Building a high-performance bottler through transformational excellence

Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company (ECCBC), a leading bottling partner of The Coca-Cola Company in North and West Africa, operates in 13 countries with more than 5,000 employees and 250,000 points of sale.

After three decades in operation, the company recognized it was time to reimagine its operating model and invest in its organizational health—that is, the effectiveness of its culture and ways of working in driving sustained performance. For ECCBC, this meant fostering accountability, collaboration, speed of decision-making, and frontline empowerment to ensure that performance improvements would endure.

Together with McKinsey, ECCBC launched a bold transformation to elevate performance across the enterprise. Discover how the company embedded excellence from frontline to leadership—boosting productivity, accelerating integrations, and building a stronger, more agile organization positioned for sustained growth across Africa.

 

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ECCBC bets big on operational and performance excellence to expand into new markets—and become a reference for the industry

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