Coca-Cola in talks with potential new Zimbabwe bottling partners

Global beverage giant, Coca-Cola Company, says it is in talks with a potential new partner and expressed its long-term commitment to the Zimbabwean market.

Coca-Cola Company last month reportedly issued a notice to terminate its agreement with Delta Beverages, following the acquisition of SABMiller by AB InBev, a bottler of rival Pepsi products.

Delta Beverages was previously a subsidiary of London-headquartered SABMiller before its acquisition by AB InBev.

Company public affairs and communications manager, Meghna Laxman MacDonald said Coca-Cola would continue to serve its customers in Zimbabwe, as it had been doing for the past 68 years.

MacDonald said a recent PriceWaterHouse Coopers study showed that Coca-Cola's contribution for 2015 was 1,5% of Zimbabwe's gross domestic product and 0,9% of the country's total employment.