Coca-Cola Consolidated deepens its investment in Nashville

Coca-Cola Consolidated continues to provide refreshing beverages to its customer network and expand its community partnerships to serve the Nashville area.

• The company employs 714 teammates who serve the Nashville area and supplies nearly 8,800 business customers across the city.

Why it's important: Nashville's growth creates opportunity while putting greater demand on the institutions, infrastructure and community organizations that support daily life.

Davidson County added nearly 9,300 residents in 2025, the largest increase of any Tennessee county — and that growth comes as Nashville continues to attract businesses, workers and major development projects.

The background: Coca-Cola Consolidated is Tennessee's local Coca-Cola bottler.

The company makes, sells and distributes beverages across its territory, serving restaurants, stores, workplaces, universities, entertainment destinations and thousands of other customers that collectively form part of Nashville's commercial infrastructure.

The impact: That local scale provides Coca-Cola Consolidated with resources and relationships to direct towards local needs.

• The company turned some of its largest Nashville partnerships into platforms for food relief, youth programming and recycling education..

For example: This summer, Coca-Cola Consolidated completed its pledge to pack 250,000 meals by July 4 as part of its America250 sponsorship.

• Coca-Cola Consolidated worked with Nashville SC, Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, community volunteers and its own teammates to pack the final 50,000 meals in Nashville.
• Those meals, accompanied by Dasani water, went to pantries across Second Harvest's 46-county Middle Tennessee service area to support families, older adults, children and others experiencing hunger.

The company plans to build on that work in September through a coordinated 9/11 meal-packing effort taking place across its territory, including Nashville.

Here's what else: Coca-Cola Consolidated also works with sports venues across the Nashville area to both deliver beverages and offer community support.

Coca-Cola has served as the beverage provider for the Titans/Oilers organization since its inception in 1960, and Coca-Cola Consolidated remains an official beverage partner of the Titans and Nissan Stadium.

• The company has paired that relationship with recycling initiatives at more than 20 events, including Green Games, which educate fans and postgame sorting efforts designed to capture bottles, cans and cardboard for recycling.

The company also partners with Nashville SC as the signature sponsor of its IMPACT Soccer program for families, in which teammates and their children participate in one of the clinics.

• Coke Consolidated also supported Green Games at GEODIS Park, using an art installation made from plastic bottles to teach fans about packaging recyclability.

The benefits: Nashville's stadiums and entertainment venues bring thousands of people into the same place, giving Coca-Cola Consolidated's sustainability efforts a larger audience and helping partners make participation easier for fans.

The takeaway: Nashville will keep changing as more people, businesses and investment arrive.

Companies with an established local workforce and deep community relationships can help shape how that growth benefits the people already here.

• Coca-Cola Consolidated is using its scale in Nashville to serve thousands of businesses while directing people and partnerships toward food access, youth programs, recycling and community organizations.

See how Coca-Cola Consolidated is serving communities across the city.