2007 Shareholder Review - Coca-Cola Amatil

Year in Review continuedOutlook for 2008CCA’s strategy to focus on organic growth over thelast two years has proven to be the correct path,and our management team is highly focussed ondelivering leading brands to the market. As a result,the Company is in excellent shape to respond tochanges in economic conditions.The priorities for 2008 will be thecontinued expansion of CCA’s nonalcoholicand premium alcoholicbeverage portfolio and furtherrealising the benefits of its Trans-Tasman business integrationprogram. This will be achievedthrough significant capital andtechnology investments in Australiaand New Zealand in cold drinkequipment, automated warehousing,systems infrastructure and increasedbeverage production capacity.We have some exciting new productlaunches in the pipeline for this year,with our major new product for theyear, Glacéau Vitamin Water,launched in Australia in February.Glacéau has been a huge successin the United States where it nowleads the enhanced water category.CCA is on track to continuethe expansion of its multi-beveragestrategy in 2008The consumer spendingenvironment will have challenges in2008 with interest rate rises, higherpetrol prices and higher foodinflation. However, on the plus side,employment in Australia and newdemand remains very strong andthere are income tax cuts legislatedfor July. With the sale of the SouthKorean business, our balance sheetis very strong and the 4.7 timesEBIT interest cover is the highestinterest cover in over 10 years.We expect to be able to delivergood revenue growth in 2008.At this early stage, we remainoptimistic that our strongperformance in 2007 hasestablished a sound platformfor 2008 and that the businessis in excellent shape to respondappropriately to changes ineconomic conditions orconsumer sentiment.6 CCA Shareholder Review 2007 Year in Review