Responding to the medical and humanitarian crisis of COVID-19, HCCB, one of India's leading FMCG companies, helped expand the relief efforts to more than 2 lakh people impacted by the pandemic in its local communities across India.

A bevy of rules, regulations and notifications reigned during the lockdown. Navigating through them and ensuring compliance was a task. One that the HCCB team persisted with and sailed through. A simple, ingenuous excel dashboard had become the guiding light. Find out how HCCB carried out its business amidst lockdown.

Georgia – the premium range of hot and cold tea and coffee - has carved a niche for itself. Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB) is the sole supplier of these beverages. Abhishek Gupta, VP, Key Accounts and Commercial Beverages and Prathamesh Mehendale, National Head, Commercial Beverages, talk about the road that lies ahead.

HCCB's factory located in Nemam near Chennai has recently added a new Hot Fill PET Juice Line to produce Maaza Mango. Designed for both safety and longevity of products, the new hot filling PET juice line is equipped with sophisticated and automated processes with a speed of 430 bottles per minute. With a provision of further expansion to produce milk or dairy products like smoothie, the new line is also capable of running Maaza Refresh and all variants of Minute Maid.

HCCB won the prestigious Corporate Governance Excellence Award for 2019-20 at the India Legal Awards function held in Mumbai recently. Ms. Preeti Balwani, General Counsel, HCCB along with her team members received the award in the presence of legal luminaries and the crème la de crème of the legal and corporate world. Former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Deepak Verma was part of the jury that comprised several other stalwarts. Instituted by Legal Era, India's top legal magazine, the awards aim to recognize the legal finesse, innovation & achievements of lawyers, law firms and corporate legal teams.