CCSI Cork Crowncap Database - Brewer/Bottler
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 Brewer/bottler #14197 | | | Name | Coca-Cola (East Africa) Limited |
| | | City | Kisumu, Mombasa, Nairobi, Nyanza, |
| | | | | | | Extra info | Coca-Cola started operations in Kenya in 1948, on a Nairobi plot measuring just a quarter of an acre. The new beverage proved so popular that another production line was commissioned almost immediately in the coastal town of Mombasa.
The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Kisumu opened in 1950. Available photographs show the bottling and distribution operations were directly controlled by the subsidiaries of the Coca-Cola Co. Although no definitive record has been located, the original Coca-Cola production facility was likely located on or near Obote Road (formerly Mumias Road) in Kisumu, and it set the historical practice standards for manufacture and distribution of Coca-Cola Co. sodas in Africa.
After the first plant on Obote Road closed, Equator Bottlers Ltd. started operating a new plant in 1966 at a location near the current Tumaini Supermarket on the street connecting Ang’awa Street to Busia-Nairobi Highway, and then moved on to its current and more modern bottling and distribution facility in Kisumu |
| | | | | | | Other names used for this Brewer/bottler | | Name 1 | Equator Bottlers Ltd. |
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