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Bottling arm of Coca-Cola India eyes $2.5-billion sales

The company has 19 bottling plants servicing two million retail outlets across 25 states in India

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Viveat Susan Pinto Mumbai
Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB), the bottling unit of Coca-Cola India, on Monday said it was aiming a turnover of $2.5 billion (Rs 16,250 crore) by 2020. 

The company, which currently has a top line of around Rs 8,500 crore, has 19 bottling plants servicing two million retail outlets across 25 states in India.

The company said it was strengthening its sales and supply-chain functions, manufacturing a wider range of beverages from premium to value, and merging the existing alternate beverages division into mainstream distribution to achieve its new turnover target.

HCCB, led by its first woman CEO, Christina Ruggiero, also said it was

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