Elusive Coke-Bottling Billionaire Thrust Into FTSE Limelight
With Coca-Cola Europacific Partners entering the UK blue chip index, Daurella will need to up the company’s game.
CCEP bottles and distributes a variety of Coca-Cola-brand beverages, including Coke, Sprite, Monster, Fanta and Powerade.
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Sol Daurella is famously media shy.
Over the 33 years that she’s watched her Spanish family-founded business grow into the world’s biggest bottler for The Coca-Cola Co. — making her a billionaire — she’s avoided the limelight. But behind the scenes, the 58-year-old, now the company’s chairwoman, has aggressively cobbled together one of largest networks of beverage bottlers across Europe and Asia, boosting sales, profits, shares and her family’s fortune.