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Business Insider
09-07-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Kepler Capital Sticks to Their Hold Rating for Coca Cola HBC (CCH)
Kepler Capital analyst Richard Withagen maintained a Hold rating on Coca Cola HBC on July 7 and set a price target of p3,830.00. The company's shares closed yesterday at p3,912.00. Don't Miss TipRanks' Half-Year Sale Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. Make smarter investment decisions with TipRanks' Smart Investor Picks, delivered to your inbox every week. Withagen covers the Consumer Defensive sector, focusing on stocks such as Remy Cointreau, Davide Campari-Milano SpA, and Diageo. According to TipRanks, Withagen has an average return of -1.0% and a 44.37% success rate on recommended stocks. Currently, the analyst consensus on Coca Cola HBC is a Moderate Buy with an average price target of p4,136.67, which is a 5.74% upside from current levels. In a report released on July 4, Citi also maintained a Hold rating on the stock with a £40.00 price target. CCH market cap is currently £14.56B and has a P/E ratio of 21.01. Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 344 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of CCH in relation to earlier this year.
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Coca-Cola HBC price target raised to 4,000 GBp from 3,800 GBp at Citi
Citi raised the firm's price target on Coca-Cola HBC (CCHGY) to 4,000 GBp from 3,800 GBp and keeps a Neutral rating on the shares. The firm expects management to raise FY25 organic EBIT growth guidance to 9%-13% with the first half results and sees 'no obvious negatives,' but sees greater upside in Carlsberg (CABGY) for now, the analyst tells investors in a preview. Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. Make smarter investment decisions with TipRanks' Smart Investor Picks, delivered to your inbox every week. Published first on TheFly – the ultimate source for real-time, market-moving breaking financial news. Try Now>> See Insiders' Hot Stocks on TipRanks >> Read More on CABGY: Disclaimer & DisclosureReport an Issue Carlsberg price target raised to DKK 955 from DKK 945 at Morgan Stanley Carlsberg downgraded to Hold from Buy at HSBC
The Independent
18-06-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Food and beverage companies shift to future-ready operations
How F&B companies can navigate rising input costs, shifting consumer demands, tightening regulations and increasing supply chain complexity. Global food commodity prices are still about a third higher than pre-Covid levels, according to the UN FAO Food Price Index. With significantly higher prices impacting margins, F&B companies need strategies to optimise costs by improving operational efficiency. Yet just 16 per cent of food and beverage processors expect to redesign or consolidate their plants in 2025. In this environment, operational efficiency is no longer about fine-tuning legacy systems; it requires reimagining performance through a more integrated lens. By evolving traditional lean, agile and six sigma (LASSi) methodologies into a future-ready strategy – one augmented by data, technology and adaptability – F&B companies can build more resilient, responsive, and sustainable operations. This approach gives F&B companies a powerful framework to drive efficiency, adaptability and quality. Lean boosts process efficiency, agile enables faster response to market shifts and six sigma reduces variability through data. – shifting operations from reactive to proactive. Lean foundations, digital liftoff Operational makeovers that endure always start lean. Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company cut the number of plants it runs by 30 per cent (from 80 to 56) between 2008 and 2021, yet boosted production lines per site by 44 per cent and trimmed distribution centres and warehouses by two-thirds, all while preserving overall capacity. Meanwhile, Nestlé's Continuous Excellence programme couples lean methodologies with total productive maintenance (TPM). Since Nestlé launched the programme in 2008, it has delivered 5 to 6 per cent organic growth every year and realises roughly $1.7 billion in annual savings. This demonstrates how LASSi boosts efficiency, capacity and growth – setting the stage for tech-driven gains. Building on that lean base, efficiency now means redesigning work by integrating digital technologies with physical processes and materials. Unilever shows the leap: by pairing AI and robotics with 3D printing, it fine-tunes portion-controlled ice-cream packs – dosing each unit at the exact weight, volume and temperature consumers expect while keeping lines agile for shifting demand. Looking to gain better return on investment (ROI) on promotions and compete with private labels, Kraft Heinz has taken an approach that marries tech investments with agile methodologies to develop its in-house capabilities in tandem with vendor partnerships. By integrating agile methodologies with tech, Kraft Heinz has shrunk its innovation timeline from three years to six months and improved promo ROI by 10 per cent using AI to better identify the right product mix for a region or retail location. These examples show the importance of combining structural shifts – plant consolidation, supply chain reconfiguration – with tech adoption, such as AI, robotics or 3D printing. Applying this dual layer is what moves the dial. Address implementation challenges These early wins set the stage for the toughest hurdle: implementation. Embedding a culture of accountability and continuous improvement helps break down resistance to change, while upskilling employees through continuous training in evolving LASSi principles eases labour market pressures and keeps frontline talent aligned. Companies such as Starbucks, JBS6 and Mondelez are investing in education programmes that build future-ready skills – helping close the digital readiness gap while boosting employee retention. At Starbucks, for example, 75 per cent of participants show career growth after graduation. Keeping training in sync with emerging methods and tech ensures skills keep pace. Long-term education partnerships close the readiness gap, and tomorrow's winners will be those who cultivate talent as boldly as they deploy smart tools New ideas and technologies driving operational efficiencies While LASSi methodologies remain a strong foundation for efficiency in the F&B sector, emerging technologies are reshaping what's possible. Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing – powered by IoT, AI and machine learning – are enabling smart factories with real-time decision-making, predictive maintenance and greater automation. Digital twins offer a way to simulate and optimise processes before implementation. Meanwhile, digital tools are driving sustainable manufacturing through circular economy models, renewable energy use and eco-friendly materials. Greater use of big data and analytics is enhancing supply chain visibility, demand forecasting and efficiency, while blockchain integration is boosting transparency and trust across operations. As companies evolve their performance strategies, many are also blending core methodologies with complementary ones – such as total productive maintenance (TPM), theory of constraints (ToC) and sociotechnical systems (STS) – to address equipment reliability, process bottlenecks and the human-tech interface. Strategic frameworks such as Hoshin Kanri and innovation tools such as design thinking further enrich this mix. The result is a multi-lens approach that strengthens not just efficiency, but resilience and adaptability too. F&B pressures vary plant by plant, yet the winning playbook is the same: fuse foundational operational-excellence disciplines with smart tech and human-centric design. The blend yields quick wins – higher overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), lower waste, faster changeovers – while fortifying operations against regulation and demand swings. Emerging technologies don't replace proven operational-excellence disciplines – they amplify them. Companies that keep iterating this trio – methodologies, machines and mindsets – will convert efficiency into durable competitive advantage.
Business Insider
14-05-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Goldman Sachs Sticks to Their Buy Rating for Coca Cola HBC (CCH)
In a report released yesterday, Aron Adamski from Goldman Sachs reiterated a Buy rating on Coca Cola HBC (CCH – Research Report), with a price target of p4,200.00. The company's shares closed yesterday at p3,772.00. Protect Your Portfolio Against Market Uncertainty Discover companies with rock-solid fundamentals in TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter. Receive undervalued stocks, resilient to market uncertainty, delivered straight to your inbox. In addition to Goldman Sachs, Coca Cola HBC also received a Buy from Barclays's Laurence Whyatt in a report issued on May 1. However, on May 7, Kepler Capital maintained a Hold rating on Coca Cola HBC (LSE: CCH). CCH market cap is currently £13.64B and has a P/E ratio of 19.68. Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 346 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of CCH in relation to earlier this year.
