mantra wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2014 at 11:20am:


Yes there are a range of issues here...

First one is wages and staff....

Two, supply of OS canned food being dumped in Australia...

Three, people here are NOT buying SPC products... the same people complaining that it may be shut down...

Four, we pay foreign aid to poor countries... billions... those governments then pay the peasant farmers a few miserable dollars from our foreign  aid to grow fruit then they need to get rid of it...

So it gets dumped in places like Australia...

So you see ... we have helped create this problem by dishing out foreign aid.... and Labor increased it by billions...

Vicious circle ...

glee wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2014 at 11:49am:


the region has received in the order of $1.2 billion of irrigation infrastructure in recent years specifically built around the fruit growing properties...

Another 1.8 Billion dollars was given to that area for flood relief a couple of years  back...

So that's 3 billion dollars in government assistance in that area in recent times...

There has to be a line drawn in the sand at some point because it seems that area is becoming welfare dependant...

How much would they want next year? And the year after that? Etc etc..

Arguments like - well, they got welfare so why shouldn't the rest of us? - and herein lies the problem...

Because all of this corporate welfare is getting headlines all over the country they are starting to line up one after the other with their hands out...

"PLEASE SIR, CAN I HAVE SOME MORE"

for goodness sake...

Governments, businesses and Australian workers must all learn to live within its means...

And if they can't.... stop blaming everyone else except yourself... take some responsibility for crying out loud 

John Smith wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2014 at 9:05am:


Not according to the starter of the thread.....guess you better tell it to pull it's head out too.

And the rest that'll come in like moronic sheep and blame Abbott.

It's really funny watching the loops pour any semblance of political and historical acumen down the drain just so they can blame Abbott.

red baron wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2014 at 2:24pm:


Nah.  It is  Australian.  Coca Cola (the multi-national) has a 29% shareholding, is all.

Aussie wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2014 at 2:25pm:


Employees
14,900

Divisions
Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, SPC Ardmona

Website
www.ccamatil.com

Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) is one of the largest bottlers of non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages in the Asia-Pacific region and one of the world’s five major Coca-Cola bottlers. CCA operates in six countries – Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Samoa.

CCA’s diversified portfolio of products includes carbonated soft drinks, spring water, sports and energy drinks, fruit juices, iced tea, flavoured milk, coffee, tea and SPC Ardmona and Goulburn Valley packaged ready-to-eat fruit and vegetable snacks and products.

CCA produces the Australian market’s number one cola brand, Coca-Cola, the number one bottled water brand, Mount Franklin and the number one sports beverage, Powerade Isotonic, and is market leader in non-sugar colas with Diet Coke and Coca-Cola Zero. Low and no-sugar beverages are a high growth part of the CCA portfolio, growing at more than three times the rate of sugar-sweetened beverages in 2012.

CCA sells and distributes a range of Beam Global premium spirits including Jim Beam, Canadian Club, Makers Mark and The Macallan. CCA also manufactures and distributes the best-selling ready-to-drink alcoholic beverage, Jim Beam & Cola. CCA owns breweries in Fiji and Samoa and a distillery in Fiji, making Fiji Bitter, Vailima beer and Bounty Rum. In December 2013, CCA will re-enter the premium beer market in Australia with a manufacturing joint venture with the Casella group.

CCA employs 14,900 people across the Group and has access to 270 million consumers through more than 700,000 active customers.



Contents  [hide]
1 Products
2 Countries served
3 Ownership
4 History
5 Coca-Cola & the Beverage Industry lobbying against Cash for Containers
6 Beverage Companies take Northern Territory Government to Court
7 References
8 External links


Products[edit]

Coca-Cola Amatil distributes a number of sparkling, still and alcoholic beverages. Some of these include:
Coca-Cola
Diet Coke
Coca-Cola Zero
Sprite
Sprite Zero
Deep Spring
Fanta
Kirks
Lift
Mother
Mount Franklin Water
Nestea
Powerade
Pump
Lift plus
Kiwi Blue
Glaceau Vitamin Water

Countries served[edit]

Coca-Cola Amatil currently employs 14,900 people in six countries across the Asia-Pacific region, and had after-tax profits of A$558.4 million in 2012 calendar year on EBIT of A$895.5 million. Its share price has consistently outperformed the ASX 200 market index over the past few years.

The company is the bottler of Coca-Cola products in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Samoa.

Ownership[edit]

Coca-Cola Amatil is an Australian company, however The Coca-Cola Company has a 29% shareholding in Coca-Cola Amatil, as it does with each of its primary or "anchor" bottlers in the worldwide Coca-Cola system.

History[edit]

The company's Australian origins date back to 1904 as the tobacco company British Tobacco (Australia). Its first foray into soft drinks came in 1964 with the purchase of Coca-Cola Bottlers (Perth), and the company was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1972.

Soft drinks and snack foods gradually became the primary focus of the company, which was renamed Amatil Limited in 1977. It began to expand bottling operations overseas in Europe, purchasing a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Australia in 1982 and expanding into Fiji and New Zealand in 1987. A majority stake was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company in 1989, although today its ownership is 29%.

The snack food operations were sold in 1992, and European operations were spun off into a new company, Coca-Cola Beverages, in 1998. Expansion into Asia continued, though Filipino bottling was eventually sold to San Miguel Brewery and parent The Coca-Cola Company.

Coca-Cola Amatil's Managing Director is Terry Davis, and the board chairman is David Gonski.

CCA has facilities all over Australia, with key sites at Northmead (NSW), North sydney (NSW), Richlands (Qld), Moorabbin (VIC), Thebarton (SA) and Kewdale (WA).

From 2006 to 2011, CCA had a joint venture (named Pacific Beverages) with SABMiller to distribute its drinks in Australia. In 2011, SABMiller acquired Foster's Group and full ownership of Pacific Beverages; in exchange, Foster's sold its Fiji and Samoa

mantra wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2014 at 11:20am:


I don't think your average Australian housewife considers the demise of Australian food production and manufacturing whilst walking the isles with the shopping list in her hand.
Why?
She's too busy comparing the prices.
Cost is the primary consideration.

adelcrow wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2014 at 4:01pm:


And the Aussie farmer has been getting driven to the poor house for only four months now eh.
Try thirty plus years, and get the blinkers off.
As to the production workers, thanks to long term effective bargaining by Unions and their Labor flunkies has ensured that our goods will never ever cost compete with an imported one, and those same goods can never cost compete on an overseas shelf next to local product.

I think you have all missed the point here.

See, killing-off the baked-bean industry is all a part of Toenail's
'Direct Action' plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

We all know that baked beans, when digested, release large quantities
of methane gas, which is what causes those thunderous 'bean farts'.

But methane also contributes to AGW, so getting rid of it is a great
initiative by Toenail, and one which should be loudly and vociferously
lauded.

And as an added benefit, the land which once held the bean farms
can now be dug up to provide a quick profit-fix for Gina & Co. Or
flogged-off to the Chinese in another classic 'sell the golden goose'
scenario.

Everybody wins (well, everybody but us average Aussies).

</sarcasm>