Coca-Cola Enterprises to Expand Florida Plant, Contractor Identified

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Orlando Coca-Cola Bottling Company (Orlando, Florida), a division of Coca-Cola Enterprises Incorporated (NYSE: CCE) (Atlanta, Georgia), has selected a contractor for an expansion of their Orlando, Florida soft drink bottling plant. (Plant 1013367, PEC 05002118)

With $50,000 of help from the city of Orlando, in the way of development and impact fees being waved, Coca-Cola is planning to invest about $8 million in a plant expansion to meet a growing demand for Coca-Cola products in Central Florida.

The project will add about 128,000 square feet of space to the existing 214,114 square foot building located at 2900 Mercy Drive in Orlando and will be followed by the installation of a new hi-speed bottling line and truck maintenance shop.

Coca-Cola has hired Current Builders (Pompano Beach, Florida) as the design-build contractor and construction is scheduled to begin early 2004.

Construction is expected to take roughly ten months to complete and the company will hire an additional 15 employees when the new area begins soft drink production.

The Orlando plant currently produces about 34 million cases of Coke, Diet Coke, Vanilla Coke and Sprite products annually.

Coca-Cola Enterprises is the world's largest marketer, producer, and distributor of products of The Coca-Cola Company. The Company operates in parts of 46 states in the U. S., all 10 provinces in Canada, and portions of Europe. They employ approximately 74,000 people; operate 454 production and warehousing facilities, 55,000 vehicles, and 2.5 million vending machines.