Beverages Division

Swire Beverages

Swire Beverages has the franchise to manufacture, market and distribute products of The Coca-Cola Co. in Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as part of 11 states in the USA and seven provinces in Mainland China. This represents a total franchise population of over 420 million. Swire Beverages is recognised as one of a select group of strategic business partners of The Coca-Cola Co. known as the 'Anchor Bottlers'. Swire also works closely with The Coca-Cola Co. on brand development and marketing.

The relationship with Coca-Cola began in 1965 with the acquisition of a majority shareholding in the Hong Kong franchise, a business known today as Swire Coca-Cola HK Ltd. Swire Pacific acquired the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Salt Lake City in 1978. The following year saw the historic first consignment of bottled Coca-Cola for sale in Mainland China in the cities of Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai.

• Swire Beverages Ltd.
  This company is a joint venture between Swire Pacific (87.5%) and The Coca-Cola Co. (12.5%). It is the principal holding company for Swire's soft drink activities in Mainland China and Hong Kong, with interests in eight bottling operations.

• Swire Coca-Cola HK Ltd
  Swire Pacific owns 87.5% of Swire Coca-Cola, which is the franchised bottler in Hong Kong for Coca-Cola and other top brands of The Coca-Cola Co. The company produces over 56 million unit cases of beverages for Hong Kong's population of almost seven million - an almost 103-fold increase over the 541,667 unit cases recorded in 1966, the first year under Swire management.

  In addition to Coca-Cola, Swire Coca-Cola also bottles Coke Zero, Coke Light, Vanilla Coke, Sprite, Fanta, the Schweppes range of soft drinks, Qoo, Minute Maid, Nestea, the Hi-C range of juices, Healthworks wellness drinks, Tian Yu Di sugarless tea as well as Powerade sport drinks and Bonaqua mineralised water. The company also distributes ready-to-drink Nescafé and Nestlé Milk Tea.