2010
• Overall favourite brand, Sunday Times Top Brands Awards
• Company doing the most to uplift community, Sunday Times Top Brands Awards
• Marketing Personality of the Year, Zayd Abrahams, head of marketing for sparkling beverages at The Coca-Cola Company
• Best Business to Consumer Soft Drink, Sunday Times Top Brands Awards

Improving the quality of life in the communities where we operate has always been an integral part of Coca-Cola's business model, be it through promoting active lifestyles and well-being, assisting in economic development or supporting a range of social upliftment programmes.

More than 80% of Coca-Cola branded products are produced and distributed by locally-owned bottling companies, enabling Coca-Cola to stay in touch with the dynamic social contexts in our operating environments, whilst contributing to the development of local economic potential.

In 2001 the company established The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) to co-ordinate social funding on the continent across four focus areas, namely health, education, environment and entrepreneurship.

The CCSA Business Unit is able to work within these four areas to identify projects that meet specific local priorities, while still contributing to holistic socio-economic development on the continent through our sustainability framework ‘Live For a Difference'.

Through TCCAF, one of our flagship programmes is the Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN) - a commitment of US$30 million to provide at least 2 million Africans with clean water and sanitation by 2015. TCCAF currently has water projects in 19 African countries - Angola, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Cote d' Ivoire, Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia reaching over 300,000 people. This is done in partnership with, and co-funded by USAID (United States Agency for International Development) under the Water and Development Alliance (WADA) and includes other partners.

In addition, the programme will provide over 5 million people with sanitation and hygiene education, contribute to at least 16 billion litres of water for communities across Africa and will include the launch of over 100 healthy watershed and sustainable community water access, sanitation and hygiene programmes across Africa.

Specifically in South Africa, the TCCAF and the South African government have invested nearly R30 million for the Water for Schools programme.

RAIN complements the Company's water stewardship goal of balancing the amount of water it returns to nature with that used in the production of its beverages. The Company's strategy for achieving this goal has three components:

• Reduce - Improving water efficiency by 20 per cent by 2012, compared to baseline year 2004.
• Recycle - Returning all water the Company uses for manufacturing processes to the environment at a level that supports aquatic life and agriculture by the end of 2010.
• Replenish - Expanding the Company's support of healthy watersheds and sustainable community water programmes to balance the water used in its finished beverages.

As of 1st December 2008, 255,000 people in communities across 19 countries in Africa have access to improved water supply, 40,000 people have access to improved sanitation and 440,000 hectares of land are under improved management.

For more information about RAIN and other projects of the TCCAF, please visit:

https://secure.thecoca-colaafricafoundation.org/index.asp

• PETCO is the trading name of the PET Recycling Company (Pty) Ltd and represents the South African plastic industry's first joint effort to self-regulate post-consumer Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) recycling.
• Rand Water is Africa's largest water utility.
• South African Water Research Commission acts as the county's knowledge hub around research and issues on water.
• The Department of Water Affairs is the custodian of South Africa's water resources. It is primarily responsible for the formulation and implementation of policy governing this sector.
• National Development Agency contributes towards the eradication of poverty and its causes by granting funds to civil society organisations.

We have a system-wide sustainability framework entitled ‘Live For a Difference', which guides our work on continually improving our environmental performance and creating environmentally friendly products. L4AD is The Coca-Cola Company's commitment to making a positive and meaningful difference in the communities which we serve. The focus areas of this sustainability platform are community, environment, marketplace and workplace.

In 2009, we introduced our breakthrough PlantBottle PET package - the only recyclable bottle made partially (30%) from plant-based materials that can meet our stringent beverage quality requirements. PlantBottle is the first of its kind and the first plastic bottle from renewable sources that can be recycled along with other PET plastic bottles in the existing recycling infrastructure. It uses sugar-based ethanol to produce the same PET plastic used today. Less petrol and energy is used to produce this PlantBottle compared to normal plastic bottles, thus creating a smaller carbon footprint.

In South Africa, our VALPRE water bottles will all be bottled in PlantBottles before the end of this year. We also plan to use PlantBottle packaging in every bottle we sell by 2020. And in Heidelberg, we will soon be opening a bottling plant that will be our first LEED-certified plant in South Africa.

In addition to creating ‘green products' we put a lot of effort in ‘greening' our systems and operations. Three of our ‘Live for a Difference' pillars address the environment:
(i) Energy efficiency and climate protection;
(ii) Sustainable packaging; and
(iii) Water stewardship.

We have set ourselves at least three goals and aspirations to achieve under each of these pillars, such as:
• Reducing our absolute emissions from our manufacturing operations in developed countries by 5% by 2015, compared with a 2004 baseline;
• Improving our packaging material efficiency per litre of product sold by 7% by 2015, compared to 2008 baseline; and
• Improve our water efficiency by 20% by 2012, compared with 2004 baseline.

For more information about our ‘Live for a Difference' programme and our targets, please visit: http://www.cocacola.co.za/lfad_intro.aspx