Dragan, 45, had led the operations of bottler Coca-Cola in Romania until 2011 and was subsequently promoted to Japan.
“This is a significant step along the path towards becoming the fifth largest bottler in the Coca-Cola system in terms of annual revenue,” Calin Dragan told just-drinks.com.
Dragan has up to now had a fast-growing career. A year ago on April 1 he was promoted as representative director & executive vice-president of Coca-Cola West Japan, a company with a turnover of $4.5 billion.
Calin Dragan talked about his Japanese experience last year in an interview to Business Magazin. After ten months in Japan he did not feel completely at home, but had learned the basics of how things worked there, so he felt “somewhat in control.”
(English version by Daniela Stoican)