Coca-Cola plans expansion in Pakistan

[Hamartia Antidote]

Doesn't the Zero one's have cancer causing substances?

Aspartame deemed safe by European Union regulators  - NY Daily News
Aspartame

 

[qamar1990]

.....and obesity !

economic imperialism as well.
what ever happened to pakola?

 

[Kompromat]

Pakola is still available here in Australia.

 

[Zarvan]

Pakola is still available here in Australia.

What is Pakola ?

 

[Capt.Popeye]

It happening because of people like me who drink two to three half litters bottle in a day

COKE is a Zionist owned and controlled Corpn. Check with the Arab Boycott Office in Damascus before drinking it and adding to the Zionist coffers.

Caffeine-free Coke Zero for me (zero calories, zero caffeine).

THERE ARE NO ZEROS IN ANY COKE...........of anything.
The only Zeros are in the billions of Dollars in Coke's revenues, world-wide.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

THERE ARE NO ZEROS IN ANY COKE...........of anything.
The only Zeros are in the billions of Dollars in Coke's revenues, world-wide.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Do you REALLY believe that???
Coke is just now fighting a charge: of mis-labelling a "Pomegranate-Cranberry" juice where the "Pomegranate-Cranberry" content was found to be 0.5 %. Actually the main content has been found to be "Apple juice" in that particular drink!

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Do you REALLY believe that???
Coke is just now fighting a charge: of mis-labelling a "Pomegranate-Cranberry" juice where the "Pomegranate-Cranberry" content was found to be 0.5 %. Actually the main content has been found to be "Apple juice" in that particular drink!

It's a blend of 5 juices. Usually apple juice is the primary ingredient of all blends.

 

[Bouncer]

Good news. More jobs and more economic activity.

 

[AugenBlick]

No one seems to notice that this plant will impact directly the water resources of an already troubled Pakistan.
Soft drink plants have a massive drain on both over and under surface water resources.

 

[ali_raza]

I had my last soft drink more than 7 years back. Had Red Bull 2 times in my life.

i drink red bull daily

 

[faisal6309]

I drink Sprite. Sometimes Dew too. I hate Coca Cola and Pepsi.

 

[AugenBlick]

Coca-Cola plans expansion in Pakistan
By Reuters
CAIRO: Coca-Cola Co expects to start production in five new factories in Egypt and Pakistan over the next 18 months, seeing double-digit percentage growth in sales for both markets this year, its Middle East and North Africa president told Reuters.

Pakistan will see three new plants open in the next 18 months in Karachi, Multan and Islamabad.

“We watch the needle in Pakistan and almost every month we red-line on what our capacity is,” Curt Ferguson said, adding that he expected sales growth of around 20 per cent in Pakistan this year. “We’re just scratching the surface there.”

On Egypt, which is desperate to attract foreign direct investment after three years of political and economic turmoil, he said: “Egypt is going to be one of our key anchor countries.” He cited the country’s large and growing population as a big positive.

As part of a $500 million investment plan announced for Egypt in March, Coca-Cola will start constructing a new juice plant in 6th of October city near Cairo next year in a joint $100m dollar project with Saudi Arabia’s Aujan Coca-Cola Beverages Company.

The $500m will be spent over the next three years, Ferguson said.

The beverage group is in talks to buy a plot of land between Cairo and Alexandria to build a plant for sparkling drinks and water which should go online next year, Ferguson added.

The rest of the $500m will be used to increase production at existing plants such as its concentrate factory in Cairo, the only one of its kind in the Middle East, and to cover capital spending. —Reuters

Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2014

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Coca-Cola forced to close India bottling factory over excessive water use, pollution — RT News
Coca-Cola forced to close India bottling factory over excessive water use, pollution
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Years of protests have forced Indian officials to finally close a Coca-Cola bottling factory in the northern province of Uttar Pradesh for extracting groundwater above legal limits and polluting the environment with toxic effluents.

Coca-Cola’s Mehdiganj plant in Varanasi used to pump too much fresh water from the underground water table, a practice that has led to groundwater levels in the area dropping to critical levels. This infuriated local residents mostly employed in agriculture, who are suffering from scarce water resources.

The plant has also been accused of discharging effluents, containing excessive levels of pollutants, thus damaging the environment.

The battle to close the factory has been marked with a number of dramatic protests staged by local farmers. One protest, in 2006, lasted for over three months and culminated with a hunger strike among the local population and activists demanding the plant cease operation.

Finally, the bottling plant has been ordered to stop operation.

(FILES) In this photo Indian village women from Banaras in northern Uttar Pradesh state shout slogans as they demand the closure of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo factories due to fears over groundwater poisioning during a protest in New Delhi. (AFP Photo / Raveendran)



“The plant is closed following our orders,” Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board member secretary J.S. Yadav told AFP, specifying that Coca-Cola was ordered to replenish twice as much groundwater as it extracted and provide a permit from a government agency that regulates groundwater use, Yadav said.

Local campaigner Nandlal Master told the India Resource Center: “This is a great victory and a welcome confirmation that local communities can successfully take on big, powerful business.”

The world's largest soft drinks maker appealed the closure order to India's environment court, the National Green Tribunal, the Pollution Control Board said.

Last year, Atlanta-based Coca-Cola announced that the 15-year-old Varanasi bottling facility had been expanded and could produce 600 polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles of soft drinks per minute. With an estimated 26,500 kiloliters of beverage production per year, this used to be one of the smallest Coca-Cola factories in India.

Coca-Cola has 58 bottling factories in India, where consumption of soft drinks is swiftly growing with the expansion of the middle class. Many factories have been targeted by protests for the same reason: an excessive use of local water resources.

In early 2014, the authorities of the Uttar Pradesh province promised to demolish the Coca-Cola factory, claiming that the plant had been built on the land belonging to the local village council and therefore the construction was “illegal.”

Indian authorities have also imposed a nominal 126,000 rupee ($2,000) fine on the soft drink company over the land issue.

India’s Hindustan Coca-Cola Company Private Limited, which plans to invest $5 billion in India over the period 2012-20, has called the ruling “unprecedented” and denied allegations of destructive water usage as “misleading and false.”

AFP Photo / Dibyangshu Sarkar



“As part of the withdrawal of consent, we were not allowed or even asked to present any facts or explain our position,” the company said in a statement. “We recognize that water is critical to our business as integral to community needs and therefore we have a shared interest in the sustainability of water resources.”

Coca-Cola has encountered a similar problem in India before, at another bottling plant in Kerala, which was closed for a decade over the same accusation of depleting the local water table and dumping toxic effluent.

Though in the end a local court did rule in favor of the company, the facility has never been reopened.

 

[Areesh]

My prefered drinks are:

1 Pakola
2 Coca Cola
3 7UP
4 From Pepsi only Slice.

 

[VelocuR]

'Lime/Lemon' - Sprite or 7UP should expansion in Pakistan, not Coca-Cola or Pepsi.