France’s oldest Coca-Cola factory will close its doors. The Clamart site in Hauts-de-Seine, built in 1965, will close definitively at the end of 2025. The announcement was made official on Wednesday 15 February by Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) France, the bottling company and marketing. Atlanta (Georgia) Group brands such as Sprite, Fanta, Fuse Tea, Minute Maid, Powerade, Tropico, Monster as well as all variations of Coca-Cola. Brands in the media spotlight this summer in France, Coca-Cola is one of the main sponsors of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Clamart Factory “ Today it is located in the middle of a rapidly developing urban area, which limits activities and significantly limits any development potential of the site in the medium term, thus compromising the group’s competitiveness in France., A press release justifies the company. The restructuring should cut 47 jobs.
In addition, 106 positions are planned to be relocated to the Grini site in Essonne. The factory will be the only Coca-Cola bottling site in Ile-de-France and will house production lines for 50 cl recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles and packaging-free products for bagged fast food. -Box and Mega Bag-in-Box are now installed in Clamart.
Portfolio expansion
Additionally, a returnable glass production line with a maximum capacity of 60,000 bottles per hour will be installed. It should allow bottling of still and carbonated beverages in various container sizes, from 25 cl or 33 cl bottles to one liter bottles available in cafes and restaurants. On this occasion, the company announces an investment project of 32 million euros. In 2023, the site was already the subject of a financial commitment of 114 million euros to reduce the carbon footprint of its activities.
CCEP currently has five factories in France and 2,500 employees. Its other three industrial sites are located in Marseille, Toulouse and Dunkirk (North), noting that the northern factory is the largest and represents around 30% of the volume of packaged drinks in France. It has continued to increase its product range in line with the expansion of Coca-Cola’s product portfolio. CCEP would also like to point out that it has created 113 positions in 2023 between its various sites. It also states that 95% of Coca-Cola drinks marketed in France are produced in France and therefore by itself. The weight of bottles and cans made a location almost mandatory.
