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Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryBeverage
Founded1977; 47 years ago (1977) in Laconia, New Hampshire, United States
Headquarters
Bedford, New Hampshire
,
United States
Area served
United States
Key people
Mark Francoeur
(President)
ParentKirin Company
Websitewww.cokenortheast.com

The Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, formerly known as Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Northern New England, is a bottler of Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper, and Canada Dry soft drinks in the New England region as well as almost the entirety of upstate New York. The Coca-Cola Company does not own an interest, as the company is 100% owned by Japan-based Kirin Brewery, who until 2018 also owned the rights to the Moxie soft drink nationwide. [1]

History

The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Northern New England (CCNNE) was founded in Laconia, New Hampshire in 1977. Today it operates 16 distribution centers in all six New England states, as well as upstate New York. CCNNE also bottles for Cadbury-Schweppes, Rocstar Campbells and Cornucopia.[2] It has been a subsidiary of Kirin since 1988.[3]

The first bottling agreement between Coca-Cola and an independent bottler was in 1899 between the company and two young attorneys from Chattanooga. After being joined by a John T. Lupton, they divided their bottling rights among territories in the States. As a result, efficiency and bottle quality improved. By 1909, Coca-Cola had almost 400 bottling operations, however; most of them were family-owned bottling plants. In October 2019 CCNNE was renamed Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast.[4]

Products

Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast bottles and/or distributes products from The Coca-Cola Company, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Nestlé, and Campbell's.[5] There are over 350 varieties of flavours, sizes and packages. The product categories that CCNNE use are Sparkling soft drinks (e.g. Coca-Cola), Still beverages (e.g. Powerade) and Emerging brands (e.g. Glaceau Vitamin Water).

Sparkling soft drinks
Still beverages
Emerging brands

Notes

  1. ^ Moffat, Anne Riley (28 August 2018). "Coke Inks Deal to Buy Moxie, the Official Soft Drink of Maine". Bloomberg.
  2. ^ "CCNNE - History". Archived from the original on 2011-03-08. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
  3. ^ Nh -based Company Buys Coca-cola Bottling Distributor
  4. ^ "Who We Are". Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast. Archived from the original on 2020-03-09. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  5. ^ "CCNNE Company Database Profile". Archived from the original on 2011-08-13. Retrieved 2011-03-26.

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