Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. (COKE)
Coca-Cola bottler. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 18, 2026. Ranked 31 of the 42 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
15%
End of 2028
24%
Employees, annual report
17,000
Leading staffing pattern
Beverage Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now15%
- End of 202722%
- End of 202824%
- End of 203024%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 76%
- Becomes checking a model's work 17%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
17,000 teammates, 15,000 full-time and 2,000 part-time, at a bottler's plants, distribution centers and sales routes, read as one beverage manufacturing pattern.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 15% now, 22% at the end of 2027, 24% at the end of 2028, 24% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 24% desk work, 19% people work and 56% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 76% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 17% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
17,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; the bottling territory is in the United States.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 17,000 employees which we refer to as "teammates," of which approximately 15,000 were full-time and approximately 2,000 were part-time.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Beverage Manufacturing | 100% | The filing describes one business, bottling and distributing beverages in its territory, and counts employees by status, not by function (c); BLS counts a bottler's plants, distribution centers and sales routes in beverage manufacturing, so one pattern. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 17,000 teammates, 15,000 full-time and 2,000 part-time; approximately 15% covered by collective bargaining agreements; periods of high front-line turnover and labor shortages met with a base wage investment in the third quarter of 2025; six experiential learning centers.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Beverage Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- The Coca-Cola Company (KO, 65,900 employees)15% now, 24% by 2028
- Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (KDP, 30,600 employees)15% now, 24% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in no sentence.
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 17,000 | 2026-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 17,000 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 17,000 | 2024-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 17,000 | 2023-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 16,000 | 2022-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 15,800 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-29 | 14,800 | 2020-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-30 | 14,200 | 2019-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 14,500 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-01-01 | 11,300 | 2017-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2016-01-03 | 7,600 | 2016-03-18 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-28 | 5,600 | 2015-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-29 | 5,000 | 2014-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-30 | 5,000 | 2013-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2012-01-01 | 5,100 | 2012-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2011-01-02 | 5,200 | 2011-03-18 | 10-K |
| 2010-01-03 | 5,200 | 2010-03-18 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-28 | 5,300 | 2009-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-30 | 5,800 | 2008-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 5,700 | 2007-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2006-01-01 | 6,000 | 2006-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2005-01-02 | 5,600 | 2005-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-28 | 5,500 | 2004-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-29 | 5,600 | 2003-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-30 | 5,500 | 2002-03-26 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 5,500 | 2001-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2000-01-02 | 6,050 | 2000-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1999-01-03 | 6,000 | 1999-04-01 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-28 | 4,900 | 1998-03-27 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-29 | 5,000 | 1997-03-25 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 4,800 | 1996-03-27 | 10-K |
| 1995-01-01 | 4,700 | 1995-04-03 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-01-02 | 5,000 | 1994-04-01 | 10-K |
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-009057, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 15% now and 24% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. employ?
- 17,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Beverage Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 24% desk work, 19% people work and 56% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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