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Coca-Cola Enterprises is a marketer, producer, and distributor of Coca-Cola products. It is the anchor bottler for Western Europe, and was formerly the anchor bottler for most of North America. Coca-Cola Enterprises' products include Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite, Fanta, Capri-Sun, Chaudfontaine, Schweppes, Monster and Relentless.〔 == History == In 1980, Coca-Cola acquired the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New York for $215 million.〔(Coca-cola Buys Own Bottling Firm )〕 In 1982, Coca-Cola acquired the Associated Coca-Cola Bottling Company for $417.5 million.〔(A $417.5 MILLION OFFER BY COCA-COLA FOR BOTTLER )〕 In 1986, Coca-Cola acquired the bottling operations of Beatrice Foods and the bottling operations of the Lupton family.〔(Coca-Cola to Pay 1 Billion for Bottling Plants in US and Canada )〕 Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. was spun off from The Coca-Cola Company in 1986.〔(Financial Times "Coca-Cola has tended to keep its bottlers at arm’s length" )〕 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. Coca-Cola headquarters 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; both companies are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and are components of the S&P 500. 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coca-Cola Enterprises」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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