Our history

OUR HISTORY

Always at the side of our customers, together towards an exciting future.

Sustainability Sustainability
2026

Coca-Cola had the honor of supporting the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games and accompanying the Olympic Flame Journey throughout the country, sharing with Italy a celebration of sport, inclusion, and collective joy, while refreshing audiences with Coca-Cola, Powerade, and Lurisia beverages.

Coca-Cola HBC Italia publishes its 20th Sustainability Report. Over the past 20 years, the company has reported on progress in terms of social and environmental sustainability, anticipating topics that are now at the center of public interest, such as the recycability of packaging and the enhancement of skills.

2024
Commitment to Packaging Commitment to Packaging
Gaglianico Plant Gaglianico Plant
2023

All plastic bottles across the entire Coca-Cola beverage portfolio are made from 100% recycled plastic (rPET)—excluding the cap and label—from preforms produced in Gaglianico.

Products Products
2022

The Gaglianico (BI) plant is reborn and is converted into an innovative plant to produce up to 30,000 tons per year of preforms made with 100% recycled plastic (rPET).

Coca-Cola is introducing Tethered Caps, caps attached to the bottle, two years ahead of European regulations, to simplify collection and recycling and reduce plastic litter and its impact on the environment.

Coca-Cola is introducing the first bottles made from 100% recycled plastic (rPET) - excluding the cap and label - to the Italian market.

The company is also introducing KeelClip™ technology, an innovative packaging system which has made it possible to eliminate the plastic wrap from multi-pack cans.

2021
Products Products
2019 2019
2019

In Nogara, the aseptic line for the production of non-carbonated beverages is inaugurated thanks to a total investment of €45 million. 

The Oricola plant celebrates its first 30 years of activity and inaugurates the new Syrup Room.

2018
2018 2018
2016 2016
2016

Coca-Cola HBC Italia inaugurates the Cogeneration System (CHP) of the Marcianise plant, in the presence of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

The Nogara plant celebrates forty years of activity and Coca-Cola HBC Italia enters the Guinness World Record for having created the largest "human bottle" in the world.

2015
2015 2015
2011 2011
2011

The website www.lanostraricetta.it is launched, where we showcase our commitments and achievements for the environment, people, and communities.

2008 2008
2008

Coca-Cola HBC Italia acquires Socib, the Capua Group's Beverage Bottling Company, which has been operating in Southern Italy since the 1960s, thus adding five regions to its market.

Coca-Cola HBC Italia and Coca-Cola Italia enter the water market with Fonti del Vulture, a company with innovative technology and strong roots in its territory.

2006
2006 2006
2005 2005
2005

Coca-Cola Bevande Italia takes the name of Coca-Cola HBC Italia.

The first Sustainability Report of Coca-Cola Bevande Italia is published.

2004
2004 2004
2003 2003
2003

Coca-Cola Bevande Italia merges with CCB Holdings Italia, which in the same year takes the name Coca-Cola Bevande.  

1995 1995
1995

From the merger of eleven bottlers companies in Northern and Central Italy (which became sixteen in 1998) Coca-Cola Bevande Italia was born.

Activities begin in Italy, with the first Coca-Cola production and bottling plant of the Società Romana Acque Gassose.

1927
1927 1927