Coca-Cola has opened a new bottling plant in Wuhan’s East Lake District. It is the soft drinks giant’s 39th bottling plant in China, and the third to open in 2009. With an investment of Rmb600m, it is Coca-Cola China’s largest single investment in still beverage production facilities. It will make a range of drink brands including Minute Maid juice drinks, Minute Maid Pulpy Milky, Qoo-series juice drinks, and tea products such as Nestea and Original Leaf.

The plant will employ 200 workers and will indirectly generate another 2,000 jobs including suppliers and distributors.

Meanwhile, arch-rival Pepsi has opened a new plant in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province.
In the next two years, Pepsi will set up additional beverage plants in Kunming, Zhengzhou, Quanzhou, Lanzhou, and Nanchang.