Muhtar Kent on sustainability
From Davos 2011 - Muhtar Kent, CEO, Coca-Cola.flv · · Cemil Ozyurt
“The moment businesses stop referring to the term sustainability and instead simply call it smart business is the moment they reach competitive advantage. When you innovate and create new solutions to reduce energy and reduce material costs, when you empower and improve the communities and people that you do business with, when you safeguard and protect the resources that go into your products, that's not just about sustainability, that's simply smart business.”
On , Muhtar Kent, Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Coca-Cola Company (The), spoke about sustainability during Davos 2011 - Muhtar Kent, CEO, Coca-Cola.flv on Cemil Ozyurt.
About Muhtar Kent
At Coca-Cola's 2019 annual shareholders meeting, outgoing Chairman Muhtar Kent responded to activist Ray Rogers' allegations of human rights abuses at Coca-Cola facilities in Latin America and elsewhere by stating that "nothing could be further from the truth of those allegations" and that "there's just no ground to any of those allegations." Kent said the company sees "eye to eye with all our bottlers related to issues of adhering to the highest standards of human rights," but noted that bottlers are "independent companies run by independent leadership teams" and that "not everything can be dictated to bottlers." He said the company would continue to work with activists to "influence" and "bring matters to a better place." In a 2018 CNBC interview, Kent described the global business environment as characterized by "volatility, volatility, volatility, and more unknowns," adding that "running a global business is just getting tougher and harder" due to socio-political dynamics. He said he was a "realistic optimist" that the US-China trade dispute would be resolved "for the benefit of both countries and the world." Kent also said that while Coca-Cola is "the quintessential American brand," the company is "so local" in China, noting that its ownership includes Chinese state-owned and Chinese enterprise partners.