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Well, Coke has a strategy of outsourcing everything and simply having it produced.
I don't know HBC exactly, I just know that they are represented here in Austria. Over the years, they have closed their stores and then reopened and closed them again....
...I just think that if Coke were to say, we don't need you any more, we have someone else, the question is whether they will continue to bottle for other customers or whether they will have to close, as Coke can/could actually determine and dictate the price.
I don't know HBC exactly, I just know that they are represented here in Austria. Over the years, they have closed their stores and then reopened and closed them again....
...I just think that if Coke were to say, we don't need you any more, we have someone else, the question is whether they will continue to bottle for other customers or whether they will have to close, as Coke can/could actually determine and dictate the price.
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@BoersePG No, that's not quite how it works 😅
They can dictate to HBC, Femsa or European what the standards must be, but the rest is handled by the respective independent companies.
It's almost impossible to just close down an entire company.
They can dictate to HBC, Femsa or European what the standards must be, but the rest is handled by the respective independent companies.
It's almost impossible to just close down an entire company.
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@Der_Dividenden_Monteur As I wrote, I don't know the structure. I just think so. There are also a few cases in the trade when, for example, they produce those products for you and then tell you that they no longer want them. It almost happened to us in Carinthia.
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@BoersePG I understand what you mean, but I only know the Coke side and I know that the licenses are awarded over decades.
Would you explain the case in Carinthia?
Would you explain the case in Carinthia?
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@Der_Dividenden_Monteur was a very long time ago.
Somehow it was a similar structure to HBC (please don't pin me down) but I found an old article about it by chance.
However, there was talk of closing the bottler because it would have lost one major customer.
https://ktnv1.orf.at/stories/301743
Somehow it was a similar structure to HBC (please don't pin me down) but I found an old article about it by chance.
However, there was talk of closing the bottler because it would have lost one major customer.
https://ktnv1.orf.at/stories/301743
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