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Coca-Cola in Nigeria
The Nigerian Bottling Company Plc (NBC), which is part of Coca-Cola HBC, was incorporated in November 1951 to bottle and sell carbonated non-alcoholic beverages. The company has the sole franchise to bottle Coca-Cola products in Nigeria. Production of Coca-Cola began in 1953 at a bottling facility in Lagos, and new plants at Kano, Port Harcourt and Ibadan were opened shortly afterwards.
NBC became a public company in 1972 with its shares listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. NBC generates its own power and is self-sufficient in carbon dioxide and water production. It has 16 bottling facilities around the country, and it uses 82 distribution warehouses and 200,000 distribution outlets. The company's head office is on the Lagos mainland at Ebute-Metta.