About Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Holdings

Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Holdings Inc. engages in the soft drink, and healthcare and skincare businesses. Businesses Soft Drink Business The company offers sparkling, coffee, and tea beverages, as well as mineral water. The company also offers sports drinks, fruit juices, and lactic drinks. Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Zero, Fanta, Georgia, Aquarius, Sokenbicha, Ayataka and I LOHAS are the company’s core eight brands. The company provides products to consumers from various locations, such as vending machines, supermarkets, convenience stores and restaurants. In the vending channel, the company’s products are delivered directly to consumers through approximately 360 thousand vending machines. In the company’s chain store channel, it provides product line-ups according to consumer needs and implemented campaigns tailored for each season and events at supermarkets and convenience stores. In the retail and food services channel, the company is proposing optimum portfolio and sales methods for station/hospital kiosk, restaurants and bars. The company conducts business activities based on a bottler agreement with The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola (Japan) Co., Ltd. The Coca-Cola System in Japan consists of the Coca-Cola (Japan) Co., Ltd., which engages in planning/development of products, as well as producing syrup concentrates and advertising; and bottling companies engaging in manufacturing/selling products in various regions across Japan, as well as other affiliated companies. Healthcare and Skincare Business The Healthcare and Skincare Business is conducted by the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Q’sai Co., Ltd. and its four subsidiaries. The company is producing healthcare products. Products are delivered through home shopping and retail stores. The company has released various products, including the healthcare products ‘Kale Powder’, ‘Hiza Support Collagen’, and ‘Glucosamine Z’, as well as the skincare product ‘Cola-rich’. Healthcare Products Kale Powder: The company’s ‘Kale Powder’ contains various nutrients, which tend to be insufficient in the human diet, such as beta-carotene, calcium, potassium, Vitamin C and dietary fiber, which is useful to supplement shortages in vegetables. Hiza Support Collagen: Hiza Support Collagen is the food that claims knee joint support in Japan. Hiza Support Collagen contains a functional substance ‘collagen peptide’ and shows its effectiveness when bending and stretching knee joints. Skincare Products ‘Cola-rich’ Series: ‘Cola-rich’ is a beauty gel cream, with all the functions of a lotion, milky lotion, serum and skin cream contained in one product. In 2015, at the intention of improving sales, the company strives to enrich the product lineup of the ‘Cola-rich’ series by newly launching related items, such as ‘Cola-rich Medicated Whitening BB Cream’, which enables skin whitening and makeup; ‘Cola-rich Medicated Whitening Gel Cream’, which is a gel cream with moisturizing properties and whitening functionality; and ‘Cola-rich Night Cream Repair’ containing beauty ingredients to give skin resilience. Growth Strategies The company’s growth strategies include reinforcing existing business; building new growth businesses; advancing value chain processes; and enabling a high-quality, low-cost operation structure. History The company was founded in 1960. It was formerly known as Coca-Cola West Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Inc. in 2017. Further, the company changed its name to Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Holdings Inc. in January 2018.