Hence, the company heads to RON2 billion sales in 2015, similar with 2008, the last year of economic boom on the local market.
Also, Coca-Cola HBC Romania posted a high single digit increase by volume, up 7%-9%, driven by Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Cappy Pulpy, Dorna or Burn brands.
The company’s net profit increased 2.5-fold on the year in the first semester, at RON84.8 million. The margin of the company’s net profit set to over 9% compared with 6% a year before.
Cappy Pulpy, the newest brand in Coca-Cola HBC Romania’s portfolio, highly contributed to the business growth on the local market. Half of the Cappy Pulpy production goes to export, according to a company’s report.
Cappy Pulpy has gradually grown to be one of the best-selling non-alcoholic ready to drink beverages, ranking second by volume last year, according to market research company Vektor Marktforschung data.
Operating on the local market since 1991, the company has factories in Timisoara and Vatra Dornei. Moreover, it owns 14 distribution units on the local market. In the first semester, the company posted an average number of 1,512 employees, slightly down from the same period a year before.
(English version by Manuela Panescu)