Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) plans to invest around €150m ($156.2m) into its operations in Germany.
Most of the funding will be injected into the group’s facility in Halle, eastern Germany.
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Of the €150m, nearly €45m will be invested in the installation of a can-filling line in Halle to cater to the “increased” demand for canned beverages.
Starting in mid-2026, CCEP said it will be able to “significantly” increase its can-filling capacities in Germany with the new line in Halle.
One of the existing lines for filling non-carbonated drinks in Halle will also be expanded.
Additional investments are planned for CCEP’s sites in Lüneburg and Dorsten. In Lüneburg, where CCEP plans to spend €11m, the money will be used to complete the construction of the reusable glass production line installed last year, and build a new bottle sorting facility.
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By GlobalDataMeanwhile, the company will spend €8m at the Dorsten facility to install a line for manufacturing concentrates for dispenser solutions in the foodservice industry.
This line is being relocated from Cologne following CCEP’s decision to close its production and logistics facility later this year. When announced in October, the closure was expected to impact 289 out of the total 602 employees working there.
The new funding will also help to complete renovation in the Dorsten’s syrups production room, which started last year.
A significant portion of the investment – €42m – will also go towards reusable packaging, particularly to make new reusable bottles and crates.
The fresh funding represents a roughly 10% increase on investments in 2024. Over the past five years, CCEP said it has invested more than €600m into its German arm.
John Galvin, the general manager of CCEP’s Germany unit, said: “In order to be able to produce competitively in Germany in the future, we need significantly better framework conditions.
“The urgently needed structural changes must be tackled quickly and decisively after the election.”
A federal election is due to take place in Germany on 23 February.
Between 2019 and 2023, CCEP allocated over €300m to reusable bottling in Germany.
In 2023, the group invested more than €40m to set up a new filling line at the Lüneburg facility to enhance its reusable packaging capabilities.
In June that same year, CCEP reopened the returnable PET bottle lines at its facility in Bad Neuenahr to meet the demand for one litre of returnable PET bottles.
CCEP ‘s German arm handles the bottling, sales, and distribution of Coca-Cola Company products in Germany. It manages 27 locations, including 14 production plants.
Earlier this week, the company recalled some of its products in the Benelux region due to containing “higher levels” of the chemical chlorate.
The UK’s Food Standards Agency said there was “limited distribution” to the country of the affected products”.
