Sol Daurella Comadrán
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Born | 1966 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain | |||||||||||||
Nationality | Spanish | |||||||||||||
Alma mater | ESADE | |||||||||||||
Parents | José Daurella Franco | |||||||||||||
Attended the 2024 Bilderberg meeting as chair of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners. Together with Ana Botín, the most influential businesswoman in Spain, and belongs to the richest family in Catalonia.
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Soledad Daurella Comadrán is a Spanish businesswoman and chairwoman of the world's largest Coke bottling company, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners[1][2],and also has interests in other Big Food companies. Daurella is, together with Ana Botín, the most influential businesswoman in Spain, and belongs to the richest family in Catalonia.[3] She attended the 2024 Bilderberg meeting.
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Early life and education
Sol Daurella was born in Barcelona, into a family with a long business tradition. She is the granddaughter of the Spanish importer of salted cod Santiago Daurella Rull and daughter of the businessman José Daurella Franco.[3]
The Daurella family has been part of the Coca-Cola global system since 1951, when they obtained the licence to bottle and distribute the Coca-Cola beverage in Spain, creating the first Spanish bottler.[4]
Sol Daurella studied in Switzerland and obtained her degree in business administration and her MBA from ESADE.[5] She speaks four languages.
Career
Daurella She began her professional career at Mac Group, a strategic consultancy firm, before joining the Coca-Cola System in 1992.
Coca-Cola European Partners was created in May 2016, after the merger of Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, Coca-Cola Enterprises, and the German bottler. Before her appointment as Chairman of Coca-Cola European Partners, she had been CEO at Coca-Cola Iberian Partners. Daurella was chair of UK-based Coca-Cola European Partners,[6] a consumer goods company that produces and distributes an extensive range of nonalcoholic ready-to-drink beverages in thirteen European countries including Spain, Portugal, Andorra, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland.[7]
Daurella is also a director of other Coca-Cola bottlers such as Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company, partially owned by TCCC, which operates in 12 countries in Western and Northern Africa.
She is also co-chair of Grupo Cacaolat, a dairy company which produces cocoa milkshakes and is based in Barcelona, Spain, as well as CEO and chair of Cobega.
Other activities
Daurella has contributed her experience as a board member to a number of companies in the banking, construction, and energy sectors, as well as to other consumer goods companies.
In 2015, she became a board member of Banco Santander, ranked Eurozone's largest bank by market value.[5]
Event Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Bilderberg/2024 | 30 May 2024 | 2 June 2024 | Madrid Spain | The 70th Bilderberg Meeting |
References
- ↑ https://www.forbes.com/profile/sol-daurella/https://www.forbes.com/profile/sol-daurella/
- ↑ https://e-noticies.cat/es/gente/sol-daurella-vida-secreta-lejos-negocios-sus-dos-matrimonios-hijos
- ↑ a b https://www.elmundo.es/especiales/los-mas-ricos/sol-daurella-comadran.html
- ↑ Raquel, Lander. Josep Oliu, el banquero estratega : del Vallés a la élite : la historia de éxito del Banco Sabadell. ISBN 9788490602058.
- ↑ a b https://www.santander.com/en/shareholders-and-investors/corporate-governance/board-of-directors/ms-sol-daurella-comadran
- ↑ https://www.forbes.com/profile/sol-daurella/}
- ↑ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160527005902/en/Coca-Cola-European-Partners-plc-Combination-Completed-Creates