Coca-Cola Amatil: confident of meeting guidance

Published: 03 Nov 2009 18:05:12 PST

MELBOURNE, Nov 4 - Coca-Cola Amatil Ltd , Australia's top soft drinks bottler, was confident it could meet its previous earnings forecast for high single digit growth in earnings before interest and tax and net profit after tax for the second half, it said on Wednesday. Coca-Cola Amatil, 30 percent owned by Coca-Cola Co , also said in a trading update that a strong first-half trading performance had continued in the third quarter, with good revenue and volume growth achieved across all business units.