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THE world’s biggest beverage maker has been responding to changing consumer tastes by moving beyond traditional sodas and offering drinks that are lower in sugar or come in new flavors.
Coca Cola Co (KO.N) on Tuesday beat analysts’ estimate for quarterly profit and raised its organic revenue forecast for the full year.
The company was driven by demand for zero sugar soda and innovations, such as the Coca Cola plus Coffee
Coca Cola bought Britain based Costa Coffee for $5.1 billion and recently rolled out ready-to-drink coffee in cans in the UK and a coffee based soda in several markets.
The company plans to launch the beverages in other markets this year.
The beverage maker reported a six per cent rise in second quarter organic revenue, a keenly watched metric that gives sales growth excluding acquisitions and currency fluctuations.
According IBES data from Refinitiv, net revenue rose 6.1 per cent to $10 billion in the second quarter ended June 28, a touch above the estimate of $9.99 billion.
Net income attributable to the Atlanta, Georgia-based company rose to $2.61 billion, or 61 cents per share, from $2.32 billion, or 54 cents per share from a year ago.
Excluding onetime items, the company earned 63 cents per share, two cents above Wall Street’s estimates.
The company said it expected organic revenues to grow five per cent in the whole of 2019, up from its previous projection of a about a four per cent rise. (Reuters/NAN)
– July 23, 2019 @ 13:25 GMT |
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