Company: AKO-B
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000473
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Company: ANDINA BOTTLING CO INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
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 to legal claims filed by consumers, product recalls, business interruptions and/or other liabilities.
We take significant precautions in order to minimize any risk of defects or contamination in our products. These precautions include quality-control programs for raw materials, the production process and our final products. We have also established procedures to correct as soon as practicable any problems that are detected. However, the precautions and procedures we implement may not be sufficient to protect us from potential incidents.
Trademark infringement could adversely impact our beverage business.
A significant portion of our sales derives from sales of beverages branded with trademarks of The Coca-Cola Company, as well as other trademarks. If other parties attempt to misappropriate trademarks we use, we may be unable to protect these trademarks. The maintenance of the reputation of these brands is essential for the future success of our beverage business. Misappropriation of trademarks we use, or challenges thereto, could have a material adverse effect on our financial performance.
We may not be able to successfully implement our expansion strategies or achieve the expected operational efficiencies or synergies from potential acquisitions.
We have, and we may continue to, acquire businesses and pursue other strategic transactions as part of our expansion strategies. We cannot assure you that we will be successful in identifying opportunities and consummating acquisitions and other strategic transactions on favorable terms or at all. These types of transactions may involve additional risks to our Company, including operating in geographic regions or with beverage categories in which we have less or no operating history. Depending on the size and timing of an acquisition or transaction, we may be required to raise future financing to consummate the acquisition or transaction. Moreover, even if we are able to consummate a transaction, acquisitions and other strategic opportunities may involve significant risks and uncertainties.
Key elements to achieving the benefits and expected synergies of our acquisitions are the integration of acquired businesses’ operations into our own in a timely and effective manner and the retention of qualified and experienced key personnel. We may incur in unforeseen liabilities in connection with acquiring, taking control of, or managing beverage operations and other businesses and may encounter difficulties and unforeseen or additional costs in restructuring and integrating them into our operating structure. These difficulties include distraction of management from current operations, difficulties in integration with our existing business and technology, greater than expected liabilities and expenses, inadequate return on capital, and unidentified issues not discovered in our pre-acquisition investigations and evaluations of those strategies and acquisitions. We cannot assure you that these efforts will be successful or completed as expected by us, and our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be adversely