Coca-Cola FEMSA announcement

 

 

 

Mexico City, Mexico – October 18, 2011 – Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: KOFL; NYSE: KOF) (“Coca-Cola FEMSA” or the “Company”), the largest public bottler of Coca-Cola products in the world in terms of sales volume, informs its investors that on October 10, 2011, Compañía Internacional de Bebidas, S.A. de C.V. (“CIBSA”), which owns 53.726% of the shares of the Company, and Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. (“FEMSA”), which directly or indirectly owns all the representative shares of the capital stock of CIBSA, signed a shareholders’ agreement with Mr. Herman Harris Fleishman Cahn and Mr. Robert Alan Fleishman Cahn pursuant to which they will be elected as director and alternate director, respectively, of the board of directors of the Company for  six consecutive one-year terms.  The shareholders’ agreement is available for review at the Company’s offices.

 

 

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Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A.B. de C.V. produces and distributes Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Del Valle, and other trademark beverages of The Coca-Cola Company in Mexico (a substantial part of central Mexico, including Mexico City, as well as parts of southeast and northeast Mexico), Guatemala (Guatemala City and surrounding areas), Nicaragua (nationwide), Costa Rica (nationwide), Panama (nationwide), Colombia (most of the country), Venezuela (nationwide), Brazil (greater São Paulo, Campiñas, Santos, the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, part of the state of Goias, and part of the state of Minas Gerais), and Argentina (federal capital of Buenos Aires and surrounding areas), along with bottled water, juices, teas, isotonics, beer, and other beverages in some of these territories. The Company has 34 bottling facilities in Latin America and serves more than to 1,600,000 retailers in the region.