This article is about the company named Abarta. For the character from Irish mythology, see Abartach.
Abarta is a company with divisions that operate in the soft-drink, newspaper, magazine, and oil and natural gas industries. Its current CEO is John F Bitzer III. Its division Abarta Beverage Group owns and operates four Coca-Cola bottling companies in the United States, while its division called the South Jersey Publishing Company runs The Pres...
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This article is about the company named Abarta. For the character from Irish mythology, see Abartach.
Abarta is a company with divisions that operate in the soft-drink, newspaper, magazine, and oil and natural gas industries. Its current CEO is John F Bitzer III. Its division Abarta Beverage Group owns and operates four Coca-Cola bottling companies in the United States, while its division called the South Jersey Publishing Company runs The Press of Atlantic City.
Abarta was founded in 1963 when John Bitzer Jr, George Roehr, and Don Taylor bought The Press of Atlantic City, and some interest in the Bethlehem and Pittsburgh Coca-Cola bottling franchises, from their father-in-law, Rolland Adams. The name itself was devised from the first letters of the surname of Bitzer, Roehr, and Taylor, and of the repeated maiden name of their spouses.
Rolland Adams' other holding in bottling, as well as the Bethlehem Globe Publishing Company, were in the name of his wife, Pauline. When she...
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