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Coca-Cola HBC is among winners of All-Ukrainian XI CSR Projects Competition

On December 22, the best corporate social responsibility projects in Ukraine were awarded. The competition is organized by the CSR Development Center, the main theme of the competition is traditionally "Sustainable Development Goals and the contribution of Ukrainian business to their achievement."

Coca-Cola HBC Project «Our Response to Covid-19» is among winners of the main nomination “Business that changes the country”.

From the first days of Covid-19 spread in Ukraine, we have joined forces with our partners to address the urgent needs of communities:

• Volunteering of our employees on the COVID-19 governmental hotline during May-June 2020: 2,500 citizens of Ukraine were supported with consultations.

• $300 000 grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation was donated to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society to support 6 key hospitals for the purchase of vital equipment to combat Covid-19: 3 medical ventilators, 13 patient monitors, 5 analyzers of electrolytes and blood gases.

• 140,000 bottles of beverages were provided to medical workers and Covid-19 patients in 15 key hospitals across Ukraine, as well as to the elderly people, orphans and other vulnerable groups.

• National campaign for blood donation support: we helped 15,000 blood donors in 35 Blood Centers in all regions of Ukraine.

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International CSR experts, winners of the SDG-Ambassadors program and UKF experts were on the jury of the XI CSR Case Competition. In total 40 cases were applied for the competition.

Award “Business that changes the country” evaluated projects by the criteria:

• social impact efficiency

• innovation

• partnership

• scalability

• sustainability

• impact on systemic change

We make a difference!

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