Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast

The Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, formerly known as Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Northern New England, is a bottler of Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper, and Canada Dry soft drinks in the New England region as well as almost the entirety of upstate New York. The Coca-Cola Company does not own an interest, as the company is 100% owned by Japan-based Kirin Brewery, who until 2018 also owned the rights to the Moxie soft drink nationwide.^[1]

Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Beverage
Founded	1977; 48 years ago (1977) in Laconia, New Hampshire, United States
Headquarters	Bedford, New Hampshire , United States
Area served	United States
Key people	Mark Francoeur (President)
Parent	Kirin Company
Website	www.cokenortheast.com

History

The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Northern New England (CCNNE) was founded in Laconia, New Hampshire in 1977. Today it operates 16 distribution centers in all six New England states, as well as upstate New York. It has been a subsidiary of Kirin since 1988.^[2]

The first bottling agreement between Coca-Cola and an independent bottler was in 1899 between the company and two young attorneys from Chattanooga. After being joined by a John T. Lupton, they divided their bottling rights among territories in the States. As a result, efficiency and bottle quality improved. By 1909, Coca-Cola had almost 400 bottling operations, most family-owned. In October 2019 CCNNE was renamed Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast.^[3]

Products

Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast bottles and/or distributes products from The Coca-Cola Company, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Nestlé, and Campbell's.^[4] There are over 350 varieties of flavours, sizes and packages. The product categories that CCNNE use are Sparkling soft drinks (e.g. Coca-Cola), Still beverages (e.g. Powerade) and Emerging brands (e.g. Glaceau Vitamin Water).

Sparkling soft drinks

• Coca-Cola
• Coca-Cola Zero
• Diet Coke
• Sprite (soft drink) Lemon-Lime
• Barq's Rootbeer
• Fanta Fruit Flavored Soft Drinks
• Fresca Sparkling Citrus
• Dr Pepper Spicy Cherry
• Sunkist (soft drink) Orange
• Canada Dry Ginger Ale

Still beverages

• Powerade Mountain Blast, Fruit Punch, Orange
• Bottled Waters Dasani, Evian, SmartWater
• Minute Maid Orange, Apple, Lemonade
• Tea Drinks Gold Peak Tea, Nestea

Emerging brands

• Full Throttle (drink) Original
• Glacéau Vitamin Water Power C, XXX, Revive
• Orangina
• NOS (drink) Energy Drink