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Around The World: Core Values

We are committed to serving and supporting sustainable communities because our business succeeds where communities thrive. Together with our bottling partners, our business partners and members of the communities where we operate, The Coca-Cola Company works to identify and address existing and emerging social and environmental issues as well as potential solutions. Click here to learn more:Link - Around The World Core Values

Our Vision for the Future

We envision a world in which…

  • We improve lives in every community we touch.
  • We replenish each drop of water that we use
  • Our packaging is no longer seen as waste, but as a valuable resource
    for future use.
  • Workplace rights are protected and all people are respected.
  • We work in partnership with others to provide good jobs, world class quality beverages and a healthy environment

We are a local business on a global scale

  • We are local business in over 200 countries
  • We offer a portfolio of world class sparkling and still beverages, starting with Coca-Cola and extending through over 450 soft drinks, juices, teas, coffees, waters, sports and energy drinks that refresh, hydrate, nourish, relax and energize.
  • We support the basic building blocks of community development: clean water, good jobs, nutrition, education, and a healthy environment

The health of our business is directly linked to the health of the environment

  • Safe, fresh water is essential for all development.
  • Water is the “critical ingredient” not just of our beverages, but of life on our planet. We’re working to be leaders in responsible water use and replenishment in our operation.
  • Through watershed projects in communities where we operate, we are helping protect aquifers and manage watersheds for social and environmental benefit.

Through sustainable growth, we provide economic opportunities
around the world

  • Through commercial leadership consumer marketing and franchise leadership, we will deliver sustainable business growth, which will enable us to contribute to and support sustainable communities.
  • We aim to be integrally and functionally part of every community in which we operate.

What we do

  • Our products are made in the communities where they are consumed, providing local employment and adjacent business growth.
  • We're engaging in with the United Nations Foundation, USAID, the WWF and others to help ensure access to clean water for all as a vital investment in sustainable communities
  • Our business sustains nearly 1 million jobs in communities around the world with a “multiplier effect” that creates 10 more jobs for each one in our system.

For more information about our citizenship initiatives, please visit us at www.thecoca-colacompany.com/citizenship.


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