Coca-Cola Amatil Limited (CCA) was an Australian bottler of non-alcoholic beverages that existed from 1904 to 2021, when it merged with Coca-Cola European Partners to form

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. It was one of the largest bottlers of non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages in the Asia-Pacific region and one of the world's five major

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bottlers. CCA operated in six countries—Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Samoa. The company also bottled beer and coffee.

Products

CCA's diversified portfolio of products included carbonated soft drinks,

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s and energy drinks,

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, coffee, tea and alcohol. Coca-Cola Amatil distributed a number of sparkling, still and other non-alcoholic beverages. Some of these include:

Water

* Mount Franklin Water * Pump * Neverfail * Peats Ridge Pure *

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(Indonesia) * Aquarius Water * Kiwi Blue (New Zealand) * Pure Drop (New Zealand) * Nature's Own Water (Papua New Guinea)

Non-alcoholic beverages

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* Leed * Sprite *

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* Deep Spring *

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* Glaceau Vitamin Water *

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* e2 *

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* Lift plus * Kiwi Blue * Keri Juice * Rose's Cordial Lemon * Fuze Tea * Barista Bros

Alcoholic beverages

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* Knob Creek *

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* Vox * Vodka O *

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Old Crow Old Crow is a low-priced brand of Kentucky-made straight bourbon whiskey distilled by Beam Suntory, which also produces Jim Beam and several other brands of whiskey. The current Old Crow product uses the same mash bill and yeast as Jim Beam, but ...

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* Galliano *

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* Pressman's Cider *

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* Arvo *

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* Blue Moon *

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Beer & cider

* Blue Moon * Coors *

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* Pressman's Apple Cider * Rekorderlig * Vailima * Yenda Brewing Company

Hot beverages

* Grinders Coffee * Romanza coffee * FIX Coffee

Countries served

As at December 2014, Coca-Cola Amatil employed 14,700 people in six countries across the Asia-Pacific region.Annual Report for Year Ended 31 December 2014
Coca-Cola Amatail The company is the bottler of Coca-Cola products in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Samoa.

Ownership

Coca-Cola Amatil was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange; however,

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has a 30.8% shareholding in Coca-Cola Amatil, as it does with each of its primary or "anchor" bottlers in the worldwide Coca-Cola system. At the same time, Coca-Cola Amatil is joint owner with The Coca-Cola Company of Coca-Cola Bottling Indonesia (CCBI).

History

The company's Australian origins date back to 1904 as the tobacco company British Tobacco (Australia). Its first foray into soft drinks came in 1964 with the purchase of Coca-Cola Bottlers (

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), and the company was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1972. Soft drinks and snack foods gradually became the primary focus of the company, and was renamed Allied Manufacturing and Trade Industries Limited in 1973 and Amatil Limited in 1977. It began to expand bottling operations overseas in Europe, purchasing a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Australia in 1982 and expanding into Fiji and New Zealand in 1987. A majority stake was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company in 1989, although today its ownership is 29%. In 1989, the company sold its WD & HO Wills tobacco division to British American Tobacco. The snack food operations were sold in 1992, and European operations were spun off into a new company, Coca-Cola Beverages, in 1998. Expansion into Asia continued, though Filipino bottling was eventually sold to

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and parent The Coca-Cola Company. Coca-Cola Amatil's group managing director is Alison Watkins, and the board chairman is Ilana Atlas. CCA has facilities all over Australia, with key sites at Northmead (NSW), North Sydney (NSW), Richlands (QLD),

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(VIC) and Hazelmere (WA). CCA announced on 22 February 2017 that it would be closing the Thebarton site on Port Road early in 2019 as there was no space to expand it, and expanding the Richlands site in Queensland. From 2006 to 2011, CCA had a joint venture (named Pacific Beverages) with SABMiller to distribute its drinks in Australia. In 2011, SABMiller acquired

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and full ownership of Pacific Beverages; in exchange, Foster's sold its Fiji and Samoa operations to Coca-Cola Amatil in 2012. In May 2021, CCA was acquired by Coca-Cola European Partners for A$9.8 billion, forming the new largest Coca-Cola bottling firm

Container deposit schemes

Coca-Cola Amatil opposed proposals for Northern Territory and Western Australian container deposit schemes between 2011 and 2013. Former West Australian treasurer

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claimed that Coca-Cola offered to fund her political opponents (the

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), to oppose a container deposit scheme, a claim the company strongly denied. In 2013, Coca-Cola Amatil joined with

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and Lion in a legal challenge against the

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's 'Cash for Containers' recycling scheme arguing it breached Australia's Mutual Recognition Act 1992. This Act creates a legal requirement that "goods produced in or imported into the first State, that may lawfully be sold in that State... (may) be sold in the second State." Beverage companies argued that the recently introduced Cash for Containers scheme, which doubled recycling rates to 30% in the Northern Territory in the limited time it operated, hindered this right by requiring the company to implement different production processes for the same product in different states and territories. The Federal Court ruled in favour of the beverage companies. The ruling created a public backlash with hostile posts on Coca-Cola's Facebook page and calls for a boycott. Coca-Cola Amatil argued that the Cash for Containers scheme was ineffective and costly suggesting a "National Bin Network" as an alternative solution. The

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found the economic cost of a national container deposit scheme would be between $1.4 and $1.76 billion; however, research undertaken by the Boomerang Alliance in 2008 suggested that such a scheme would in fact bring about saving of up to $84 million. Organisations such as

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and the Boomerang Alliance supported the initiative as an addition to Cash for Containers, but argued that if used alone it would make a comparatively insignificant difference to recycling rates. Former Northern Territory Chief Minister, Terry Mills, stated that he would continue to fight against Coca-Cola for Cash for Containers and called on other States and Territories to support the Scheme.

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