21.  The deal helps the industry, he said, because it maintains strong brands for independent bottling companies, allowing them to compete against Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola.

22.  The new bottling company may then acquire small independent bottlers.

23.  The offices of Coke and its bottling companies were targeted in Austria, Denmark and Germany.

24.  The new division will help Panamco, as the bottling company is known, officials said.

25.  Today the parent company got another Latin American headache when Coca-Cola Co. signed an agreement in Venezuela with the Cisneros bottling companies, a long-time PepsiCo partner.

26.  What you have now is a pure soft drink company with large equity investments in bottling companies around the world.

27.  A billion dollar takeover of a British bottling company by Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. got the go-ahead Wednesday from European Union antitrust authorities.

28.  A billion dollar takeover of a British bottling company by Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. was approved Wednesday by European Union antitrust authorities.

29.  Both reports said Thao made similar attempts to blackmail other bottling companies but failed.

30.  Cadbury plans to merge the Texas bottler with its own bottling company to form the largest independent soft-drink bottler in the United States.