Coca-Cola HBC AG Appoints Ben Almanzar as Chief Financial Officer with Effect from 1 April 2021
October 21, 2020 at 12:00 pm EDT
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Coca-Cola HBC AG announced that Ben Almanzar will join the Company in the first quarter of 2021 and will be appointed Group Chief Financial Officer with effect from 1 April 2021. Ben Almanzar has a proven track record and broad experience gained from senior financial positions in the global FMCG industry. He spent the past ten years with Mars Incorporated, including as Regional CFO, Europe & Southern Africa and most recently as Vice President, Financial Planning, Analytics and Financial Strategy. As Group Chief Financial Officer, Ben will be based at the Company's head office in Zug, Switzerland and will lead Coca-Cola HBC's finance organization with group-wide responsibility for accounting, treasury, financial planning, tax and investor relations.
Coca-Cola HBC AG is is one of the world's leading producers and bottlers of non-alcoholic beverages (soft drinks and mineral waters). In 2023, the group provided 2,835.5 million beverage cases. Net sales break down by country as follows:
- emerging countries (46.5%): Nigeria, Romania, Bulgaria, Armenia, Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Ukraine, etc.;
- industrialized countries (33%): Italy, Greece, Ireland, Austria, and Switzerland;
- developing countries (20.5%): Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Baltic States, Croatia, Slovenia and Slovakia.
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