Business Report - Coca Cola Amatil Limited

Running head: BUSINESS REPORT- COCA COLA AMATIL LIMITED
Business report- Coca Cola Amatil limited
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

1BUSINESS REPORT- COCA COLA AMATIL LIMITED
Executive Summary
The purpose of this project is to assess and study the business report and thereafter analyse
the financial position of the company with respect to its competitors. The composition of the
Board of Directors, its structure and characteristics has been demonstrated in the report. The
auditor independence and the ethical aspects of the company has been also analysed in the
report. Report also comprise of the analysis of the top five investors of the company and the
significance of their stake in the ownership. The financial statement data are taken and then
the liquidity, profitability, cash flow management, asset management efficiency and the
capital structure has been calculated. The report is concluded by the overall financial position
of the company and the implications of the results being derived.

2BUSINESS REPORT- COCA COLA AMATIL LIMITED
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion:.................................................................................................................................3
Brief summary of Coca Cola Amatil Limited:...........................................................................3
Outlining the details of board of directors:................................................................................4
Assessment of the characteristics of the board:.........................................................................7
Important financing or investment decisions made by Cola Cola Amatil in year 2017:...........8
ASX Corporate Governance Council and Coca Cola............................................................9
Company’s Audit Firm........................................................................................................10
Coca Cola Amatil Ethics and the key measures taken by Amatil to ensure ethics in their
business judgment:...................................................................................................................10
Identifying top five investors and evaluating the significance of their ownership stake:........11
Analyzing the financial statements using ratios:......................................................................11
Conclusion:..............................................................................................................................22
References and Bibliography...................................................................................................23

3BUSINESS REPORT- COCA COLA AMATIL LIMITED
Introduction
Financial planning is a very important task performed by the business organisation. It
helps in the smooth functioning of the organisation. It refers to the performing of all such
financial activities that helps the organisation in achieving its organisational goals. It involves
analysis of the balance sheets and the income statements of the organisation, the analysis of
the capital structure and the position of the organisation in the industry (Finkler, Smith and
Calabrese 2018). The management of the financials of the business helps the business in
taking several important decisions related to investment opportunities, credit facilities,
borrowing and lending facilities and cash control. The purpose of this report is to analyse the
overall business position of Coca Cola Amatil Limited with respect to its competitive
industry. The details about the composition of the top management, the investment, the
financing decisions and the investor and the competitor analysis are done in the following
paragraphs. The liquidity, profitability, efficiency, cash flow analysis and the overall
financial performance and status has been also been clearly shown in the below mentioned
topics in order to show a detailed report on the business. This analysis helps the company in
understanding its stability and competitiveness of the organisation.
Discussion:
Brief summary of Coca Cola Amatil Limited:
The Coca-Cola Amatil is one of the largest alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage
distributor and Bottler Company headquartered at Australia. It is one of the major five Coca-
Cola bottler. It also have a diversified product portfolio that includes fruit juices, carbonated
soft drinks, spring water, energy drinks, coffee, tea, flavoured milk and sports drinks. The
company started its operation in the year 1904 as a tobacco company (Ashley 2017). In the
year 1909, the company engaged itself with printing business and then it again expanded its

4BUSINESS REPORT- COCA COLA AMATIL LIMITED
business into the packaging sector followed by the beverage industry in the year 1963. The
company’s initial tag name was the British tobacco, which was changed to Allied
Manufacturing and Trade Industries Limited (AMATIL). In the later period it acquired the
Coca-Cola bottling franchises. In the early 90’s the company was split into two companies
that created a new bottler listed in Europe and named Coca-Cola Beverages Plc. The tobacco
division was sold to the British American Tobacco in the year 1989. The company is
currently the largest bottler and distributor in the Asia-Pacific regions. It has facilities, which
is scattered all over Australia. The Paradise Beverages (Fiji) Limited was acquired by the
company in the year 2012 and it also established the Australian Beer Company in the year
2013, which is a partnership with Casella family. The company is listed in the Australian
Securities exchange and the Coca-Cola Company have around 31% of shareholding in the
Coca Cola Amatil. The company employs around 14700 employees and operates in six
countries across the region of the Asia Pacific. The current business is diversified into
segments, which are Australian beverages, alcohol, coffee, New Zealand, Fiji segments,
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea segment, and SPC (ccamatil.com 2019). The company is
continuously involving itself with the improvement in the financial performance and it will
be shown in the following paragraphs.
Outlining the details of board of directors:
The Board of Directors is composed of the Executive Directors and the Non-
Executive Directors. The list in case of the company is shown with the help of the following
chart.

5BUSINESS REPORT- COCA COLA AMATIL LIMITED
Composition of the board of directors
(Source: ccamatil.com 2019)