Coca-Cola Amatil (Aust) Pty Ltd 71 Circular Quay East Sydney   NSW   2000 GPO Box 145 Sydney   NSW   2000 Tel:  61 2 9259 6666 Fax:  61 2 9259 6623

Coca-Cola Amatil was formed following a major re-organisation in 1989 of Amatil Limited, one of Australia’s oldest corporations.  In 1989/1990 Coca-Cola Amatil sold it’s interests in poultry, tobacco, communications and packaging, leading to a concentration on its core businesses of beverages and snack foods.

The involvement of Coca-Cola Amatil in the beverages industry dates back to 1964 with the company’s acquisition of Shelleys and Marchant in Australia.  In 1965, the company bought an interest in Coca-Cola Bottlers in Perth.  A year later the company took control of the Perth operation, and acquired Coca-Cola Bottlers in Melbourne.  Over the next 25 years, Amatil acquired Coca-Cola Bottlers in Geelong, Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle and Port Macquarie.

In 1982 Amatil made its first beverages investment overseas with the acquisition of Coca-Cola bottling franchises in Vienna and Graz, Austria.  In 1993 Coca-Cola Amatil sold its snack foods interests to United Biscuits and, as a result, now focuses entirely on beverages.  Coca-Cola Amatil rapidly expanded its global business to include operations in many European and Asia-Pacific countries.  In 1998 the European operations were established as a separate European Headquartered anchor bottler company (Coca-Cola Beverages Plc) and Coca-Cola Amatil now focuses exclusively on the Asia-Pacific region.

Today, Coca-Cola Amatil is a major Australian Multinational Company.  It is the country’s largest manufacturer and distributor of soft drinks and other alcohol-free beverages, and is the market leader in the industry.

With operations in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and South Korea, Coca-Cola Amatil is the largest bottler of Coca-Cola trademarked products in the Asia-Pacific region.

Today, there are seven bottling plants in Australia, all owned by CCA following the acquisition of the Northern Territory plant in 2005.  These authorised Bottlers are supported in their marketing activities by Coca-Cola South Pacific, the local subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company.

New South Wales

South Australia

Production of Coca-Cola moved to the current Thebarton plant in 1952. Sixty people started with the company in that first year producing 770,000 unit cases. In addition to carbonated soft drinks, Coca-Cola Amatil (SA) supplies hot fill products such as POWERaDE, Growers Choice and Fruit Box fruit juices for the Australian market. In total, the South Australian operation produced 28 million, 271 thousand cases of soft drink at the end of 1999.

Victoria

The Moorabbin (Melbourne) plant has five production lines which operates three shifts over 24 hours, five days of the week. The production facility manufactures 35 million unit cases of soft drink per year, filling cans at 1,000 per minute, 390ml PET bottles at 900 per minute and 1.25L PET bottles at 600 bottles per minute.

Queensland

Coca-Cola Amatil (QLD) moved to its current site in Richlands (Brisbane) in 1994 after 40 years of operation in Fortitude Valley. The A$78 million state-of-the-art facility at Richlands has five production lines filling over 150 million PET bottles and 230 million aluminium cans with 65 million unit cases of soft drink each year.

Western Australia

Coca-Cola Amatil (WA)’s site is located in Kewdale (Perth) housing four production lines as well as warehousing, sales and administration. The plant operates 24 hours per day and wills over 142 million cans and 95 million PET bottles each year.

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