Coke bottler to invest US $895M in Mexico and US this year

Mexican Coca-Cola bottler Arca Continental volition put a grounds 18 cardinal pesos (US $895 million) to grow its concern successful 2025. Arca made the announcement during its yearly shareholders’ meeting, wherever it presented its 2024 consolidated fiscal results. 

Approximately 50% of the funds volition spell towards Arca’s operations successful Mexico, with the different 50% supporting concern enlargement successful the United States and South America, the institution said connected Tuesday. 

The astir billion-dollar concern volition spell toward strengthening Arca’s accumulation and organisation capacity, accelerating the usage of integer tools, launching caller beverage categories and improving its sustainable concern model. (Arca Continental)

“This magnitude volition beryllium chiefly allocated to expanding accumulation and organisation capacity, accelerating the usage of integer tools, launching caller beverage categories, arsenic good arsenic strengthening [Arca’s] sustainable concern exemplary and creating shared worth successful the communities it serves,” Arca said successful a statement.

Arca Continental has operated successful Mexico for 99 years and is the second-largest Coca-Cola bottler successful the Americas and 1 of the largest successful the world. 

Highlights from the gathering included an 11.8% summation successful nett income, totaling astir 20 cardinal pesos ($992 million) and a nett income maturation of 10.9%, totaling 237 cardinal pesos ($11.8 billion). 

“We volition proceed with the integer translation of the concern and support the impeccable execution that distinguishes us, with the steadfast tendency to marque a affirmative quality successful each territory we serve,” the bottler’s CEO Arturo Gutiérrez stated astatine the event. 

Arca has been recognized for its sustainable practices, having been included successful some the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the S&P Global’s Sustainability Yearbook. 

“Guided by our strategy of profitable and sustainable growth, we proceed to consistently make shared worth successful the markets wherever we operate,” Chairman of Arca’s Board of Directors Jorge Santos Reyna said astatine the shareholders’ meeting. 

Impact of US aluminum tariffs connected bottler

U.S. President Donald Trump introduced sweeping 25% tariffs connected each alloy and aluminum products imported into the U.S. connected March 12. 

In February, Arca said that the looming tariffs would person a marginal impact connected the full costs of its products sold successful the U.S.  

Arca’s Director of Administration and Finance Emilio Marcos Charur said that aluminum represents 10% of the full outgo of products sold successful the U.S., therefore, immoderate terms summation resulting from the tariffs would person a outgo interaction of little than 1%.

With reports from La Economista and CNN