Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA)

Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) is a recently merged private entity, which is a manufacturer, bottler and distributor of non-alcoholic beverages, subsidiary of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) and bottler for The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC). CCBSA operates across South Africa and supplies its products to various customers ranging from large retailers to small traders. We employ approximately 7500 people across the country and the company is head quartered in Gauteng, Ekurhuleni. We aim to build a strong and sustainable business that delivers consistent performance over time and support the long-term prosperity not only of our company but the country as well. We create greater shared opportunity for the business as well as the communities we serve across the value chain and across the country through job creation, skills development, and support for small-to-medium sized enterprises. In 2018 we committed to transforming R3.9 billion of our preferential procurement to benefit black owned businesses. The commitment was to transform R1.3 billion annually from 2018 to end of 2020. At end of 2019 (year 2), we had already transformed R4.6 billion, exceeding our combined target for the two years by R2 billion. We are in our final year of this commitment and confident that we will meet this year’s target of R1.3 billion. Through the company’s Mintirho Foundation, we set aside a R400 million fund towards the development of black emerging farmers and R227 million has be disbursed. We have committed over R20 million towards small businesses in townships across the country, including training. CCBSA is and remains fully committed to contributing to the growth and success of the South African economy. Annually we invest approximately R1.5bn in capital expenditure.