Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated Opens New Sales and Distribution Center in Louisville

LOUISVILLE, KY. — Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated has opened a new 305,000-square-foot sales and distribution center on Global Drive in southwest Louisville. The company invested roughly $12 million to renovate a vacant warehouse on a 25-acre site in Louisville for the new plant. The project also involved retrofitting office space and adding more than 100,000 square feet of new construction. The new facility will handle sales and distribution of Coca-Cola products in a 21-county area stretching from Owen County to Hardin County in Kentucky and Jefferson County to Harrison County in Indiana. The company currently has 350 employees working in the Louisville franchise territory. In addition, a new ‘make ready center’, which will handle deployment and refurbishing of vending and other sales equipment, is still under construction and will open later this spring. In addition to the Louisville franchise, Coca-Cola Consolidated also acquired the franchise in Evansville, Ind. The company has signed definitive purchase agreements for additional Kentucky franchises, including Lexington, Pikeville and Paducah, and hopes to conclude those transactions later in 2015. Charlotte-based Coca-Cola Consolidated is the nation’s largest independent bottler of Coca-Cola with franchise territories in 11 states.