New plant to bottle Coca-Cola opens in Jiangxi |
| Date Added: September 24, 2009 07:13:01 AM |
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| Hu Xian, Mayor of Nanchang, Muhtar Kent, chairman and chief executive officer of The Coca-Cola Company, Hong Lihe, Vice Governor of Jiangxi province and Frank Ning, Chairman of COFCO Limited, opened the plant in Nanchang together June 23, 2009. June 23, (Xinhua) -- A bottling plant, the 37th Throttle valve facility to bottle Coca-Cola products in China, opened in eastern Jiangxi Province Tuesday. Costing 100 million yuan (14.3 million U.S. dollars), Non-return valve the COFCO Coca-Cola Beverages (Jiangxi) Co., Ltd. is due to create 424 new jobs and an additional 4,000 jobs with local suppliers. The plant has an annual capacity of almost 500 million bottles, and will serve 44 million people in the province. The plant will bottle Coca-Cola products. The annual per capita consumption of Coca-Cola products in Jiangxi is seven bottles. The China average is 28 bottles. The 147,000-square-metre facility of China National Cereals, Oils & Foodstuffs Imp. & Exp. Corp. (COFCO) Coca-Cola Beverage Ltd., a 65 percent -to-35 percent joint venture established in 2000 between COFCO and Coca-Cola, is in the Xiaolan Economic Development Zone of Nanchang City. |
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