Coca – Cola Beverages South Africa cleans up!
Margate Beach, September 8 – CCBSA staff tackle pollution on beaches Beginning this Friday, 8 September, Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) will be rolling up their plastic gloves as they tackle plastic and other pollution at beaches in Margate, Durban, Richards Bay, East London, Port Elizabeth, and George. This forms part of the Coastal Clean-up project […]
Top waste-busters to be unveiled at awards event
Johannesburg, 5 September, 2017 – More than half a million learners from almost 600 schools have taken a message in the bottle into their homes and communities this year as part of Coca-Cola Beverages SA’s Schools Recycling Programme. On September 27, these young environmental ambassadors will find out who came out tops at the […]
The Coca-Cola Company, SABMiller and Coca-Cola SABCO to form Coca-Cola Beverages Africa
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO), SABMiller plc (LSE:SAB, JSE:SABJ) and Gutsche Family Investments (GFI, majority shareholders in Coca-Cola Sabco) have agreed to combine the bottling operations of their non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages businesses in Southern and East Africa. The new bottler, Coca-Cola Beverages Africa, will serve 12 high-growth countries accounting for approximately 40 per cent of all […]
The Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Merger Parties and the South African Government Reach Agreement on Public Interest Conditions for Merger
A comprehensive set of commitments have been agreed between the Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) merger parties – SABMiller plc, The Coca-Cola Company and Gutsche Family Investments – and the South African Government, that will be recommended to the Competition Tribunal in connection with the proposed creation of Africa’s largest soft-drink beverage bottling operation. The commitments […]
The Coca-Cola Beverages Africa merger parties welcome Competition Tribunal Approval for formation
The Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) merger parties – SABMiller plc, The Coca-Cola Company, and Gutsche Family Investments – have welcomed the approval given by the South African Competition Tribunal, with agreed conditions, to the formation of Africa’s largest soft-drink beverage operation. The parties said the decision is an endorsement that the merger will support the […]
Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Begins Operations
Africa’s largest Coca-Cola bottler – Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) – is today celebrating its first day of operations. The company has been formed through the combination of African non-alcoholic ready-to-drink bottling interests of SABMiller plc, The Coca-Cola Company, and Gutsche Family Investments. Having received all necessary approvals, the merger parties officially completed the transaction on […]
Learners recognised with awards for their recycling efforts
The cumulative effects of the CCBSA Schools Recycling Programme are starting to mount up, and are changing mindsets of tomorrow’s citizens. Learners from Ekuthuleni Primary in Ntuzuma in KwaZulu-Natal have every reason to celebrate before their year-end results after being announced as the leading 2015 CCBSA Schools Recycling Awards recipient. These recycling champions, who collected […]
Gauteng Schools compete for the indigenous games crown
Job Maseko primary school leads the pack in indigenous games Johannesburg, 22 October 2015 – 15 Gauteng primary schools from the South, Central and Tshwane region battled it out on the playing field on Tuesday this week at Charles Baard Stadium, Brakpan, when various indigenous sporting codes including Kgati, Dithini, Dibeke and Mgusha were a centre […]
CCBSA, Free State government allocate retail business opportunities for youth entrepreneurship
Welkom, 06 November 2015 – CCBSA Bottling (Pty) Ltd has this week handed over the first of the 66 spaza shops which will be allocated to the youth of Meloding, Thabong and Kutlwanong from November 2015. As part of the immersion phase, the youth will be grouped and will co-run the CCBSA Bizniz In A Box […]
Free State giving youth entrepreneurship boost
Johannesburg – An exciting public-private partnership initiative between the Free State Provincial Government and Amalgamated Beverage Industries (CCBSA), franchised bottlers of Coca-Cola, will soon ignite youth entrepreneurship in Matjhabeng. Matjhabeng, which forms part of Lejweleputswa District, formerly the Free State Goldfields, is one of the mining towns receiving the Presidential spotlight due to a declining economy […]