PETpla.net Insider 04 / 2014

EDITOUR REPORT 15 PET planet insider Vol. 15 No. 04/14 www.petpla.net May 9, 2013 Andina Rio de Janeiro Refrescos Ltda. We met: Andre Braga, Production Director Sopro/TPM Ana Carolina Almeida, Industrial Supervisor Paulo Roberto Villas, Head of Corporate Packaging - supply chain, Coca Cola Brasil 22 years of bottling soft drinks for Coca Cola We are staying in Rio de Janerio and visiting Coca Cola Andina. Having learnt a huge amount about the market and the Coca Cola system at the Coca Cola Brazil HQ, we are now about to see what happens in prac- tice. Paulo Roberto Villas is also with us at this meeting. Andina, a Chilean bever- age company quoted on the stock exchange, is active in Chile, Argentina, Para- guay and Brazil. 80% of the company’s principal business activities relate to the bot- tling and distribution of Coca Cola soft drinks as franchise partners plus other beverages such as fruit juices, mineral water, beer, ready-to-drink juices and energy drinks, some of which are also manu- factured and distributed under Coca Cola trademarks. The arrival of Embotel- ladora Andina S.A. on the Brazilian market came about with the acquisition of the Coca Cola bottler Rio de Janeiro Refrescos S.A. in 1994. It is in this plant in Taquara Rio de Janeiro that we find ourselves today. The company also has a second bottling plant on the east coast in a different Fed- eral State.Here we are to meet the person responsible for pro- duction, Mr Andre Braga. The bottling section is dominated by Coca Cola soft drinks, which are bottled in cans, glass and PET bottles. The bottling volume at the plant is approxi- mately 1.3 billion l/year. Andre Braga Coca Cola Andina (right) and Waldemar Schmitke in front of a bottling line for 2l PET bottles 2014