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Coca-Cola moving from Lakeland to Winter Haven and adding 172 jobs
WINTER HAVEN Coca-Cola Beverages Florida is expanding its local presence and jumping from Lakeland to Winter Haven, adding 170 Polk County jobs.
Coca-Cola has a distribution center in Lakeland at 1770 Interstate Drive, off Kathleen Road just south of I-4. That center employs 182 people, said Bruce Lyon, president of the Winter Haven Economic Development Council. And according to the Coca-Cola website, the center distributes 5.3 million cases of Coca-Cola annually.
But that space doesn t suit the company anymore. Our current location doesn t allow us the space that we need for our operations there, so we are looking for a larger location, Katrinda McQueen, director of communications for Coca-Cola Beverages Florida LLC, said. We have been in Polk County for quite some time, so we were simply looking for opportunities in Polk County to expand our footprint.
DIY Penguin Plunge raises $389,000 for Special Olympics
Portsmouth Herald
HAMPTON For the first time in more than two decades, the water temperature at Hampton Beach for Penguin Plunge weekend was irrelevant.
This year’s event to raise funds for Special Olympics New Hampshire (SONH) was a do it yourself plunge. Plungers were tasked with finding their own water source and location to plunge anytime between Feb. 3 and Feb. 7th.
With a nod to Dr. Seuss, the theme was “Oh The Places We’ll Go,” owing to the fact that participants could take their plunge anywhere they wanted to as long as it was safe to do so.
Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) will increase the stake held by employees and black empowerment investors in the company to 20%, it said on Friday.
By Reuters Staff
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) will increase the stake held by employees and black empowerment investors in the company to 20%, it said on Friday, in a bid to meet merger conditions laid out by competition authorities.
Bottles of Coca-Cola are displayed at a supermarket.
REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
In 2014, the Coca-Cola Company and SABMiller Plc reached an agreement with the majority shareholder of a company which bottled Coca-Cola’s products to combine the bottling operations of their non-alcoholic beverages businesses in Southern and East Africa, which led to the creation of CCBSA’s parent company.