Coca-Cola HBC AG Appoints Naya Kalogeraki as Chief Operating Officer, Effective September 1, 2020
July 07, 2020 at 11:45 am EDT
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Coca-Cola HBC AG announced that the Nomination Committee of its Board of Directors has appointed Naya Kalogeraki to serve in the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer, effective September 1, 2020. She will report to Zoran Bogdanovic, Coca-Cola HBC's CEO. In her new role, Kalogeraki will be central to driving strategy execution, high performance and people development. The Company's two Regional Directors, the Group Commercial Director and the General Managers of the three largest markets - Nigeria, Italy and Russia - will report directly to the COO. The appointment of a COO will allow Bogdanovic, who has served as CEO since 2017 and is a member of the Board of Directors, greater focus on the long term strategic direction of the business, the development of capabilities for the future and the Company's ESG agenda. Naya Kalogeraki joined the Coca-Cola system in 1996. Naya held a variety of leadership roles on a country level including serving as Commercial Director and Country General Manager of the Company's operations in Greece and Cyprus. She also served as Director of Strategy, CEO Office and was appointed Group Chief Commercial and Customer Officer and a member of the Company's Operating Committee in 2016.
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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