Coca-Cola Beverages Africa
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Beverage bottling |
| Founded | 2014 (by merger) |
| Headquarters | Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa[1] |
Number of locations | 35 bottling plants (2026)[2] |
Area served | Africa |
Key people | Sunil Gupta (CEO) Norton Kingwill (CFO)[2] |
| Products | The Coca-Cola Company Products Other Soft Drinks |
| Owner | The Coca-Cola Company (66.5%) Gutsche Family Investments (33.5%) |
Number of employees | 13,000+ (2026)[2] |
| Website | ccbagroup |
Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) is an authorized bottler of Coca-Cola beverages, headquartered in Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
As of 2026, the company is the 8th-largest Coca-Cola authorized bottler in the world by revenue, and the largest on the African continent, accounting for over 40% of all Coca-Cola ready-to-drink beverages sold in Africa by volume. The company's beverages service over 840,000 customer outlets across 14 countries.[2]
On 27 November 2014, SABMiller plc, The Coca-Cola Company, and GFI, controlling 80% of the Coca-Cola South African Bottling Company (Sabco), announced that they had come to terms on a merger,[3] which would be executed in two phases. The first phase took 6–9 months, and the second around 12–18 months. The merger deal made Coca-Cola Beverages Africa the largest bottler in Africa and the 10th largest in the world,[4] with annual revenue of US$3 billion.[5]
Operations
As of 2026, over 40% of CCBA's employees were based in South Africa. As of the same year, the company had over 650,000 branded coolers and around 4,300 branded vehicles.[2]
Brands that CCBA bottles include Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Stoney Ginger Beer, Powerade, Schweppes, Valpre, Appletiser, Monster Energy, Bonaqua, and Spar-letta.[6]
