One of our great strengths is our ability to conduct business on a worldwide scale while maintaining a local approach. At the heart of this approach is our bottling system.

Before any one of our nearly 400 brands is consumed by anybody around the world, it has to be produced, packaged and distributed. Since we reach six billion consumers in over 200 countries, our bottling system is the heart of our business.

Our bottling partners are local companies - some independently owned, some partially owned by The Coca-Cola Company - so they are rooted in their communities, thinking and acting locally. They are employers, purchasers of local goods and services, good neighbors, and, of course, producers of the world's most popular beverages.

Bringing beverages to people all over the world is a big job, and sometimes it's done quite creatively. In Indonesia, for instance, boats transport Coca-Cola® and our other brands between the many hundreds of islands that make up that nation. In the Amazon, where the main road is often the river itself, transportation by water is also common. In some of the higher elevations of the Andes, Coca-Cola is sometimes transported by four-legged power. Across much of Africa, bottlers deliver to thousands of family-run kiosks and home-based stores upon which local economies depend.

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