Anchor bottlers are a soft drink manufacturer’s major bottlers around the world. For example, The Coca-Cola Company employed the strategy of "anchor bottlers" to penetrate markets like China, Eastern Europe and Russia.
Notable anchor bottlers include:
- Coca-Cola Refreshments USA, subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company, the company's anchor bottler for the North American market.
- Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, spun out by The Coca-Cola Company in 1986 and now covering Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, as a result of a three-way combination completed on May 28, 2016, of the former Coca-Cola Enterprises, the Coca-Cola bottler covering Spain and Portugal and the Coca-Cola bottler in Germany.
- Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company ("CCHBC") formed from the de-merger of Coca-Cola Amatil's eastern European interests into Coca-Cola Beverages and that company's subsequent merger with the Hellenic Bottling Company, now covering 29 countries in central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Nigeria and Egypt.
- Coca-Cola Amatil covering part of the Scandinavian market from Coca-Cola Nordic Beverages after Orkla and Carlsberg A/S merged their beverages operations, while Coca-Cola took over Swedish and Norwegian activities and the Icelandic factory was sold to local investors.