How Coca-Cola in Ukraine is giving back this winter
By: Coca-Cola HBC (The Kyiv Independent)
Things go better with Coke!
There is opportunity for profit even in the midst of Armageddon. Kinda puts Congressional exploitation of Death & Destruction, Inc., into proper perspective, don't it though? Hell, they're even gloating that they'll get $trillions from illegal immigration. The powers that be destroy the world but everyone gets a Coke! That's a fair trade, right?
The warning about artificial intelligence was a nice touch, too.
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The bright red label of a Coca-Cola bottle is instantly recognizable to countless people around the world, including Ukrainians.
In the dark days of winter, Coca-Cola is partnering with humanitarian organizations, such as the Ukrainian Red Cross and Caritas Ukraine, to give one million bottles with a special version of this label to those in Ukraine who are the most in need of something bright.
The Ukrainian plant of Coca-Cola is producing a batch of one million 1.5-liter Coca-Cola bottles with "for you" on the label. With these bottles, Coca-Cola aims to bring a little joy to people living in the most difficult circumstances, during the most challenging time of the year.
Coca-Cola "for you" bottles distributed in Ukraine (Coca-Cola Ukraine Press Service)Coca-Cola "for you" bottles distributed by Caritas in Zhytomyr (Coca-Cola Ukraine Press Service)Coca-Cola "for you" bottles distributed in Ukraine with the help of the Ukrainian Red Cross (Coca-Cola Ukraine Press Service)
Some of these are being donated to the D.R.E.A.M. Charitable Foundation, which works together with the Scottish NGO Siobhan's Trust to provide meals to people living in areas closest to the front line.
Bottles will also be given to those facing bereavement, those living with disabilities, and those who have been forced to flee their homes across Ukraine, as well as communities living closest to the front line. The gift of a million bottles represents a gesture of support and solidarity with Ukrainians, Coca-Cola said.
It is not the first time Coca-Cola has partnered with humanitarian organizations to help Ukrainians in winter. In September and October 2023, the Coca-Cola Company joined forces with the Ukrainian Red Cross to fund 45 mobile boilers before the start of the cold winter months, helping communities where heating infrastructure has been destroyed or worn out.
A few boilers will also be given to communities where heat generation is operating normally, in order to provide a backup boiler in case of Russian strikes or emergency shutdowns and accidents.
At a cost of around $3.5 million, the boilers directly provide 50,000 Ukrainians with hot water and heating. Since some of the boilers are connected to the local heating network, not just homes will be heated, but also kindergartens, schools, administrative buildings, and medical facilities. Over 100,000 people will therefore benefit from the project.
A mobile boiler, installed by the Ukrainian Red Cross and Coca-Cola Ukraine (Coca-Cola Ukraine Press Service)A mobile boiler, installed by the Ukrainian Red Cross and Coca-Cola Ukraine (Coca-Cola Ukraine Press Service)A mobile boiler, installed by the Ukrainian Red Cross and Coca-Cola Ukraine (Coca-Cola Ukraine Press Service)
Beyond humanitarian partnerships, Coca-Cola also supports Ukraine by contributing to the wartime economy through paying taxes into the state budget and ensuring its employees can keep doing their jobs. In 2023, the company paid Hr 1.7 billion (over $45 million) in taxes to the state budget.
On a local level, Coca-Cola kept its plant in Velyka Dymerka in Kyiv Oblast operating, despite damage as a result of Russia's invasion, with all 1,500 employees keeping their jobs. Coca-Cola also plans to rebuild the destroyed kindergarten in the nearby village of Bohdanivka.
Damage to the Coca-Cola factory in Velyka Dymerka and the nearby destroyed kindergarten in Bohdanivka. (Coca-Cola Ukraine Press Service)
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the Coca-Cola System, together with The Coca-Cola Foundation, has committed $35 million for charitable assistance to Ukraine.
As well as the cost of the 45 mobile boilers, this figure includes 70,000 food parcels with the most essential basic ingredients, 5,000 bedding sets with warm blankets, and more than 50 power generators for educational, medical, and humanitarian institutions.
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Coca-Cola, official sponsor of military quagmires around the world. Just look, they're gonna rebuild a kindergarten.
In addition to rebuilding the kindergarten, they are doing a lot of other things that are helping Ukraine and Its people, sad that you did list them as well.
Didn't click the link? The seed is advertising by a Ukrainian company inside the war zone. This isn't news, it's marketing to make money off the war.
How is that different than our two shithead Presidents using Russia as a threat? They're not doing that for our benefit.
No! Coka Cola is Not! a "Ukrainian Company"!
They why does Coca-Cola HBC point out that it continues to operate a damaged factory in Velyka Dymerka? Coca-Cola HBC is, indeed, a Ukrainian company operating in Ukraine.
No, Cola Cola is a US company that has bottling plants over the whole damn world, which is exploiting the war for profit.
What, you think US companies don't exploit war?
Stacy Abram's Georgia? Home of the original recipe election denial?
Yeah, yeah, right. And McDonalds is headquartered in Chicago. Yet, here they are: BTW, Coca-Cola also invests in the other Georgia; you know, the Russian one.
All of your lameass intellectual dishonesty bores me...
Coca Cola is American as Chevy and Mom's Apple Pie!
America has been sold out. Didn't get the memo? That's what the two shittiest of shitty Presidents are campaigning on.
Chevy is Mexican. Apple is Chinese. Mom has retired in Vietnam or Costa Rica. And Coca Cola wants to eat everyone's pie.
The bigger question is, should the US attempt to become isolationist. That route didn't work out well in 1941.
Some people seem to hate the Ukrainian people
Nor did it work out well prior to WWI, Korea and Vietnam either, in all of those cases we had let our militry shrink is size and capability and paid the price for that.
Really? Who had the bomb in 1941? Would Tokyo have attacked Pearl Harbor if Roosevelt could have nuked their asses?
The isolationist bullshit sounds like a political argument the two shittiest of shitty Presidents would use for their own political benefit. The dimmest of wits need to recognize that the isolationism before the bomb just ain't possible now. A number of countries can reach out and touch someone anytime they want. And there's not one damn thing we can do to prevent that.
The (Soviet?) Union of Concerned Scientists exploits the impossibility of isolationism in the nuclear age. And they're not fearmongering for our benefit.
No, some people ask the question that should always be asked.
What benefit is Ukraine to the US? What do they provide that we can't provide for ourselves?
The answer is absolutely nothing.
The war has already accomplished it's main task- which is removing Russia as a military threat to the world. If Russia didn't have nukes- NATO/US would be rolling into Moscow right now.
I am trying to figure out which one is worse. Russia's leadership which is still fighting using WWI tactics; or Russia's military equipment which broke, got destroyed, or just generally has been proven to be lacking in every aspect against not even top of the line US arms.
As for Ukrainians themselves. I don't really give a shit about them. Just like they don't give a shit about us. We are just their personal ATM machine.
I might care a little for them if they weren't such fascist pricks. You don't get to ban the Russian language from official government forms and being taught in schools when the vast majority of people in Ukraine speak it. You don't get to imprison your political opponents, shut down opposition parties, and media. You don't get to drive everyone who are not "real" Ukrainians out of the country using the war as a pretense. You sure as hell don't roll fascist parties into the government and military giving them prominent positions in both.
The billions we have wasted in Ukraine would have been better of never having been spent. The national debt cannot take the unfunded proxy wars (which require us to station troops in surrounding countries) all over the world.
This is a European problem let them handle it for a change. But like always they are disinterested at best- waiting for the US to do all of the heavy lifting.