The Coca-Cola Company has signed letters of intent to refranchise bottling operations that serve a large area of the US.###The transactions include territories in Texas and parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arkansas, which is an area currently known as the Southwest operating unit of Coca-Cola Refreshments.###Under letters of intent, The Coca-Cola Company will contribute the Southwest operating unit, including distribution and production operations, in exchange for a 20% equity stake in a new, privately held entity. ###This entity, AC Beverages, will also include all of Arca Continental’s existing beverage businesses innaturebell magnesium citrate Latin America. ###Arca Continental, which is based in Monterrey, Mexico, will continue to be publicly traded on the Mexican Stock Exchange.###Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, based in Birmingham, Alabama, will become a joint-venture partner in the US operations of AC Beverages. ###Arca Continental will have the majority stake in this US joint venture, where both companies will work with local teams in a partnership to benefit the important markets in which they participate.###United will acquire from The Coca-Cola Company the majority of its remaining territory in Oklahoma. ###It will contribute that territory, along with cash, to its US joint venture with AC Beverages.###United will continue to independently operate all of its other territories, which are outside of its joint venture with AC21st century calcium plus Beverages.###Separately, Ozarks Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Springfield, has signed a letter of intent to acquire territories owned by The Coca-Cola Company in northwest Arkansas and small areas in Kansas and Oklahoma.###The letters of intent facspring valley calcium citrate 600mg 300countilitates The Coca-Cola Company to refranchise Company-owned North American bottling territories. ###This work is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.###Currently, Arca Continental is the second-largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America and the third-largest independent bottler in the world in terms of unit case volume.###The AC Beverages/United joint venture will be based in the United States. ###It will become a member of the National Product Supply Group (NPSG). ###The NPSG, as previously announced, will administer key activities for member bottlers, including production of cold-fill beverages. ###The NPSG is governed by a board comprised of representatives from its current members, which are Coca-Cola North America, Coca-Colapara que es el magnesium citrate Refreshments, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, Coca-Cola Bottling Company United and Swire Coca-Cola, USA.###The AC Beverages/United joint venture will own 11 cold-fill production faciliferrous fumarate mercury pharmaties, of which nine are in Texas. ###The other two facilities are in Oklahoma City and Okmulgee, Okla.