Ahmet Muhtar Kent (born December 1, 1952) is a Turkish-American business executive. He was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Coca-Cola Company . He became CEO in 2008, and chairman in 2009, leaving those positions in 2016 and 2019 respectively.
17-681: Quincey may refer to: People [ edit ] James Quincey (born 1965), CEO of The Coca Cola Company Kyle Quincey (born 1985), Canadian ice hockey player Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859), English author and intellectual Fictional characters [ edit ] Quincey Morris , an American character in Bram Stoker's horror novel Dracula Places [ edit ] Quincey, Côte-d'Or , France Quincey, Haute-Saône , France Ferreux-Quincey , Aube, France See also [ edit ] Quincy (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
34-553: A plan to recycle a bottle for every bottle sold by 2030. On 24 April 2019, Quincey was elected chairman of the board. In December 2021 Quincey announced the planned discontinuation of many of its slower selling products, such as Tab and Zico coconut water. In 2023, Quincey's total compensation from Coca-Cola was $ 24.7 million, or 1,799 times the median employee pay at Coca-Cola for that year. Quincey and his wife Jacqui have two children and live in London, UK. Muhtar Kent Kent
51-674: A region from the Alps to the Himalayas . Living in Vienna , Austria, he served at this post until 1995. Promoted further, Muhtar Kent became in 1995 managing director of Coca-Cola Amatil-Europe. In two years, he increased the turnover of the company about 50%, which covered bottling operations in 12 European countries. In 1999, Kent left the Coca-Cola Company after 20 years. Returning to Turkey, Kent became CEO of Efes Beverage Group at Anadolu Group,
68-484: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages James Quincey James Robert B. Quincey (8 January 1965) is a British businessman based in the United States. After starting his career at Bain & Co , he joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1996 and was later named chief operating officer (COO). He is now the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) at
85-586: Is fluent in Spanish. After working with Bain & Co and a smaller consultancy, he joined Coca-Cola in 1996. With Coke, he has lived in Latin America and worked in Mexico, where he led the acquisition of Jugos del Valle. In 2015, Quincey became the president of Coca-Cola. He outlined a plan to have five category clusters for brands in the company. He also changed management and the entire Coke hierarchy. He
102-841: The National Committee on United States-China Relations . He is an invitee of the Bilderberg Group and attended the Greece 2009 Bilderberg conference at the Astir Palace resort in Vouliagmeni , Greece. In May 2014, Kent was awarded an honorary degree by the Georgia Institute of Technology . In December 2016, Coca-Cola announced that Kent would step down as CEO in May 2017, to be replaced by president and COO James Quincey . Kent continued as
119-554: The US-ASEAN Business Council . He was appointed as a member of the Eminent Persons Group for ASEAN by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton. He serves on the boards of Special Olympics International, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Catalyst and Emory University. He received an honorary doctorate from Oglethorpe University in 2008. He serves on the board of directors of The American Turkish Society and
136-630: The company's chairman. He stepped down as chairman in April 2019. In 2016, he was inducted as a Georgia Trustee, an honor given by the Georgia Historical Society in conjunction with the Governor of Georgia to individuals whose accomplishments and community service reflect the ideals of the founding body of Trustees , which governed the Georgia colony from 1732 to 1752. In 2016, Kent was mentioned as
153-528: The company. James Robert B. Quincey was born on 8 January 1965 in London, England, UK and lived in Hanover, New Hampshire , US for three years when his father was a lecturer in biochemistry at Dartmouth College . By age five, they had moved to Birmingham , England. He attended private King Edward's School, Birmingham and has a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from the University of Liverpool . He
170-414: The country in trucks to sell Coca-Cola, and thereby learned its distribution , marketing and logistics systems. In 1985, he was promoted to the general manager position of Coca-Cola Turkey and Central Asia, and transferred the headquarters of the company from İzmir to Istanbul . Three years later, he was appointed president of the company's East Central Europe Division, responsible for 23 countries in
187-604: The largest local shareholder of the Coca-Cola franchise in Turkey and one of Europe's largest beverage businesses. He extended the company's territory from Serbia to Pakistan. One issue concerns his personal ethics. In 1996, Kent was judged guilty of insider trading in civil court in Australia, where he held a senior-level position at Coca-Cola Amatil Ltd., a regional bottler based in Sydney. He
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221-544: Was appointed president and chief operating officer of the company's North Asia, Eurasia and Middle East group, a position reporting directly to chairman and chief executive officer Neville Isdell . Muhtar Kent's rise continued and he was promoted in January 2006, to the newly created position of president of international operations. In this capacity, he was responsible for all operations outside of North America, and all group presidents outside of North America reported to him. Kent
238-577: Was born in 1952 in New York City, where his father, Necdet Kent , was the consul-general of Turkey . After completing high school at Tarsus American College in Mersin , Turkey in 1971, Muhtar Kent went to the UK to study at the University of Hull . Subsequently, he earned an MBA degree at Cass Business School , London. Kent found a job at the Coca-Cola Company in Turkey through a newspaper ad in 1978. He toured
255-653: Was named CEO in December 2016. He became CEO the following May when Muhtar Kent retired. Among his first acts as CEO, he announced reducing 1,200 corporate positions as part of a plan to invest in new products and marketing and restore the year's revenue and profit growth from four to six percent. Quincey also said in interviews that he wanted to rid the Coke company's culture of over-cautiousness concerning risk, and that he intended to further diversify Coke's portfolio by accelerating investments in startup businesses. He later launched
272-698: Was named chief executive officer (CEO), effective July 1, 2008. He became chairman of the company almost a year later, on April 23, 2009. By 2015, it was reported he was paid $ 25 million a year by the Coca-Cola Company. Kent is co-chair of the Consumer Goods Forum , a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, a member of the Business Roundtable , a past chairman of the US-China Business Council, and current chairman emeritus of
289-664: Was required not only to give up the profit he made of $ 324,000, but also pay $ 30,000 to cover the cost of an investigation by the Australian Securities Commission. Kent has since claimed that his then financial adviser sold short some 100,000 shares of the company on Kent's behalf a mere hours before the profit announcement. In the event, the Australian controversy continued to dog him because two years later - in 1998 - Kent resigned from Coca-Cola Amatil-Europe. In May 2005, Kent rejoined Coca-Cola after almost six years and
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