Coca Colareason 02 of 4it can hold its price and keep the customerderived 2026-09-08accession 0001628280-26-050503
The concentrate-based business model insulates the Company from manufacturing cost volatility while enabling pricing initiatives to flow through to margin expansion. Because bottlers bear production and distribution costs, higher commodity costs can be partially offset by pricing actions without the Company absorbing the full input cost increase itself.
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no findingread · nothing bore on it
It held on this filing. No finding was written because nothing in it bore on the reason — the sentences it was read against are below.
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the claims it rests on
“Gross profit margin increased to 62.9% for both the three and six months ended July 3, 2026, compared to 62.4% and 62.5% for the prior year periods respectively”
“The increases were primarily due to the favorable impact of pricing initiatives and foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, partially offset by higher commodity costs”
“The Company sells concentrates and syrups to bottling partners who manufacture finished products”
what it was checked against
concentrate-based sales model
“The Company sells concentrates and syrups to both consolidated and unconsolidated bottling partners.”
bottler bears downstream costs
“When we sell concentrates or syrups to our unconsolidated bottling partners, we recognize the concentrate revenue and concentrate sales volume when the concentrates or syrups are sold to the bottling partner.”
pricing and cost factors separated
“Factors that management must estimate include, among others, the economic lives of the assets, sales volume, pricing, royalty rates, cost of raw materials, delivery costs, long-term growth rates, discount rates, marketing spending, foreign currency exchange rates, tax rates, capital spending and proceeds from the sale of assets.”