KARACHI: CCI Pakistan, Coca-Cola’s bottler in Pakistan set up its Greenfield bottling plant in Faisalabad with the investment of $45 million.

The facility is CCI Pakistan’s 6th plant in the country and CCI’s 26th in the region. The new plant in Faisalabad comprises of CCI’s fastest and highest capacity PET lines and will add 450 million litres to the company’s volume annually.

CCI Pakistan has a total of 25 production lines, 530+ distributors and more 330,000 sales points and is catering to a consumer base of 208 million people. In the last 10 years CCI Pakistan has almost doubled its market share.

Speaking at the occasion Tuncay Özilhan, chairman Anadolu Group and Coca-Cola stated, “I am extremely proud to be here today for the opening of CCI’s Faisalabad Greenfield Plant. When we decided to invest in Pakistan back in 2006, we were very confident about the future of this nation. And today I’m pleased to see how our combined efforts have materialized and brought us such a long way in these last 12 years.

We continue to expand our investment and business in Pakistan, as is evident from this project being inaugurated today. Knowing Pakistan’s friendly and hardworking people, trusting Pakistan’s talented workforce and promising youth and fascinated by the very rich and diverse culture of this nation, I can, once again, affirm my belief in the future of this country.”—PR