| 1904 |
British Tobacco Company (Australia) Limited formed to take over a group of small tobacco companies, including WD & HO Wills (Australia) Limited. |
| 1909 |
Entry into the printing industry with the purchase of S T Leigh & Co Limited. |
| 1911 |
35 acres of land purchased at Kensington in Sydney at five hundred pounds per acre and named Raleigh Park. Cigarette making commenced there two years later. |
| 1927 |
Registration of British Tobacco Company (Australia) Limited transferred from UK to Australia. |
| 1929 |
Profits exceeded one million pounds for the first time. |
| 1932 |
Agreement between industry, growers and government for the guaranteed purchase of Australian tobacco leaf. |
| 1939 |
World War II begins with the introduction of wartime controls, manpower and tobacco rationing, Carreras acquired. |
| 1957 |
Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, opened the new Virginia Park Factory at East Bentleigh in Melbourne, Victoria. |
| 1960 |
S T Leigh & Co Pty Ltd embarked on a programme of further expansion in the printing and packaging industry. |
| 1962 |
S T Leigh changes its name to Leigh-Mardon Pty Limited. |
| 1963 |
Associated Products and Distribution Pty Limited (APD) set up to acquire and consolidate companies in the food and beverage industries. |
| 1963 |
First computer (ICL Model 1301) installed to process accounts for W D & H O Wills. |
| 1964 |
The establishment of separate divisions for Soft Drinks, Snack Foods and Frozen Food within APD and the first acquisitions within these industries. |
| 1964 |
Announcement of proposal for the establishment of Courage Breweries Ltd. |
| 1965 |
APD purchases a controlling interest in Coca-Cola Bottlers (Perth) Pty Ltd. 100% acquired the following year. |
| 1965 |
APD enters the meat processing industry through the purchase of Thomas Playfair Pty Ltd of Sydney. |
| 1966 |
Head Office building in Macquarie Street, Sydney, opened. |
| 1967 |
Establishment of Fibre Containers Limited as a subsidiary of Leigh-Mardon. |
| 1968 |
APD acquires Smith’s Potato Crisps (Aust) Pty Ltd and a 40% equity stake in Golden Poultry Pty Ltd, a major chicken processor. |
| 1968 |
APD acquires 100% of Coca-Cola Bottlers (Geelong) Pty Ltd. |
| 1972 |
APD acquires 100% of Coca-Cola Bottlers (Brisbane) Pty Ltd. |
| 1972 |
Sale of major part of Frozen Food Division. |
| 1973 |
British Tobacco Company (Australia) Limited changes its name to Allied Manufacturing and Trade Industries Limited to better reflect the Group’s diversified operations. |
| 1973 |
Leigh-Mardon produces its first postage stamp for the Ethiopian Government. |
| 1975 |
Leigh-Mardon wins its first contract from Australia Post for the supply of postage stamps. |
| 1977 |
Allied Manufacturing and Trade Industries Limited changes its name to AMATIL Limited. |
| 1978 |
Courage Breweries Ltd sold to Tooth & Co. |
| 1979 |
AMATIL Snack Foods Division commissions a snack food manufacturing plant in West Germany and also commences selling cereal snacks in Italy. |
| 1980 |
AMATIL acquires the poultry processor, Steggles Holdings Pty Ltd. |
| 1981 |
AMATIL enters into a packaging manufacturing joint venture with ICI Australia Operations Pty Ltd for the manufacture of co-extruded polypropylene film. |
| 1982 |
AMATIL’s Beverage Division makes its first overseas investment with the acquisition of the Coca-Cola Bottling franchises for Vienna and Graz, in Austria |
| 1982 |
W D & H O Wills (Australia) Limited announces that the existing cigarette manufacturing plants at Raleigh Park in Sydney and Virginia Park in Melbourne will close and their operations consolidated in a new National plant to be built at Pagewood in Sydney. |
| 1982 |
Leigh-Mardon purchases a vacuum metallising business and creates a metallising division. |
| 1984 |
Sale of Fibre Containers Limited |
| 1984 |
AMATIL sells its interests in the Meat processing Industry |
| 1985 |
W D & H O Wills commissions the new National Manufacturing Plant at Pagewood, NSW. |
| 1985 |
Leigh-Mardon Carton Division moved to new, larger premises at Botany. |
| 1985 |
Pacific Secure Systems, a subsidiary of Leigh-Mardon, opened by the NSW Premier, Neville Wran. |
| 1986 |
AMATIL’s Beverage Division acquires Southern Cross Beverages which held the Coca-Cola franchise for Metropolitan Sydney and most of NSW. |
| 1986 |
AMATIL acquires the Deep Spring mineral water brand. |
| 1986 |
Leigh-Mardon acquires a majority shareholding in Fortonic Technology, which manufactures and distributes electronic funds transfer terminals. |
| 1987 |
AMATIL Beverages acquires the Coca-Cola Bottler at Port Macquarie on the North Coast of NSW and an additional overseas Coca-Cola franchise in Modling, Austria. |
| 1987 |
APD Snack Foods Pty Limited closes its manufacturing plant at Oakleigh in Victoria, and extends the Regency Park manufacturing operation in Adelaide. |
| 1987 |
AMATIL’s share in Golden Poultry Farming Industries Ltd is sold. |
| 1987 |
AMATIL’s half share in Propafilm Pty Limited is sold to ICI Australia Limited. |
| 1987 |
Leigh-Mardon Graphics awarded contract by Telecom Australia for the compilation of the Yellow Pages for all states of Australia except NSW - the largest single contract ever awarded to Leigh-Mardon. |
| 1988 |
50% of Steggles Holdings Limited is sold to Goodman Fielder Wattie Limited, to enable Steggles to be combined with Table Talk Poultry Farms Ltd. |
| 1988 |
AMATIL Beverages acquires Coca-Cola franchises in North Queensland, Fiji, and Wellington (NZ). |
| 1988 |
AMATIL Beverages acquires Coca-Cola franchise in St Polten, Austria |
| 1988 |
AMATIL Beverages acquires Ecks (NSW) Pty Limited |
| 1988 |
APD acquires the Planters Nuts brand. |
| 1988 |
Fortronic Technology Pty Ltd becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leigh-Mardon. |
| 1988 |
Leigh-Mardon acquires CPE Australia Limited from BTR Nylex. |
| 1988 |
As part of Australia’s Bicentennial celebrations, in partnership with The National Trust of Australia, AMATIL undertakes a $1.6 million sole sponsorship of ‘A Gift to the Nation’, which funds the restoration of 13 historical properties throughout Australia. |
| 1989 |
Acquisition of the fifth Coca-Cola franchise in Austria, at Landegg by AMATIL Beverages. |
| 1989 |
AMATIL acquires sixth Coca-Cola franchise in Austria - Steyr. |
| 1989 |
Shareholders approve the major corporate reorganisation involving the sale of the Company’s tobacco subsidiary to BAT Industries. BAT’s sale of its 41% interest in AMATIL to The Coca-Cola Company, and the future concentration by the company on its core activities of beverages and snack foods. |
| 1989 |
Shareholders approve the change of the Company’s name to Coca-Cola Amatil Limited (CCA) |
| 1989 |
CCA sells its remaining 50% shareholding in Steggles Holdings Limited. |
| 1989 |
Announces agreement to purchase The Coca-Cola Company’s 50% interest in Oasis Industries, New Zealand |
| 1990 |
CCA acquires its 7th Coca-Cola franchise (Gmunden) in Austria. |
| 1990 |
CCA acquires its eighth Coca-Cola franchise in Austria. The Klangenfurt franchise is situated in the southern part of Austria and adjoins the borders of Italy and Yugoslavia. |
| 1990 |
CCA announces the acquisition of C-C Bottlers Limited and the remaining 50% of Oasis Industries, New Zealand, a transaction that unifies the Australasian Coca-Cola franchises under CCA’s ownership. |
| 1990 |
CCA further expands its overseas beverage operations with the acquisition of the Dornbirn franchise, Austria. CCA’s beverage operations now cover 70% of Austria’s population. |
| 1990 |
CCA announces the sale of Leigh-Mardon to DBSM Capital Partners Limited, approved by shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting held on November 21, 1990. |
| 1990 |
Diverse Products Limited, a subsidiary of CCA, sells its wholly-owned subsidiary, Spignel Pty Ltd, to Sizzler Restaurants Australia Limited. |
| 1991 |
CCA acquires the Salzburg Coca-Cola franchise in Austria, CCA’s 10th in that country.CCA’s beverage operations now cover more than 75% of Austria’s population. |
| 1991 |
Shareholders approve a two for one split of CCA’s ordinary shares. |
| 1991 |
CCA expands further in Europe, forming a joint venture with Budapest’s BULIV for expansion into Hungary. The new company is known as Coca-Cola Amatil Budapest. |
| 1991 |
CCA enters South East Asia with the formation of joint ventures with the Indonesian Tirtalina Group and Pan Java Group |
| 1991 |
The Coca-Cola Tirtalina Bottling Company is established, serving 56 million consumers in East Java, West Java and Bali. |
| 1991 |
The Coca-Cola Pan Java Bottling Company is established, serving a further 20 per cent of the Indonesian population. |
| 1991 |
CCA acquires the two major Coca-Cola bottling operations in Papua New Guinea - Lae and Port Moresby. |
| 1991 |
CCA acquires 100% of Coca-Cola Amatil Budapest, and signs agreements with two other companies to increase CCA’s beverage operations in that country to cover approximately 63% of the population. |
| 1991 |
CCA Beverages announces further expansion in Eastern Europe, into Czechoslovakia. |
| 1991 |
Smith’s Crisps celebrate its 60th birthday. Frank Smith and his partner started making the famous Smith’s Potato Crisps in Sydney in 1931. |
| 1991 |
CCA acquires the franchise for Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta in the Czech Republic |
| 1992 |
CCA acquires the State-owned Prague Sweets and Sodas’ Kyje bottling plant in the Czech Republic. CCA contributes A$250,000 for the renovation of the Prague Zoo. |
| 1992 |
CCA expands its Coca-Cola franchise operations in Hungary with the inclusion of the South East Region, based at the regional centre of Bekescsaba |
| 1992 |
CCA announces the sale of its Snack Food Division to United Biscuits of the UK for A$430 million. |
| 1993 |
CCA acquires Kisvarda Coca-Cola franchise in Hungary. |
| 1993 |
CCA opens a new soft drinks production facility in Kyje (Prague). |
| 1993 |
CCA announces plans to establish a new F$10 million manufacturing facility at Laucala Bay, Suva (Fiji). |
| 1993 |
CCA signs an agreement with the shareholders of PT Djaya Beverage Bottling Company (DBBC) to acquire a controlling interest in DBBC, the Coca-Cola franchise bottler for Jakarta, Indonesia. |
| 1993 |
CCA acquires its first production facility in the Slovak Republic. The facility is located at Luka, one hundred kilometres north of the Slovakian capital of Bratislava. |
| 1993 |
CCA announces a major investment and beverage plant construction project at Dunaharaszti, Budapest. |
| 1993 |
CCA announces that P.T. Coca-Cola Pan Java Bottling Co. (PJBC) has signed an agreement to acquire the bottling and distribution assets of P.T. Multi Bintang Indonesia (MBI) in Medan, Sumatra. The acquisition of the assets from MBI will enable PJBC to become the sole franchised bottler for Coca-Cola for all of Sumatra. |
| 1994 |
CCA acquires the majority share holding in the Coca-Cola franchise for the Republic of Slovenia. |
| 1994 |
CCA Chairman, Dean Wills opens CCA Slovakia's newly renovated plant at Luka. |
| 1994 |
CCA opens a new sales and distribution centre at Dunaharaszti Budapest, Hungary. |
| 1994 |
CCA Chairman, Dean Wills, opens a new beverage manufacturing plant at Richlands in Brisbane, Australia. |
| 1994 |
CCA expands into the Ukraine, giving the Company access to a further 52 million people. |
| 1995 |
CCA acquires The Coca-Cola Company's wholly owned bottling operation in Poland with the right to manufacture and distribute to approximately 60% of the Polish population and the right to supply products to the companies with distribution rights for the remainder of the country. |
| 1995 |
CCA announces agreement for acquisition of 75% of Coca-Cola Bottlers, Zagreb in Croatia and 100% of Boissons Désalterantes S.A. (BDSA), the Coca-Cola bottling operation in Lausanne, Switzerland supplying 1.7 million consumers in western Switzerland. |
| 1995 |
CCA announces:
- A one-for-four Renounceable Rights Issue to raise approximately A$670 million.
- The acquisition of The Coca-Cola Company’s interest in bottling operations in Romania.
- CCA acquires The outstanding shareholding in PT Coca-Cola Tirtalina bottling Company in Indonesia.
- Announces plans to merge its three Indonesian bottling companies. |
| 1995 |
CCA commences construction of a new Coca-Cola plant at Split on the Dalmacijan coast of Croatia. |
| 1995 |
CCA acquires 33% of Coca-Cola Getranke AG which services approximately 75% of the Swiss population, ie. all of the Swiss population not served by BDSA. |
| 1995 |
CCA acquires 100% of the bottling companies servicing the territories of Warsaw, Bydgoszcz and Lublin in Poland, increasing CCA’s access to more than 90% of the Polish population. |
| 1996 |
CCA opens its first bottling plant in the Ukraine at L’viv. |
| 1996 |
CCA consolidates its ownership of Coca-Cola Getranke AG in Switzerland. |
| 1996 |
CCA moves to 90% ownership of its Indonesian operations The Pan Java Group holds the remaining 10%. |
| 1996 |
CCA agrees to acquire the outstanding Coca-Cola bottling operations in Austria and Poland. |
| 1996 |
CCA forms a strategic alliance with The Kerry Group which has major Coca-Cola bottling interests in China. |
| 1997 |
CCA acquires Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc from San Miguel Corporation and the Coca-Cola Company through a share placement which gives San Miguel a 25% shareholding in CCA. |
| 1998 |
CCA demerges its European bottling businesses, with the establishment of Coca-Cola Beverages plc. CCA retains its businesses in the Pacific Region and South East Asia. |
| 1998 |
CCA acquires the Coca-Cola Bottling operations in South Korea. |
| 2000 |
CCA sells Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc to San Miguel Corporation. The transaction involved the cancellation of all of San Miguel’s and some of The Coca-Cola Company’s shares in CCA. |
| 2002 |
Sale of CCA’s PET manufacturing assets in Australia and New Zealand to Visy. |
| 2002 |
Acquisition of fruit juice and cordial business, Pacific Beverages Australia Pty Ltd. |
| 2002 |
Acquisition of Rio Beverages Ltd (NZ). |
| 2003 |
Acquisition of Peats Ridge bulk packaged water business (Aust). |
| 2003 |
Acquisition of home and office water delivery company, Neverfail Springwater Limited |
| 2004 |
Acquisition of Quirks Refrigeration which operates the rental and servicing of commercial refrigeration equipment (Aust). |
| 2004 |
Acquisition of Crusta Fruit Juices Pty Ltd (Aust) |
| 2004 |
CCA opens its state of the art automated materials handling facility at Mentone in Victoria |
| 2004 |
Acquisition of the Northern Territory Coca-Cola franchise from Parmalat Australia. This acquisition makes CCA the sole licensee of Coca-Cola products in Australia. |
| 2005 |
Acquisition of SPC Ardmona Limited, Australia’s leading producer of ready-to-eat packaged fruit and vegetables |
| 2005 |
Acquisition of Grinders Coffee Pty Ltd |
| 2006 |
Acquisition of home and office water delivery company Palm Springs Limited |
| 2006 |
CCA announces the formation of a joint venture with SABMiller plc, one of the world’s leading brewers, to sell and distribute imported premium beer in Australia. The 50:50 joint venture between CCA and SABMiller, to be known as Pacific Beverages Pty Ltd, will initially import SABMiller’s international premium beer brands, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Miller Genuine Draft and Pilsner Urquell into the Australian market. |
| 2006 |
CCA announces that it has entered into an exclusive agreement through its joint venture company, Pacific Beverages, to sell and distribute the premium spirit portfolio of global premium spirits distributor Maxxium (now Jim Beam Global Spirits & Wines). Maxxium’s major brands include Jim Beam, Canadian Club, Remy Martin, Cointreau, The Famous Grouse and ABSOLUT VODKA |
| 2006 |
CCA opens its new $15 million national distribution centre for SPC Ardmona, which centralises and consolidates twelve of SPC Ardmona’s offsite warehouses. |
| 2006 |
CCA announces a $200 million automated warehouse development at Northmead and Eastern Creek in Western Sydney. At Eastern Creek, a new automated distribution centre, utilising state-of-the-art systems, alternative energy technology and rainwater harvesting systems, will be built at a cost of approximately $90 million. At Northmead, the 35 year old existing site will be revitalised at a cost of $110 million to accommodate a new automated distribution centre and a new manufacturing production line. |
| 2007 |
Acquisition of hospitality and office coffee delivery company Café Direct (NZ) |
| 2007 |
Pacific Beverages acquires 100% of Bluetongue Brewery Pty Ltd. Bluetongue Brewery was launched in November 2003 and operates from an established boutique brewery in Cameron Park, near Newcastle, New South Wales. |
| 2007 |
CCA announces the sale of its South Korean Coca-Cola franchise bottling business. |
| 2007 |
CCA commences ‘Project OAisys’ as part of a joint initiative with other major Coke Bottlers and The Coca-Cola Company to build and implement a best practice end-to-end technology platform to materially improve efficiencies and customer service across all major business processes within the Coke System. The project will cost $65 million and be implemented over three years |
| 2008 |
CCA completes a $170 million off-market share buy-back. A total of 21.7 million shares are bought back at a price of $7.84. |
| 2008 |
CCA announces that Pacific Beverages, will build a boutique premium brewery at Warnervale in the Central Coast region of New South Wales. The brewery, with a capacity of 50 million litres (500,000 hectolitres) is expected to be completed in 2010. |
| 2008 |
CCA purchases the iconic Coca-Cola sign in Kings Cross, Sydney. The Coca-Cola Company has leased the sign since it was built in 1976. CCA and TCCC will maintain the current leasing arrangements. |
| 2008 |
CCA’s new $110 million fully-automated high-bay warehouse at Northmead is commissioned |
| 2008 |
CCA’s new NZ$80million automated distribution centre in Auckland is commissioned |
| 2008 |
Acquisition of Baker Halls brand and hot fill bottling line from Old Fashioned Foods Ltd (NZ) |
| 2009 |
CCA’s new $90 million semi-automated distribution centre at Eastern Creek is commissioned |
| 2010 |
CCA completes $45 million investment in in-line blowing and filling of PET bottles at its manufacturing facility in Northmead, Sydney. |