Embotelladoras Arca is a Mexican beverage company founded in May 2001 through the merger of three of the oldest bottlers in Mexico: Procor, Arma and Argos. Through its subsidiaries the company produces, distributes and sells beverages under The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia...

 brand and other proprietary brands as well as brands owned by Arca. It is the second largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

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The company, headquartered in Monterrey, distributes its products in the northern region of Mexico, in the states of Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, Sinaloa, Baja California, Baja California Sur and Tamaulipas, as well as northern Argentina. Arca also produces and distributes Bokados brand snack foods.

Embotelladoras Arca merged with Grupo Continental

Grupo Continental

Grupo Continental is a beverage company geared to the production, sales and distribution of products owned by The Coca-Cola Company, has a presence in central and western Mexico. The company has its headquarters in Tampico, Tamaulipas....

in January 2011 in a 27.7 billion peso ($2.3 billion) exchange of stock and the resulting conglomerate is called Arca Continental, trading on the Mexican stock exchange.