Industry: Beverages-Non-Alcoholic

Sector: Consumer Defensive

Embotelladora Andina S.A., together with its subsidiaries, produces, markets, and distributes Coca-Cola trademark beverages in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. It offers fruit juices, other fruit-flavored beverages, sport drinks, flavored waters, and mineral and purified water; hard seltzers; polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles and preforms, returnable PET bottles, cases, and plastic caps; ice tea and mate beverages, as well as sells and distributes lactose free dairy products; and seed-based beverages. The company also distributes energy drinks, wine, cider, and spirits; ice cream and other frozen products under the Guallarauco brand; and beer under the Bavaria, Kaiser, Sol, Therezpolis, Estrella Galcia, Tiger, and Eisenbahn brands. It offers its products primarily through small retailers, restaurants and bars, supermarkets, and distributors. Embotelladora Andina S.A. was incorporated in 1946 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.

ANDINA BOTTLING CO INC is evaluated using Mavefund's quality framework: growing earnings, durable profit margins, conservative leverage, strong return on equity, and disciplined share repurchases.