Bottler Coca Cola HBC to Step Up Marketing Push After Strong Q3 Sales

Bottler Coca Cola HBC to Step Up Marketing Push After Strong Q3 Sales
Bottles of Coca-Cola at a Carrefour Hypermarket store in Montreuil near Paris on Feb. 5, 2018. Regis Duvignau/Reuters
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Coca Cola HBC will step up investment in marketing next year, Chief Executive Zoran Bogdanovic said on Wednesday, after the bottler posted higher third-quarter sales as people returned to visiting restaurants and pubs.

With input cost pressures high, the Switzerland-based company will also implement further “slight” price increases in the fourth quarter and 2022, it said.