Anchor bottler

Anchor bottlers are a soft drink manufacturer’s major bottlers around the world.^{[clarification needed]} For example, The Coca-Cola Company employed the strategy of "anchor bottlers" to penetrate markets like China, Eastern Europe and Russia.

Notable anchor bottlers include:

• Coca-Cola Refreshments USA, subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company, the company's anchor bottler for the North American market.
• Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, spun out by The Coca-Cola Company in 1986^[1] and now covering^[2] Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, as a result of a three-way combination completed on May 28, 2016, of the former Coca-Cola Enterprises, the Coca-Cola bottler covering Spain and Portugal and the Coca-Cola bottler in Germany.^[3]
• Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company ("CCHBC") formed from the de-merger of Coca-Cola Amatil's eastern European interests into Coca-Cola Beverages and that company's subsequent merger with the Hellenic Bottling Company, now covering^[4] 29 countries in central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Nigeria and Egypt.
• Coca-Cola Amatil covering^[2] Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea;
• Coca-Cola Icecek ("CCI") covering Turkey; Middle Eastern (Iraq, Jordan, Syria), Central Asian (Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan) and South Asian (Pakistan & Bangladesh) regions
• Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines, Inc., covering the Philippines
• The Pepsi Beverages subsidiary of PepsiCo is the company's anchor bottler for the North American market.
• The bottling subsidiary of Dr Pepper Snapple, formerly the Dr Pepper/Seven Up Bottling Group, is the anchor bottler for most of the company's soda brands in the US.
• Carlsberg Breweries, which in 2001 took over^[5] part of the Scandinavian market from Coca-Cola Nordic Beverages after Orkla and Carlsberg A/S merged their beverages operations,^[6] while Coca-Cola took over Swedish and Norwegian activities and the Icelandic factory was sold to local investors.^[5]
• Swire covering the Greater China region.^[7]