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World Environment Day Highlights Our Ongoing Commitment to Sustainability

EHazel — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:16:26 +0000

Accra, June 5 – “At Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), our sustainability strategy is centered around people—consumers and our employees—and driving sustainable solutions that build resilience into our business to respond to current and future challenges, while creating positive change for the planet,” said CCBA Chief Public Affairs, Communication and Sustainability Officer, Tshidi Ramogase.

“Water is a priority for the Coca-Cola system because it is the first ingredient in all our beverages and is essential to the communities we serve.

“The Coca-Cola Company’s 2030 Water Security Strategy focuses on increasing water security. We work with partners to provide access to a steady supply of clean water for people and ecosystems in the areas where we operate and source ingredients,” Ramogase said.

“We do that by contributing toward sustainable, clean water access that improves livelihoods and wellbeing while protecting against water-related disasters.

“Inside our operations, we are committed to regenerative water use. This means using less water as well as re-using and treating wastewater.

“For example, in Kenya we opened a new wastewater treatment plant at our Equator Bottlers plant in Kisumu, which will promote more sustainable water use and help reduce the factory’s environmental impact. The new plant will enable us to treat and recycle wastewater generated from the production facility, which will be used for non-potable purposes such as irrigation and cleaning.

”Our subsidiary, Coca-Cola Beverages Botswana, signed an agreement last year with the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources to donate water from its newly installed water treatment plant for agricultural irrigation at the campus. The new state-of-the-art water treatment plant has made the company fully effluent compliant by ensuring that clean water is returned to the environment.

“For our packaging, we seek to drive a circular economy because this helps to reduce waste and carbon emissions. We’re working to use more recycled content in our packaging, to expand our use of refillable bottles, and to collect packaging for recycling through Coca-Cola’s World Without Waste initiative. We also partner to design new solutions for packaging.

“As an example, Coca-Cola and other like-minded industries came together in 2004 to set up the PET Recycling Company (PETCO) in South Africa to promote and regulate the recycling of PET plastic, taking responsibility for recovering and recycling beverage PET plastic bottles.

“The PETCO model has proven so effective it has been extended to three other markets, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia, with plans to include additional countries like Namibia.

“While we strive to make progress on our own, we are committed to fostering partnerships that drive collective impact in areas including water stewardship, packaging circularity, climate action and many more.

“We engage with stakeholders, including governments, NGOs, communities, suppliers, business partners, customers and consumers in all the markets where we operate, in many forums and formats. Feedback from our stakeholders allows us to learn and improve, and informs our business and sustainability strategy,” Ramogase said.

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Drought, floods show urgency of improved water security in Africa

EHazel — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:31:21 +0000

Byline: Tshidi Ramogase, Coca-Cola Beverages Africa’s Chief Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability Officer

Africa’s vulnerability to climate change was once again demonstrated in late 2023, when torrential rains swept across much of East Africa, bringing devastating floods just six months after a record-breaking five-season drought in the region.

Vast areas of farmland in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia were inundated, washing away homes and destroying thousands of hectares of crops.

These events highlight the urgency of improved water security and climate resilience on the continent.

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) partners with governments, the private sector, NGOs and communities to promote water security. Water is a priority for Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) because it is essential to life, our beverages and the communities we serve.

The Coca-Cola Company’s 2030 Water Security Strategy is focused on accelerating the actions needed to increase water security where we operate, source ingredients and touch people’s lives.

We invest in water initiatives that benefit nature and communities. This includes projects that provide benefits to local watersheds that supply water for drinking, agriculture and manufacturing, restore and conserve habitats for plants and animals and offer opportunities for local economic development.

As part of this work, we collaborate with partners to understand the inextricable link between water, climate, agriculture and biodiversity.

In addition, many of our water replenishment projects have additional co-benefits such as helping improve soil health, sequester carbon, conserve water, restore degraded lands, contribute to biodiversity and help mitigate climate change.

Our work is organised to address water security inside our operations, in our watersheds and in our communities. Also, we continue to replenish the water we use in our finished beverages to nature and communities.

Inside our operations, the Coca-Cola system is committed to regenerative water use. This means using less water as well as re-using and treating wastewater.

For example, in Kenya we opened a new wastewater treatment plant at our Equator Bottlers plant in Kisumu, which will promote more sustainable water use and help reduce the factory’s environmental impact. The new plant will enable us to treat and recycle wastewater generated from the production facility, which will be used for non-potable purposes such as irrigation and cleaning.

Our subsidiary, Coca-Cola Beverages Botswana, signed an agreement last year with the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources to donate water from its newly installed water treatment plant for agricultural irrigation at the campus. The new state-of-the-art water treatment plant has made the company fully effluent compliant by ensuring that clean water is returned to the environment.

We also aim to improve the health of watersheds identified as most critical for our operations and agricultural supply chain by supporting nature-based solutions, investing in landscape solutions and helping farmers to use less water.

CCBA in Kenya has been actively engaged over the past three years in reforesting 90 hectares of critical forests that play a significant role in Nairobi’s water catchment areas in collaboration with implementing partner, Nature Kenya.

When it comes to communities, we aim to help provide access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and advocate for good water governance.

Our South African bottler, Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA), supported good water governance in Grabouw in the Western Cape, where the municipality was losing a significant amount of its potable water due to leaks and failing infrastructure. Through this partnership, we trained young community members in plumbing to support the rehabilitation of water infrastructure, including fixing leaks in informal areas.

In response to a looming Day Zero in parts of the Eastern Cape province in South Africa, CCBSA deployed off-grid, solar-powered groundwater harvesting and treatment projects called Cokevilles in the region. A total of nine systems, or water tanks, have been deployed in Gqeberha and similar Cokeville projects have been installed in other peri-urban and rural communities in Limpopo, Gauteng, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

We do business the right way as a trusted partner for sustainable growth by managing packaging waste, water stewardship, and economic inclusion, particularly for women and youth. We are committed to making a positive impact on people’s lives and communities for a better shared future in Africa.

Economic inclusion of women is good for business, good for Africa

EHazel — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 08:30:14 +0000

By Tshidi Ramogase, Chief Public Affairs, Communication and Sustainability Officer, Coca-Cola Beverages Africa

March 8, Accra – International Women’s Day highlights the private sector’s crucial role in advancing the economic inclusion of women in Africa.

At Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), we use our industry leadership to be part of the solution for positive change on the African continent. Our aim is to create greater shared opportunity for the business and the communities we serve across the value chain.

We understand that our business can only thrive when the communities we serve thrive too. This is why we have made economic inclusion of women one of the pillars of our sustainability strategy at CCBA.

Across our value chain, we are working to improve skills and business knowledge for women, which in turn can help give them access to more opportunities.

For example, in Tanzania we have an economic inclusion programme called Mwanamke Shujaa (“A Brave Woman”), which provides training and mentorship to woman food vendors, as well as tools of the trade to enable them to grow their businesses. Training covered key areas like bookkeeping, customer care, stress management and capital growth.

In Ethiopia, female engineering students have joined our “Women in Engineering” trainee programme which will give them development opportunities and exposure to the company’s world-class operations, setting them up for future employment.

Through our partnership in Ghana with Girls in Science and Technology (GIST, CCBA subsidiary Voltic aims to reach women at different levels of education, providing them with the mentorship and coaching they need for a successful and impactful Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) career.

In South Africa, we have established a bursary fund at the University of Pretoria to support female students from previously disadvantaged backgrounds in their final year of engineering studies.

In Mozambique, a group of women plastic waste collectors completed a 12-week training course in an economic inclusion programme supported by CCBA. These women have since educated their communities about the positive effects of recycling.

We will continue to focus on creating a better shared future, to grow and sustain small businesses and enhance livelihoods, resulting in increased economic value and business capability for women, communities and our business system.

We believe this holistic approach, within and outside our organization, drawing on the ability of everyone to inspire inclusion, is a powerful formula for change.

African Continental Free Trade Area could be the antidote to current macro-economic challenges

EHazel — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 09:30:28 +0000

By Jacques Vermeulen
November 1, Johannesburg – The World Trade Organisation has recently warned that global tensions are causing fragmentation of trade, noting an uptick in unilateral trade restrictions and a growing trend towards consolidation of relationships within limited groups of “friendly” counties.
There is a risk of a return to the era of discrete trade blocs founded on common geopolitical and economic interests, and a reversal of development gains made during the period of globalisation.
This places Africa, which is already over-reliant on trade in commodities that results in significant trade imbalances, in a precarious position, just as it weathers a perfect storm of raw material price increases, high inflation and currency devaluation.
Businesses across the continent are having to manage these headwinds, along with very high unemployment levels and enormous cost pressures on consumers.
Other than maintaining a prudent foreign policy position and promoting diplomacy over conflict, there is not much that African governments can do about geopolitical tensions among the great powers, but this doesn’t mean they are powerless in the face of a fragmenting trade environment.
Africa itself is a huge market, with a rapidly growing and urbanising population that is increasingly connected, skilled and entrepreneurial.
According to the World Bank, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) presents “a major opportunity for African countries to bring 30 million people out of extreme poverty and to raise the incomes of 68 million others who live on less than $5.50 per day”.
It says trade facilitation measures that cut red tape and simplify customs procedures through effective implementation of the AfCFTA could drive $292 billion in potential income gains.
This will require deep reforms that could simultaneously unlock long-term growth in African countries.
“Creating a continent-wide market will require a determined effort to reduce all trade costs. Governments will also need to design policies to increase the readiness of their workforces to take advantage of new opportunities,” the World Bank says in its report, The African Continental Free Trade Area: Economic and Distributional Effects.
From the point of view of a business that operates in 15 African markets, there is a clear opportunity for Coca-Cola Beverages Africa to accelerate intra-regional trade and build larger cross-border value chains that draw on the domestic strengths of individual countries while increasing productivity, local manufacturing, entrepreneurship and employment.
Indeed, as a business, Coca-Cola Beverages Africa’s response to the economic headwinds we are experiencing has been to initiate a top-to-bottom reassessment of our value chain, looking at every opportunity to improve how we do things and increase productivity. The removal of trade restrictions between African countries and a reduction in the costs of moving goods across borders on the continent would go a long way in helping companies like ours to avoid passing high input costs on to consumers.
Mitigating inflation through frictionless trade instead of raising interest rates would take a lot of pressure off consumers as well.
As a case study of how this could work, there is the example of the plastic waste recycling value chain.
Currently, the market for recycled plastic in many African countries is too small to support local investment in recycling plants, yet the rules governing the movement of plastic waste across borders inhibit the economies of scale needed to achieve optimal rates of recycling, limit waste going to landfill, and create employment in the plastic waste circular economy.
At a minimum investment of about R250 million, a recycling plant needs to produce at least 20,000 tonnes of PET a year to be viable, while in a country like Namibia, Coca-Cola Beverages Africa only produces 2,700 tonnes. This means more plastic goes to landfill and the opportunity to create employment in recycling is reduced. With better regional co-operation, it would be possible to send baled collected plastic bottles to South Africa and fully recycle it.
The SADC region is working towards this goal, and the same model could be replicated in the rest of the continent, with mega regional recycling plants established in East and West Africa. This would create the scale required to attract the investment we need in recycling capacity to address the plastic waste problem, while also generating employment across the value chain.
This is just one example of how frictionless trade could enable the creation of cross-border value chains on the continent, to the mutual benefit of all African countries.
There are also risks, including the opportunity a free trade area could create for the expansion of trans-national illicit trade networks that are already well established. We must also be careful to ensure that the benefits of expanded intra-African trade are shared across the continent.
This will require close co-operation among law-enforcement and regulatory bodies, and between the public and private sectors.
Ultimately, the prize of long-term sustainable growth and increased prosperity across the continent is too valuable to be ignored. The work to make this a reality should begin in earnest.
• Vermeulen is the CEO of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa

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Voltic brings supply of potable water to Central Region communities

EHazel — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 02:20:46 +0000

A total of 16,000 people in the Abakrampa and Asuansi communities in the Central Region of Ghana, including two schools, have access to safe potable water thanks to boreholes installed by Voltic (GH) Ltd.

The two communities have been struggling to secure an adequate water supply as existing boreholes were not sustainable, but now have an additional daily capacity of 20,000 litres each, contributing to improved water security.

The handover ceremony was attended by Nana Kobina Anobi X, Chief of the Asuansi community, Emintsinminim Otu XI, Paramount Chief of Abora State, Ishmael Arthur, Principal of Asuansi School, Esi Sekyeraa Obeng, Headmistress of Abakrampa School, Willeyeven Obiri Awuah, DCE Abora Asebu Kwamankasi District and Reverend John Ntim Fordjour, Deputy Minister of Education.

Flora Jika, MD of Voltic, which is a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa, said the company was a leader in using water responsibly in its operations and giving it back.

“We continue to manage water resources through projects that reduce water use in our operations, protect local water resources and provide safe, clean drinking water to communities in need,” Jika said.

“We focus our attention and resources on enhancing water management that helps our business, supply chain and local communities build resilience to a changing climate.”

“Across all our facilities, we conduct thorough assessments of local water resources and put water protection plans in place, so our presence doesn’t harm communities’ vital water resources.”

“Because people need water to thrive, we support local water access projects that help bring safe, clean drinking water to communities in need,” Jika added.

Africa’s large informal economy a key element of strategies to eliminate plastic waste

EHazel — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 09:53:02 +0000

Jacques Vermeulen

Plastic waste is a growing problem globally, with up to 12.7 million metric tons of plastic entering the oceans each year¹. Plastic packaging is also an essential part of our modern lives, supporting efficient, safe and hygienic food value chains, among other important applications.

On a continent where food safety is an abiding concern, this means plastic packaging will continue to have a role for some time to come, and the focus must be on eliminating plastic waste.

Creating a viable circular economy for plastic waste is a key strategy to address this problem.

The circular economy promotes the re-use and recycling of products and materials, creating a closed-loop system that minimises waste and pollution. The circular economy offers a unique opportunity to address post-consumer plastic waste in Africa by keeping plastics in use and out of the environment.

Africa also has an unusually large informal economy, with the International Labour Organisation estimating in 2018 that 85.8 percent of employment on the continent is informal.²

This includes a vast network of waste pickers who collect and sort recyclable materials, creating a key component of a circular economy for plastic waste that both generates employment and reduces plastic pollution.

Integrating waste pickers into the formal waste management system, by providing training, equipment and a reliable income, can improve their working conditions and increase economic opportunities for marginalised communities.

At the same time, by reducing waste and increasing resource efficiency, the circular economy can reduce the reliance on virgin resources and create a more sustainable future for all.

This requires a significant investment in infrastructure, technology, and education. Governments, businesses, and civil society must work together to create an enabling environment for the circular economy to thrive.

This includes policies that incentivise the use of recyclable materials, regulations that require producers to take responsibility for their products’ end-of-life, and public education campaigns that raise awareness about the benefits of the circular economy.

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) has made a commitment to invest in our planet and our packaging, to help make the world’s packaging problem a thing of the past, working in partnership with The Coca-Cola Company which launched a sustainable packaging initiative called World Without Waste in 2018.

We are rethinking how our bottles are designed, collected, recycled and repurposed as part of our World Without Waste vision, with the following global goals:

Help collect a bottle or can for every one we sell by 2030
Focus on making all our packaging 100% recyclable by 2025
Make 25% of our packaging reusable by 2030

We recognise the importance of supporting the total collection value chain from waste picker level, to buy back centres and recyclers.

Understanding that we can’t do this alone, we partner with like-minded bodies to shape policy and leverage our combined scale.

Poor waste disposal is everybody’s problem, so everybody needs to get involved.

One of the most valuable environmental interventions in addressing poor waste disposal and achieving circularity is setting up the right Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) mechanisms and policies.

In the EPR model, producers pay fees to a producer responsibility organisation, or PRO, such as PETCO.

By creating value for post-consumer waste in this way, waste collectors or municipalities are incentivised to gather and return it to buy-back centres, who then deliver it to the recyclers.

So far, through effective industry partnerships, we have implemented voluntary EPR models in four of our markets and helped create organisations like PETCO South Africa, in Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania, and soon to be established in Uganda as well.

The model has been extremely successful since PETCO was established in South Africa, growing from collection and recycling of 9,000 tonnes of PET in 2005 to more than 92,000 tonnes in 2021, and an average price paid of around 50c/kg of PET in 2005 to around R3.80/kg in 2021, showing an increase in both volume and value.

Going a step further, the South African government adopted mandatory EPR regulations in 2021, creating a precedent that other African countries can consider and adopt too.

Building on these successes, CCBA has engaged with SADC, NEPAD and other regional organisations to roll out the self-regulated EPR model in other markets.

We are also improving the recyclability of our packs through a strong emphasis on shifting to homogeneous and clear bottles and have made significant progress on this already.

To clean up existing packaging, we’re bringing people together through programmes like beach and river cleanups and other ongoing local activities. To encourage more people to recycle more often, we’re investing to help people understand what to recycle, how to recycle, and where to recycle.

The opportunity to grow employment in Africa through a circular economy for plastic waste is clear. In Mozambique alone, a total of 37,000 people benefit from collection and recycling activity that is supported by CCBA.

Scaling up the EPR model across the continent will go a long way towards addressing unemployment and poverty, while also removing plastic waste from the environment.

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa bets big on skills for the future

EHazel — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 13:20:58 +0000

July 15, Accra -– Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) is making significant investments in capabilities to create an agile workplace that is engaging and productive, developing the skills of employees to compete in a digital age of artificial intelligence and big data.
“CCBA’s digital transformation journey is an integral component to take us into the future, remain relevant and future-proof our business. It will give us a competitive advantage, the agility to anticipate and respond to changes in our environment and satisfy and respond to customers and consumers’ real-time needs,” said the company’s chief people and culture officer, Cathy Albertyn.
“This is especially relevant as we mark World Youth Skills Day because we know that the future of work will involve integrating new digital technologies with a highly skilled workforce to remain competitive.
“Young people in the early stages of their careers will benefit in the future from acquiring the skills to use this technology to the greatest effect. As we digitalize our business, our employees are learning these sought-after skills.
“We are digitalizing our business processes in many ways, including through a single end-to-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform.
“This ERP platform will meet our business’ current and future needs, across all our markets, while providing data driven real-time business intelligence.
CCBA is also accelerating its participation in the digital economy through its e-commerce platform, MyCCBA. The platform assists sales teams by empowering customers to place orders directly with CCBA online, from any device, at any time, to better meet their needs.
“By investing in MyCCBA, we enhance the customer experience of our fastest-growing channel, ensuring customer loyalty and repeat business,” said Albertyn.
This platform is currently rolled out in South Africa and Kenya, with over 34,000 registered customers in South Africa and over 3,500 customers in Kenya, with up to 5,500 daily visitors to the site. Mozambique and Ethiopia have also just launched, with two more countries planned in 2023.
These initiatives will accelerate CCBA’s operations to world-class levels, equipping employees with valuable skills in an increasingly digital world of work.
“At CCBA, we have an inspiring work environment, where highly skilled people feel challenged, engaged and motivated,” said Albertyn.
CCBA also supports youth to become more employable through its Graduates in Training programmes.
Last year, for example, CCBA in Mozambique recruited graduates in the fields of Mechatronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Transportation, Mechanical Engineering and Informatics and Telecommunication Engineering.
The company established partnerships with public and private universities across the country and signed a partnership with a non-profit organization, Field Ready, to support the recruitment and selection of talented graduates in training.
The graduates each have a one-year contact and need to develop a project or more in each function according to the needs of the function, with some focusing on resolving operational issues and others developing custom apps.
In Namibia, half the students recruited into CCBA in Namibia’s Graduate Internship Training programme were female. They will be intensively trained, coached and exposed to various functions and will be expected to bring new ideas, innovation, passion and drive to the company. The programme runs over 12 months, after which the opportunity exists to be considered for a permanent placement in the company.
“Our aim is to create greater shared opportunity for the business and the communities we serve across the value chain. Opportunity is more than just money, it’s about a better future for people and their communities everywhere on the African continent,” said Albertyn.
“When we grow our business the right way, not just the easy way, we help create inclusive growth opportunities for our communities, women and youth, our customers, our employees and our shareholders, for a better shared future.”

Voltic MD joins high panel discussion on addressing Ghana’s plastic menace

EHazel — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:47:35 +0000

Accra – Voltic (GH) Limited Managing Director, Flora Jika, has renewed the company’s commitment to a 100% collection rate at a National Blue Economy Summit, held in Accra last week with the theme “Our Ocean’s Heath, Our Prosperity, Our Planet’s Security”.

The Summit was organized by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Advisory Unit of the Office of the President, in partnership with the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ghana, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It aimed to mobilize transformative actions to sustainably manage the ocean towards the achievement of the SDGs.

Speaking at the opening of the summit, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo pledged Ghana’s commitment to ensuring sustainable ocean management and called for a renewed commitment from all stakeholders to SDG 14 to protect life below water.

President Akufo-Addo proposed five agenda points for sustainable ocean management, including robust regulations, strategic partnerships, smart investments, research and innovation, and international collaboration.

Participating in a panel discussion at the summit, Jika said: “It is our responsibility to safeguard the ocean and as a business, we have a commitment to collect for recycling 100% of what we sell by 2030.”

As a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), Voltic is a proud industry leader in developing increasingly sustainable ways to manufacture, distribute and sell its products.

Food and beverage packaging is an important part of our modern lives, yet the world has a packaging problem, which Voltic, together with The Coca-Cola Company, has a responsibility to help solve.

The company’s commitment is to invest in its packaging, to help make the world’s packaging problem a thing of the past, working in partnership with The Coca-Cola Company which launched a sustainable packaging initiative called World Without Waste in 2018.

Across the markets where it operates, CCBA has committed to help collect a bottle for every one it sells by 2030, make all of its packaging 100% recyclable by 2025 and make 25% of its packaging reusable by 2030

Hollandia products rake in accolades at Beverage Awards

EHazel — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 15:15:42 +0000

Accra – Hollandia dairy products, produced by Voltic (GH) Limited, have once again taken top honours at the Ghana Beverage Awards, where Hollandia Yoghurt and Hollandia Choco Malt were named Dairy Product of the Year and New Beverage of Year, respectively.

This is the second year in a row that Hollandia Yoghurt has been awarded Dairy Product of the Year and an impressive win on debut for Hollandia Choco Malt, which Voltic, a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), launched only last year.

Hollandia Yoghurt is a tasty, nourishing yoghurt drink that combines the goodness of yoghurt with the vitamins of fruit. It has a great smooth taste and comes in six nutritious variants, all in handy packs.

Hollandia Choco Malt Drink is a ready-to-drink, 3-in-1 product fortified with the goodness of milk, energy-giving classic malt, and a rich chocolate taste. Hollandia Choco Malt comes in handy pack sizes which contain an adequate quantity for individual consumption, as well as fitting into the lifestyle of both children and adults.

“People everywhere want new beverages and experiences throughout their day and, as the largest franchised bottler of The Coca-Cola Company in Africa, CCBA is innovating to give people more of what they want while actively encouraging informed choices and balanced lifestyles,” said Voltic Managing Director, Flora Jika.

“In some cases, that means adding vitamins and minerals or rethinking our recipes to reduce sugar while keeping the great tastes people love. In others, it means finding more sophisticated, exciting flavours.

“Across the markets we serve, CCBA is also focused on different beverages like tea, coffee, value-added dairy, juices, traditional drinks, sparkling water and hard seltzers — to name just a few,” said Jika.

“Hollandia Yoghurt and Hollandia Choco Malt Drink add to our growing range of beverages for every taste.

“It is because of the support from the communities and the government that we have been able to create local sourcing opportunities through the production of the Hollandia range of products in Ghana. We have also been able to create inclusive growth opportunities, a cause CCBA is committed to,” Jika said.

“We are delighted by the recognition of these consumer favourites at the Ghana Beverage Awards.”