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Coca-Cola FEMSA
Can you briefly explain how the legal team is structured, highlighting key individuals and their role within the department? Legal manager, Maricel Álvarez Chavarría, is a key leader since he...
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With a presence in Colombia for over a decade, Coca-Cola FEMSA currently operates seven bottling plants located in major production centres in the country and employs approximately 5,000 people that...
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Silvia Barrero, legal and corporate affairs vice president, leads an eight-lawyer in-house legal team for Coca-Cola FEMSA in Colombia. She leads the legal team drawing on more than 15 years...
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Operating in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama since 2003, Coca-Cola FEMSA currently has a substantial presence in the region with its five plants and 32 distribution centres that allow...
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Coca-Cola FEMSA was set up in Argentina in October 1991, with Coca-Cola FEMSA de Buenos Aires being acquired by the company later in 1997. Coca-Cola FEMSA is the largest franchise...
The Coca-Cola Company’s largest bottler, Coca Cola FEMSA, was founded in 1991 as a joint venture between the US beverage company and Monterrey-based FEMSA. Today the company earns around $11bn in annual revenue. Carlos Luis Díaz Sáenz heads the legal team as general counsel and has led its involvement in a number of recent deals. In 2016 the team worked on the deal which saw Coca-Cola FEMSA buy soy-based beverage maker AdeS from Unilever for $575m, which formed part of the company’s plan to bolster its Latin American portfolio with more nutritious offerings. Later that year Coca-Cola FEMSA’s Brazilian subsidiary bought Brazilian company Vonpar for over $1bn in another milestone deal that Díaz Sáenz’s team assisted on that will increase its presence in the country. Continuing their prolific work in the area of M&A, the team will again be utilised in 2017 whilst the company plans to partner with The Coca-Cola Company to buy a US-based entity before the end of the year.
