History
Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. is a spin off from The Coca-Cola Company. In 1986 the purpose was consolidating the many independent bottling groups in the Coca-Cola System. Previously, independent businesses in small geographic areas, generally a central city or town and its hinterland, bottled Coca-Cola products and distributed these to stores. The Coca-Cola Co. headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, began to buy up these bottlers in 1980 and then spun this function off to anchor bottlers in various parts of the world. The company has its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia and is separate from The Coca-Cola Company.
Similar anchor bottlers are the South Pacific area's Coca-Cola Amatil, Eastern Europe's Coca-Cola Hellenic, and Latin America's Coca-Cola FEMSA.
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