Coca-Cola Hellenic, one of the world's largest bottlers of products of The Coca-Cola Company, has been included for the fourth consecutive year in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI).

Coca-Cola Hellenic is one of only three beverage companies worldwide to merit a place on the DJSI World index, and one of just two to make it into the DJSI Europe index.

In the assessment process, Coca-Cola Hellenic received top scores for the beverage industry in nine assessment categories including perfect marks in two -- Environmental Policy/Management Systems and Packaging.

Dimitris Lois, Chief Executive Officer at Coca-Cola Hellenic, said: "We are thrilled that our efforts have been recognized for the fourth consecutive year as representing best practice in sustainability in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

Gaining inclusion in the Indexes is an achievement on its own. Maintaining our position for four years requires continual improvement, which is the focus of our long-running Towards Sustainability program. We know we will need to demonstrate further progress to be included next year and we are determined to do exactly that," Dimitris Lois, Chief Executive Officer at Coca-Cola Hellenic, said.

Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are the leading global sustainability benchmarks worldwide covering 2,500 world's best companies in terms of sustainability performance based on economic, environmental and social criteria.

After the evaluation of a series of general issues and issues relevant to the industry, climate change mitigation, supply chain standards and labor practices, only the top 10% are included in the list. Selection criteria evolve each year and companies must continue to make improvements to their long term SAM plans in order to remain on the Index. Indexes are updated yearly and companies are monitored throughout the year.

Coca-Cola Hellenic's overall score improved year-on-year from 72% to 77%. In the beverage sector, the company received industry-leading scores in Environmental Policy/Management Systems (100%), Packaging (100%), Customer Relationship Management (99%), Environmental Reporting (97%), Social Reporting (93%), Labor practice (88%), Health & Nutrition (84%), Corporate Citizenship (76%), and Talent Attraction/Retention (66%)

A more detailed description of Coca-Cola Hellenic company’s sustainability program is available in the 2010 CSR Report, at http://csrreport.2010.coca-colahellenic.com/.