The Coca‑Cola Company is a global nonalcoholic beverage manufacturer headquartered in Atlanta, USA. It develops and owns brands such as Coca‑Cola, Coca‑Cola Zero Sugar, Sprite, Fanta, and Minute Maid, and licenses them across more than 200 countries.
The company operates a franchise bottling system: it produces beverage bases and syrups and sells them to independent and company‑owned bottlers that manufacture, package, and distribute finished drinks. Through this system, Coca‑Cola is a major purchaser of packaging materials—including PET and recycled PET (rPET), aluminum, glass, closures, labels, and secondary packaging—as well as process inputs such as carbon dioxide, sweeteners, and food‑grade additives.
From a chemicals and materials perspective, Coca‑Cola influences global demand for PET and rPET and collaborates across the value chain on collection, recycling, lightweighting, refillables, and design‑for‑recycling. Its packaging strategy targets 100% recyclable packaging and higher recycled content, and it supports initiatives to collect and recycle a bottle or can for each one sold by 2030.
