Great place to work

Coca-Cola employees and London 2012

The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are an exciting milestone for us.  We want to use the Games to focus all our employees' minds on achieving their own personal best; something that is genuinely better than they have every done before.  We want to use the power of the Games to inspire the passion and talent of our people to accelerate our plans to create an even stronger business for years to come.  Employees have several opportunities to prove exceptional achievement and be within touching distance of a unique London 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games reward, with the chance of winning exciting Olympic experiences and a possible once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to carry the iconic Olympic Flame in the Olympic Torch Relay.

Academy of Excellence

A number of athletes are hoping to be selected for Team GB and Paralympics GB at the Olympic Games have been gaining work experience at Coca-Cola Enterprises and Coca-Cola Great Britain in 2010 through our Academy of Excellence partnership.  Through work placements the athletes get the opportunity to learn about business and find out about opportunities in the commercial world.  Our colleagues gain from seeing at first hand what makes a top athlete tick.

Coca-Cola Great Britain

We continue to work hard to make sure that Coca-Cola Great Britain is a great place to work.  Each member of the executive team has responsibility for a specific element of our culture and working environment.  They report on their area of responsibility at monthly executive team meetings.

 We have a Great Place To Work (GPTW) Team, which is made up of employee representatives from each of our departments.  The aim of the group is to develop our GPTW programme and positively influence our work culture.

Key areas covered in the programme include:

• Employee engagement
• Employee wellbeing
• Opportunities to make a difference in the community
• Coca-Cola Great Britain as an employer of choice for existing and potential employees

The GPTW programme has brought benefits to many areas of work.  These include:

• Work-life balance initiatives - summer hours and flexible working
• Cross-functional team events - team days, social events and team breakfasts
• More effective communications - monthly team briefing sessions and daily communications from the press
• Wellbeing- our Cycle to Work scheme, the on-site gym and a subsidised restaurant
• Environment -Thames river clean ups, a green allowance (an incentive for employees to use public transport) and personal carbon footprinting sessions

• Community -year-round fund-raising involvement with Special Olympics GB

Coca-Cola Enterprises

At Coca-Cola Enterprises our University Talent Programme (UTP) helps us focus on attracting, developing and retaining a highly talented and diverse workforce. We are focused on strengthening our reputation as a high-performing organisation that is committed to achieving world-class employee engagement levels and is recognised as an employer of choice in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry.

During the three-year programme, the graduates will gain experience working for

Coca-Cola Enterprises in various functions, including field sales, customer management, marketing and supply chain.