Coca - Cola HBC

The Athens stock market rebounded strongly Monday, on the back of bank shares' performance and positions on other blue chips.

The general index ended up 1.74%, at 1,285.27 points, on turnover of €108.5 million.

A decline in production costs, including for energy, and rises in the prices of its products, helped bottler Coca-Cola HBC boost its net sales revenue and profitability in the first half of 2023.

New players are entering the juice and soft drinks market by acquiring existing companies, although, for the moment, none is challenging the dominance of Coca-Cola HBC.

In the last couple of hours of Monday's session the Greek stock market succumbed to pressure from a combination of factors that sent prices lower: The underperforming Chinese economy, the decline of other eurozone bourses and the significant losses of Coca-Cola HBC, the market's biggest stock, conspired to inflict significant losses on the Athinon Avenue benchmark that came off Friday's nine-ye

The Greek stock market experienced a mixed session on Thursday, with the majority of stocks closing with gains while most indexes posted losses at the end of the day. Traders opted for select sales to cash in their recent gains, so the benchmark came off Wednesday's 111-month high to settle for a minor decline.

The benchmark of the Greek stock market appeared once again on Thursday reluctant to measure itself against the 1,300-point level it had last reached in June 2014, and gave ground on a day of reduced trading volume.

Stocks enjoyed even greater gains on Thursday, following the increase of prices on Wednesday, with banks leading the Greek bourse to significant growth once their index moved back above the 1,000-point mark. The benchmark recorded another solid advance in the face of uncertainty across the rest of the eurozone, on a rare occasion of Athinon Avenue moving autonomously.

The benchmark at Athinon Avenue gave up on Thursday all the gains it had collected on Wednesday, as banks led the profit-taking activity by investors, although a number of blue chips, such as Mytilineos, maintained their upward course for another day.

Athens-listed Coca-Cola HBC is looking forward to even greater growth rates after 2023, with investments in new products that will serve the 24/7 strategy (products for all hours of the day and all days of the week), through capitalizing on the data it attaches great importance to, and by optimizing its performance at each point of sale.

The main index at the Greek bourse cleared the 1,100-point bar with relative ease on Friday, ending a week of gains and moderate trading volume. This last session of the week showed price growth across the board in what was the fourth consecutive day of gains for the benchmark.