Coca-Cola FEMSA
Coca-Cola FEMSA is the anchor bottler of Coca-Cola and its related soft drink products in much of Latin America. The company is an important part of the Coca-Cola System.
Coca-Cola FEMSA distributes about 10% of the worldwide production of Coca-Cola products. This makes it, after Coca-Cola Enterprises the second largest Coca-Cola bottler in the world. The company is owned 45.7% by FEMSA, which is a Mexican brewer, 39.6% by the Coca-Cola Company and the remaining interest trades on the New York Stock Exchange and the Mexico City Stock Exchange. The company is headquartered in Mexico City.
The company is the bottler of Coca-Cola in most of central Mexico including Mexico City, the Buenos Aires region of Argentina, Sao Paulo and other areas of Brazil, greater Guatemala City, Guatemala, most of Colombia, and all of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela. This represents 40% of the population of Latin America.
In 2003 the company distributed 1.8 billion unit cases of soft drinks. A unit case is 28 8 oz servings. The company also distributes beer and bottled water in some of its territories.
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