Coca Cola Bottling Manufacturer (Dongguan) Co., Ltd, one of the world top 500 enterprises, signed an agreement with Wuhan Food Processing Zone to invest RMB 700 million Yuan for the production of series of non-soda beverage, which is the first production base for non-soda beverage of Coca Cola set up in Wuhan. It is reported that the project occupies 162 mu, with construction area 42700m2, mainly produces the fruit juice beverage and tea beverage such as Cool, Minute Maid, Health Workshop. It also cans Nestle coffee series beverage for Nestle China Co., Ltd. There are four production lines totally for this project, two aseptic bottling ones at the first stage, with RMB 300M Yuan for equipment investment, and the other two ones will be launched at the second stage. The project shall be formally put into production before Jan. 31, 2009, it is forecasted that the total sales amount can reach RMB 450M Yuan in the year put into production, with tax revenue RMB 23M Yuan. The sales amount shall reach RMB 630M Yuan by 2010, with tax revenue over RMB 40M Yuan.
Coca Cola Bottling Manufacturer (Dongguan) Co., Ltd is a foreign-funded enterprise solely operated by Coco Cola (China) Investment Co., Ltd, with annual capacity 950000 tons. In 2007, its total sales volume exceeded 180M standard boxes.