Creating Shared Value
Improving the Business Environment: Upgrading Channels
Arca Continental
• Arca Continental is the second largest bottling company in Latin America,
and one of the largest Coca-Cola bottlers in the world
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Arca Continental established a program to train and invest in the micro-
entrepreneur retailers who sell more than 60% of the Company's products,
including management, sales and marketing and merchandising
Invests in low energy use coolers and fixture improvements
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Participating retailers register sales increases of 25% or more, with improved
customer satisfaction, leading to similar increases in the sales of Arca's
products
Arca Continental recovers its investment in 6 months or less
Beginning in Mexico, the program is being extended to Argentina and
Ecuador
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