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Sol Daurella
Sol Daurella Comadrán is a Spanish businesswoman. She is chairwoman of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners. Early life and educationSol 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 entrepreneur José Daurella Franco.[citation needed] 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.[1] Sol Daurella studied in Switzerland and obtained her degree in business administration and her MBA from ESADE. She speaks four languages.[citation needed] CareerDaurella She began her professional career at Mac Group, a strategic consultancy firm, before joining the Coca-Cola System in 1992.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] Daurella is chair of UK-based Coca-Cola European Partners,[2] 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.[3] 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.[citation needed] She is also co-chair of Grupo Cacaolat, a dairy company which produces cocoa milkshakes and is based in Barcelona, Spain,[citation needed] as well as CEO and chair of Cobega.[citation needed] Other activitiesDaurella 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.[citation needed] In November 2014, she became been a board member of Banco Santander, ranked Eurozone's largest bank by market value.[citation needed] She became honorary consul for Iceland[citation needed] and has been involved with nonprofit organisations dedicated to cancer research, health and well-being, and education.[citation needed] RecognitionIn September 2023, Daurella was awarded the Premio Empresaria del Año (Businesswoman of the Year) in the inaugural Premios Vanguardia,[4] presented at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia in Barcelona in 2023 by the King Felipe of Spain.[5] References
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