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ajegroup started out as ajedesign in 2008 with the ambition of providing industrial design services .
with its bigger and cheaper bottles, peru' s ajegroup is raiding market share and forcing coke and pepsi to lower their prices .
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ajegroup’s first attempted foray into the beer market was in mexico with a 2005 plan to build a brewery. ananos said ajegroup scrapped that project after mexico enacted a law to tax beer sold in nonreturnable bottles and cans at a higher rate than returnable bottles, a hurdle for new entrants .
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another factor that has contributed to ajegroup’s success is perhaps its partnership with four english premier league clubs, an ambitious marketing move smartly used by the company .
speaking at the reuters latin american investment summit, angel ananos said ajegroup would invest $ 35 million this year in the beverage company’s strategy to expand into brewing beer .
recently, ajegroup has talked of breaking into mexico' s beer market, a segment that analyst lopez - doriga believes will be tough to crack. in the beer industry, retailer exclusivity agreements are legal because of quirks in mexico' s liquor licensing. thus, lopez - doriga said, ajegroup would find a lot of doors closed to its product .
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but as for the company' s goal of grabbing 10% of the mexican soft - drink market by the end of the decade, lopez - doriga said ajegroup was well on its way .
ajegroup initially is aiming for a tenth of peru’s beer market. calling it feasible, he said: “taking 10 percent of the market that is growing at 20 percent is not too aggressive. ”
ajegroup' s first attempted foray into the foreign market was in venezuela, where its international expansion started in 1999. then, in 2000, the company decided to enter in the ecuador market .
peruvian multinational beverage maker ajegroup, with presence in more than 20 countries in latin america, asia and africa, has managed to take on the largest soft drinks companies coca cola and pepsi in asia .
ajegroup, owned by the añaños family, created kola real in 1988, when the peruvian region of ayacucho was being devastated by the terrorist conflicts, leading major beverage suppliers to pull out of business there .
lima (reuters) - peruvian multinational beverage maker ajegroup, which makes its big cola soft drinks in eight nations, says it’s poised to enter the beer market, starting in its home country, its chief executive said on thursday .
ajegroup, one of peru’s leading multinationals, makes and bottles soft drinks in mexico, peru, venezuela, ecuador, costa rica, nicaragua, guatemala and thailand. ananos said it is building a plant in colombia and plans one in honduras .
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ajegroup also saves money on distribution. instead of employing its own fleet of trucks and route drivers, the company farms out deliveries to independent truckers. the company also does little advertising. though it has dabbled with television spots and billboards, it still relies mainly on word of mouth .
that evolution is was you see in front of you today. with ties to poland thanks to previous business, an agreement was founded between andrzej misiak, lgbs, and ajegroup. the outsourcing of highly skilled developers was born. the new company, ajeoutsourcing was launched early january 2015 .
at ajegroup' s largest bottling plant in huejotzingo, two hours east of mexico city, the production lines run 24 hours a day, six days a week churning out big cola and the company' s first line of fruit - flavored sodas. the company, which employs 2, 300 workers in mexico, also has bottling facilities in monterrey and guadalajara .
according to el nuevo diario, the peruvian soft drink company kola real (produced by industrias san miguel del caribe s. a, the dominican branch of ajegroup) has been the first and only private enterprise in the dominican republic to actively support efforts to combat a possible epidemic of cholera in the country. the measure was taken, taking into account the importance of delivering information on precautionary measures to dominican society. minister of public health dr. bautista rojas gómez acknowledged the contribution of industrias san miguel del caribe s. a. , which is investing 40% of its publicity on radio and television to reach all areas of the country .
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the huejotzingo operation produces its own plastic bottles, which whiz down the filling line at a clip of 36, 000 an hour. plastic is a low - cost alternative to glass returnable bottles and has helped b - brands like big cola compete .
lean staffing is another cost - cutting tool. spokesman paredes said the company' s modern equipment, coupled with so - called kaizen, or continuous improvement, techniques, have helped it reduce the number of workers on each of the huejotzingo plant' s seven production lines to eight, which he says is fewer than half that of a typical bottling facility .
although low - income consumers are the brand' s target market, big cola is catching on in higher income brackets as well. at a puebla outlet of mega, a mexican supermarket and discount chain, manager antonio santa cruz said big cola had been gaining favor among his mostly middle - class client base .
bottles of big cola and first were flying off the shelves as part of a holiday promotion offering 3. 3 liters for 86 cents, santa cruz said. nearby, 2. 5 - liter bottles of coca cola were selling for about $ 1. 33, while the same size pepsi was priced at 96 cents .
santa cruz said coke products remained top performers at his store. but big cola has overtaken pepsi as his no. 2 - selling cola brand, accounting for 18% of sales, up from just 8% two years ago. he said shoppers typically tried it for the price but kept buying it for the taste as well .
he noted that breweries were much more expensive to construct than bottling plants. and beer is highly perishable, which could present the company with a host of distribution challenges .
they saw an opening in mexico and they took it ,
he said .
they continue to be very aggressive .
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barring the odd soundbyte around the official launch a few weeks ago, spanish beverage major aje, the owner of big cola, a brand strong in latin america, has opted to maintain a low profile in the indian marketplace - the fourth asian country it has stepped into after thailand, vietnam and indonesia in the last few years .
thanks to its local flavours and discount pricing. india, say officials at the privately - held aje, is demographically similar to the latin american region with a large and growing middle class, youth population and climatic conditions that make it imperative for the beverage major to launch operations here. “india is an important market for us and a country where we felt we could make inroads into, ” says sorin voinea, director ,
aje actually debuted in india in december 2010 when it set - up a bottling plant outside of mumbai, in patalganga, maharashtra. there was some testmarketing of big cola too in and around mumbai, pune and surat last year. but with a formal launch now, its footprint is wider including places such as aurangabad, ahmedabad, goa, indore and navi mumbai besides the cities of mumbai, pune and surat .
in all these locations, big cola, available in three flavours including orange, lime and cola, retails mostly in modern trade including big bazaar (from future group) and d’mart besides allied malls and hypermarkets. price points include rs 12 for a 300 - ml pet bottle, rs 20 for a 500 - ml bottle and rs 40 for a 1. 5 - litre bottle - more or less in line with competition (read coke and pepsi), which are also aggressively priced owing to the low penetration of carbonated beverages in india. india’s per - capita consumption of carbonated beverages is just 20 bottles of 200 ml per person a year as opposed to 92 bottles of 200 ml per person a year, which is the per - capita consumption in mature markets such as the us .
big cola is also not available in returnable glass bottles (rgb), which make up 35 - 40 per cent of sales for a cola company in india, and are key for penetration into traditional trade too .
despite this, devendra chawla, president, food & fast moving consumer goods (fmcg) business, future group, says that the response to the brand has been good at big bazaar. “it is available at big bazaar in mumbai and has done pretty well, ” he says .
but executives at coca - cola say that with modern trade constituting under 10 per cent of sales for a cola company, consumer response to the brand at these outlets cannot be a true measure of its success. “for the cola segment as is the case with most other fmcg categories, traditional trade is still the most critical aspect of the business. if the code can be cracked there, then yes, you will be taken seriously, ” says an official .
voinea declines to indicate whether big cola will be available in mom and pop stores - a segment that is difficult to crack owing to the stranglehold of coke and pepsi in these outlets. “a combination of factors have helped coke and pepsi in traditional trade including providing refrigeration facilities to its strong brand pull, which goads small retailers to stock their products, ” says arvind singhal, chairman, technopak advisors .
ironically, aje has opted for an aggressive distribution strategy in its home turf of latin america, where it dived right into the heart of the cola market with its proprietary cola drink, opting to position it as a brand for the lower - income groups, who found coke and pepsi too high - priced and aspirational .
starting from peru, aje through kola real, as big cola is referred to in this market, saw a ready base when coke and pepsi found it increasingly difficult to distribute their products during the war between guerrillas and government forces in the late 1980s. distributing kola real in recycled beer bottles, aje slowly graduated to marketing it in pet bottles that it produced in - house. today, aje has nearly 30 plants across the world, all controlled by it and vertically integrated .
this, say experts, has allowed the company, which also markets juices, tea, water, beer as well as sports and energy drinks, to keep costs under control as well as to be able to monitor progress and set targets, which is not possible when you have a string of bottlers doing production for you .
to tide over these issue, both coke and pepsi have a mix of franchise bottlers and company - owned units in india to ensure that production is not marred on account of too much dependence on the former. according to industry estimates, coke has 35 - 40 per cent of its overall production coming from bottlers, while the balance 60 - 65 per cent is managed by it at its own production facilities. for pepsi, nearly half its production comes from bottlers, while the balance comes from its own in - house units .
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aje has manufacturing operations in: bolivia, brazil, colombia, costa rica, ecuador, egypt, el salvador, guatemala, honduras, reunion island, mexico, nicaragua, nigeria, panama, peru, venezuela, india, indonesia, thailand and vietnam. and its two corporate headquarters are located in peru and spain .
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aje is one of the largest multinational beverage companies, with presence in over 23 countries in latin america, asia and africa, and with 13, 000 direct and indirect employees .
with 28 years of experience, aje is the 10th largest soft drink company in sales volume and the 4th largest producer of carbonated soft drinks (source: euromonitor, 2011). with a strong commitment to
democratizing consumption ,
aje reaches out to new consumer groups and provides them with access to high quality products at fair prices .
in addition to its flagship brand, big cola, aje’s product portfolio is complemented with brands such as cielo, cifrut, pulp, big fresh, sporade and volt in the water and juices categories, as well as electrolyte and energy drinks .
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as part of the campaign, around 100, 000 informative posters will be distributed by kola real in grocery stores, cafes, restaurants, supermarkets, as well as on fences and walls around the country. all of this is part of the campaigns for social responsibility and awareness that the company undertakes year - round. the kola real staff is especially identified with the needs of the border region and supports the growth and strengthening of all peoples close to the border, in part because this is where its processing plant is located. the mystique of industry san miguel del caribe s. a. , kola real always has been to offer superior quality products, ensuring the welfare of its society, and generating a great number of potential jobs. with this social responsibility campaign, kola real reiterates its commitment to the dominican people .
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one of our main objectives at aje is to position our global drinks brands as “love marks”, i. e. as brands that command both respect and love from our consumers. big cola, big fresh, cielo, cifrut, cool tea, pulp, sporade and volt have established an intimate and emotional relationship with their consumers based on trust .
our distribution model is tailored to answer the specific needs of emerging markets. 92% of aje’s sales are to third party distributors and small retailers. sales through wholesalers represent 8% of our sales. this model is efficient and gives us the ability to enter emerging markets quickly and establish a distribution system that involves a range of local partners and small entrepreneurs. currently, aje has more than 100 distribution centres worldwide. our brands are now available in 23 countries throughout latin america, asia and africa .
our focus on controlling costs at aje is another key to our success. we can offer our consumers high quality products at a fair price due to the constant attention we pay to efficiencies in the whole value chain .
in emerging countries in latin america, asia and africa with high growth potential in the drinks sector. our local partners – who can act as aje’s local franchisees – contribute strong local expertise and market insights to the growth of our brands. aje wants to grow together with its franchise partners and expand the beverage market in new markets .
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coca cola (henceforth cc) is the most recognisable brand name in the world; with further accolades for the company including owning 4 of the world’s top 5 brands, and currently operating in just over 200 countries. cc has faced market stagnation and in some countries, and even a decline in market share in the north american market. the consumer needs in these developed nations have been changing; further, these markets have become very saturated and possess low growth prospects; thus leaving the existing incumbent companies and any others that enter the market to fight for small scraps of market share. statically, ‘40, 000 new consumer package goods are introduced into the united states each year. ’this is further emphasised by vanilla coke having been launched in 30 countries only 1 year after initially launching in the us. therefore, indicating exactly how crowded the markets in developed countries are .
the new beer unit would have the capacity to meet 15 percent of peru’s market, whose size he did not specify .
peru’s beer market, analysts say, is dominated by sabmiller plc sab. lsabj. j. its peruvian unit backus y johnston (
) posted 2006 sales of 1. 569 billion soles ($ 490 million) .
peru has one of the lowest beer consumption rates in latin america, making it an attractive market, sabmiller peru chief executive robert priday told the reuters summit on tuesday .
last year, sabmiller invested $ 102 million in peru and priday forecast even more investments this year .
sabmiller moved into peru in 2005 when it completed its acquisition of colombian - based bavaria, which owned backus .
brazil’s ambev ambv3. sa, a unit of belgium - based inbev intb. br, launched its brahma brand in peru in 2005. analysts say it has won 18 percent of the market in lima .
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the aje group is a peruvian soft drinks company focused exclusively on the developing world and the world’s fourth largest producers of carbonates. its value - orientated brands, most notably big cola and cielo water, have a large presence in latin america and southeast asia. recently the company started operations in africa as well. this report looks at the growth of aje, considers its competitive position, and analyses the likely future expansion of the company .
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an emerging cola brand from peru schools the giants on how to achieve big growth .
aje, the peruvian purveyor of big cola, with global sales of $ 2 billion, has achieved sales growth of an average 22 percent per year from 2000 to 2013. pepsico on the other hand, recently outperformed coca - cola’s negative 1 percent growth in net sales (and 3 percent decline in profits) by reporting a topline growth of 4 percent. aje may be a minnow compared to the big cola companies, but it’s outperforming them .
this promising player interestingly owes its foun­da­tion to the reign of ter­ror by the guer­rilla move­ment sendero lumi­noso (shin­ing path) in the 1980s, which led the añaños fam­ily to flee their farm. forced to think of how to sur­vive, and see­ing the with­drawal of the soft drink giants from the mar­ket, the five sib­lings (four broth­ers and one sis­ter) started mak­ing an orange fla­vored bev­er­age they called kola real in 1988 in their court­yard, bot­tling it in recy­cled beer bot­tles, and sell­ing it door - to - door to neigh­bor­hood res­i­dents and mom and pop out­lets in the city of ayacu­cho !
the prod­uct caught on, and in 1991, the añaños sib­lings founded the aje group to bot­tle and expand the busi­ness, expand­ing to smaller cities like huan­cayo, bagua, and sul­lana first, then pretty much through­out peru in a step - by - step fash­ion, before finally arriv­ing in the peru­vian cap­i­tal, lima, in 1999 .
in 2000 it began inter­na­tional expan­sion, tar­get­ing neigh­bor­ing venezuela and ecuador. in 2002 it entered mex­ico, fol­lowed by the coun­tries of cen­tral amer­ica in 2004. around the same time, it also started to add to its brand port­fo­lio. in 2001 it added bot­tled water under the brand name cielo, in 2005 pulp, a cit­rus fruit drink, and in 2006, spo­rade, a hydrat­ing drink. that same year, it also set up its cor­po­rate head­quar­ters in madrid, spain. in 2010 it entered india, viet­nam, and indone­sia. today, it is present through­out latin amer­ica and the united states. in asia it has expanded in to thai­land as well. and aside from kola real, cielo, pulp, and spo­rade, it also owns cifrut, volt, and the big cola brands .
from the very begin­ning, aje focused on serv­ing less afflu­ent con­sumers, offer­ing lower prices. for exam­ple, to enter lima in 1999, the kola real cam­paign posi­tioned the brand as “ the fair price drink ”. and kola real prices are approx­i­mately 25 percent lower than that of its main mnc com­peti­tors’ offer­ings. to keep prices low, aje needs to keep costs low. it does so by pay­ing close atten­tion to its entire value chain, strip­ping costs aggres­sively wher­ever pos­si­ble. for instance, aje man­u­fac­tures its own bev­er­ages, unlike its mnc com­peti­tors like coca cola and pep­sico, which rely on an exten­sive net­work of inde­pen­dent bot­tlers, because this allows them to pro­duce their bev­er­ages at a lower cost .
aje was also a first mover in to pet bot­tles (recyclable), which are ubiq­ui­tous today. not only were these bot­tles cheaper but they were lighter and less frag­ile, mak­ing them much less expen­sive to buy, use, and dis­trib­ute. to keep costs low, aje invests in part­ner­ing with micro - entrepreneurs who use their own transport to dis­trib­ute aje’s brands. 92 percent of aje’s sales are through such direct part­ner­ships, with only the remain­ing 8 percent going through whole­salers, who are more expen­sive. this dis­tri­b­u­tion model not only helps aje keep costs low, but also enables them to pen­e­trate deep in to its mar­kets, going to remote loca­tions which remain unserved or under­served by their mnc com­peti­tors, and pen­e­trate new mar­kets rapidly .
aje’s suc­cess is not just due to lower costs, it also adapts to local mar­kets. for instance, in asia, it sells a big cola with­out caf­feine, to adapt to local mar­ket needs. or when, in indone­sia, the cur­rency weak­ened, it launched a 300 ml pack priced at 2000 rupiah to remain attrac­tive to its tar­get con­sumers. today, four short years after enter­ing indone­sia, aje holds almost 40 percent of the indone­sian car­bon­ated soft drink market of 1 bil­lion litres per annum !
aje’s suc­cess has drawn the atten­tion of the big mnc oper­a­tors, who have tried com­pet­ing by aggres­sively offer­ing pro­mo­tional prices and increased spend­ing on adver­tis­ing. how­ever, this only works in the short term; poorer con­sumers revert back to aje’s brands once the pro­mo­tional prices are withdrawn .
what is inter­est­ing is that the dom­i­nant mncs in this space, coca cola and pep­sico, seem unable to deliver growth in the way aje does or come up with a clear response to aje’s suc­cess. what can we learn from aje’s suc­cess story? there are lessons for both wannabe ajes, or the so - called emerging multinational companies (emncs), as well as for the multinational companies (mncs). these lessons have been detailed in our book the new emerg­ing mar­ket multi­na­tion­als: four strate­gies for dis­rupt­ing mar­kets and build­ing brands, and here we review the key points that jump out from aje’s story :
1. iden­tify a tar­get cus­tomer group that is under­served — in the case of aje, these are con­sumers at the bot­tom of the pyra­mid, who num­ber 4 bil­lion, and those who live in less acces­si­ble locations .
2. to avoid head - on com­pe­ti­tion, pen­e­trate deep in to emerg­ing mar­kets; tra­di­tional mncs tar­get the afflu­ent in the metrop­o­lises and big­ger cities .
3. focus relent­lessly on costs, strip­ping costs from all ele­ments of the value chain .
5. lever­age the lower costs to not only price lower, but also to inno­vate and local­ize your offer­ing to meet local needs .
6. expand slowly but sys­tem­at­i­cally, ini­tially expand­ing the prod­uct range to increase the share of wal­let of exist­ing customers .
7. expand in the next stage by tar­get­ing the same tar­get seg­ment as tar­geted at home, across geographies .
1. mncs have vastly larger bud­gets and thus far it seems that, that is what they are lever­ag­ing to try and com­pete through pro­mo­tional pricing and brand build­ing. per­haps they are bet­ter off in shift­ing these vast bud­gets away from pro­mo­tion pric­ing, which does not work with bottom of the pyra­mid con­sumers, to brand building .
2. the freed up dol­lars can be used to develop low cost brands, per­haps lever­ag­ing the mas­ter brand, and cre­at­ing a brand archi­tec­ture that can suc­cess­fully reach down to the bot­tom of the pyramid .
3. exploit the supe­rior mar­ket knowl­edge that has been accrued over the years of pres­ence in many emerg­ing mar­kets to develop local­ised offer­ings, again where pos­si­ble lever­ag­ing the brand architecture .
4. trans­fer knowl­edge more effec­tively across geo­gra­phies. after all, emncs like aje do not have the orga­ni­sa­tion struc­tures or processes to be able to do this as effectively .
5. learn from the emncs and cut costs relent­lessly across the value chain. mncs sim­ply do not do this well .
sur­pris­ingly, pep­sico and coca - cola do not seem to be sen­si­tive to these learn­ings! the future of growth is in the emerg­ing mar­kets and among the bot­tom of the pyra­mid con­sumers there. fail­ure to learn these lessons and deploy strate­gies based on them to com­pete effec­tively in these mar­kets and among bot­tom of the pyra­mid con­sumers is likely to be per­ilous for the future .
amitava chattopadhyay is the glaxosmithkline chaired professor in corporate innovation at insead. he is also co - author of the new emerging market multinationals: four strategies for disrupting markets and building brands. you can follow him on twitter @ amitavachats .
aje' s strategy of handling their own production and distribution likely slows their expansion oppuotunities. can you please outline the pros and cons of aje' s company strategy
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in this regard, some asian drinkers, as is the case of it technician in the indonesia sebastianus hendro kistanto, might believe big cola is an english tonic since the bottle displays a large logo of the english football association (fa) on it .
big cola’s presence in asia is so strong that, in june 2013, the fa extended its partnership with it for a further two years, to include the fa’s 150th anniversary year and remainder of the 2014 world cup qualifying campaign .
it is surprising to find that fa claims this new deal will allow them to increase its brand presence in asia, taking into account that big cola is not even asian, but peruvian .
the fa’s global head of business development, sean mcauliffe, said: “we are delighted to strengthen our brand presence outside the united kingdom and continue working with big cola .
asia is a market of increasing importance for us and working on partnerships with brands like big cola increases our presence in the region and is a great avenue for our asian fans to support the team, ” he added .
aje sells its products directly or through distributors in more than 20 countries throughout latin america, asia and africa: bolivia, brazil, colombia, costa rica, ecuador, egypt, el salvador, guatemala, honduras, india, indonesia, mexico, nicaragua, nigeria, panama, peru, réunion island, thailand, venezuela and vietnam .
besides, aje is the 10th largest soft drink company in sales volume and the 4th largest producer of carbonated soft drinks, according to a euromonitor research report in 2011 .
in 2002, aje entered into mexico, a major milestone for the company, as mexico had the highest per capita consumption of soft drinks in the world .
later, the añaños family intensified the group’s international expansion in costa rica in 2004, and guatemala, nicaragua and honduras in 2005 .
then, they established a corporate office in spain in 2006; and launched operations in colombia in 2007, panama in 2009, india, vietnam and indonesia in 2010, and brazil in 2011 .
in 2012, the group announced the launch of its flagship brand big cola in the indian market .
in the same year, armed with a new approach
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, aje also announced their association with sony pictures as the beverage partner for south - east asia, to promote hollywood blockbuster' the amazing spider - man'.
ajegroup is a multinational company dedicated to the manufacture , distribution and sale of alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages . the company was started by the añaños family in ayacucho , peru and now is headquartered in lima , peru and in madrid , spain it is known for its flagship products kola real and big cola . ajegroup is privately owned by grupo embotellador atic of madrid , spain , the holding company owned by the añaños-jerí family from ayacucho , peru . ajegroup has approximately 10,000 employees and operates in 22 countries across five continents , placing it 12th among latin american multinational companies . besides peru and mexico , ajegroup also has operations in brazil , costa rica , dominican republic , ecuador , el salvador , nigeria , guatemala , honduras , india , indonesia , thailand , venezuela , vietnam , and egypt . its portfolio includes beverages , juices , nectars , light beverages , bottled natural water , dairy and beer . it manages 17 trademarks in 48 different presentations of pet and glass bottles , and also cans . 
ajegroup is a multinational company dedicated to the manufacture, distribution and sale of alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages. the company was started by the añaños family in ayacucho, peru and now is headquartered in lima, peru and in madrid, spain it is known for its flagship products kola real and big cola. ajegroup is privately owned by grupo embotellador atic of madrid, spain, the holding company owned by the añaños-jerí family from ayacucho, peru. ajegroup has approximately 10,000 employees and operates in 22 countries across five continents, placing it 12th among latin american multinational companies. besides peru and mexico, ajegroup also has operations in brazil, costa rica, dominican republic, ecuador, el salvador, nigeria, guatemala, honduras, india, indonesia, thailand, venezuela, vietnam, and egypt. its portfolio includes beverages, juices, nectars, light beverages, bottled natural water, dairy and beer. it manages 17 trademarks in 48 different presentations of pet and glass bottles, and also cans.
ajegroup is a multinational company dedicated to the manufacture, distribution and sale of alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages. the company was started by the añaños family in ayacucho, peru and now is headquartered in lima, peru and in madrid, spain it is known for its flagship products kola real and big cola. ajegroup is privately owned by grupo embotellador atic of madrid, spain, the holding company owned by the añaños-jerí family from ayacucho, peru. ajegroup has approximately 10,000 employees and operates in 22 countries across five continents, placing it 12th among latin american multinational companies. besides peru and mexico, ajegroup also has operations in brazil, costa rica, dominican republic, ecuador, el salvador, nigeria, guatemala, honduras, india, indonesia, thailand, venezuela, vietnam, and egypt. its portfolio includes beverages, juices, nectars, light beverages, bottled natural water, dairy and beer. it manages 17 trademarks in 48 different presentations of pet and glass bottles, and also cans.