Question

The location of major production facilities for Coca-Cola company, and the reasoning for those locations. (Both in the US and oversea)

Answer 1

Globally, the Coca-Cola system has more than 900 bottling and manufacturing facilities. This facilities are located al over the world at different locations and serves the purpose of quick delivery of Coca-Cola products.

The few of major facilities of Coca-Cola are:

• Northampton, Massachusetts
• Waco, Texas.
• Greater Noida, U.P., India
• Coca-Cola Works, Winchester
• Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation, Cincinnati
• Dixie Bottling Plant ,Atlanta
• Varanasi, India
• Keri Juice Manufacturing Plant, New Zealand
• Coca-Cola, Shijiazhuang, China etc.

Coca-Cola is a giant in the beverages industry and thus it has number of manufacturing plants located all over the world.

The reason for the location of these plants is:

• Presence all over the world provides strategic importance to Coca-Cola as a company.
• The products can be delivered efficiently.
• The transportation cost would be cheaper.
• The availability of raw materials.
• Setting up a plant near major markets gives you an edge to act according to demand and respond quickly thus reducing the total operational costs.
• The used bottles can be brought back quickly to the production facility will also save cost.
• Delivery of fresh products to the market, etc.