Glossary

Glosarry

8 oz bottle Classic 237 ml bottle.
20F Annual Report required by the SEC in the United States for all foreign private issuers listed on the NYSE.
ADR American Depositary Receipt 1 ADR equals 6 common stock shares of Andina.
Auxiliary Equipment Air, cooling, carbon dioxide, steam, water, electric energy, effluent treatment (waste management), and other utilities’ equipment.
B-Brands Supermarket-owned brands (Private Labels) and low priced alternative brands.
Blow Molding Process by which the preform is placed in a mold and blown into its final bottle form.
Channel Traditional Clients: Mom & Pops, small stores, medium stores. On Premise: hotels, restaurants, bars, gas stations, drug stores, kiosks.
CNPJ Cadastro Nacional da Pessoa Jurídica (Brazil). Tax Identification Number.
CSD Carbonated Soft Drinks
CUIT Clave Única de Identificación Tributaria (Argentina). Tax Identification Number.
DNI Documento Nacional de Identificación (Argentina) National Identification Document.
EBITDA Operating Income plus Depreciation.
Formats Multi-Serving: equal or larger than 1.0 liter. Single-Serving: smaller than 1.0 liter including cans. Post Mix: Sales mode by which soft drink syrup is mixed with water and carbon dioxide at the point of sale, using specialized vending machines.
Handhelds Portable, wireless computer used by our sales force to input orders at the point of sale which are simultaneously and automatically registered on Andina’s main IT systems.
IFRS International Financial Reporting Standards
Injection Process by which PET resin is converted into preforms for bottles.
ISO International Standards Organization
ISO 9,000 Addresses quality management: customer’s quality requirements and applicable regulatory requirements achieving continual improvement of its performance in pursuit of these objectives.
ISO 14,000 Addresses environmental management: minimize harmful effects on the environment caused by its activities achieving continual improvement of its environmental performance in pursuit of this objective.
ISO 22,000 Food safety management system that sets international requirements for demonstrating the ability to control food safety hazards, including suppliers, in order to ensure that food is safe at the time of human consumption.
Market Assets Equipment installed at clients’ locations such as coolers, post-mix equipment and auto-vending machines.
MUC Million unit cases.
Non Carbonated Products that do not fall within the CSD category.
Net Cash Position Cash (short and long term) plus short and long term Time Deposits and Marketable Securities minus short and long term Debt and Bonds Payable.
NYSE New York Stock Exchange.
OHSAS Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems.
OHSAS 18,000 Standards for health and safety management systems. Integrating occupational health and safety requirements with quality requirements.
PET Polyethylene terephthalate; type of resin used in the production of returnable and non-returnable bottles.
Preforms Semi-manufactured product obtained from PET injection used as main raw material for the manufacturing of bottles, through blow molding.
RUT Rol Único Tributario (Chile) Tax Identification Number.
SAP Systems Applications and Products; tool that provides customers the ability to interact with a common corporate database for a comprehensive range of applications, that provide the capability to manage financial, asset, cost accounting, production operations, personnel, plants, and archived documents.>
SEC Securities Exchange Commission.
Sarbanes Oxley/SOX Act enacted in the year 2002 that regulates public company accounting offering protection to investors.
SVS Superintendencia de Valores y Seguros. Chilean entity similar to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Trans elevators Vertically extended automated warehouse, specially designed for frequent traffic of products.
UF Unidad de Fomento. Daily indexed Chilean peso-denominated monetary unit to the Chilean inflation rate of the previous month.
Unit Case Volume measurement used in The Coca-Cola System equal to 24 -8 oz bottles or 5.68 liters.