Athina Kanioura
CEO, Latin America; Global Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer
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In a public LinkedIn post tied to Q1 results, Chief Digital Officer Sedef Salingan Sahin said Coca-Cola is building a digital growth engine that embeds data, technology and AI into brand building, innovation, customer service and operations.
Open exact post ↗Chief BEES Officer Nick Caton said BEES enables more than 25 billion AI-powered touchpoints on an annualised basis, using platform intelligence to make retailer interactions more relevant and effective.
Open exact post ↗In a public LinkedIn post after London Tech Week, Chief Digital & Technology Officer Sam Kini described a structured AI approach spanning growth, the future of commerce, an intelligent enterprise and everyday employee use.
Open exact post ↗Chief Digital & Technology Officer Sam Kini says scaling AI at Unilever requires strong data foundations, responsible governance, skills and a culture that enables confident use, spanning scientific innovation, digital twins, consumer understanding and the future of commerce.
Open exact post ↗Update cadence: Publicly indexed LinkedIn posts and interviews are checked weekly and new material items are sent through verification before publication. A direct LinkedIn API connector is still pending; no personal profile login is used.
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Nestlé says the assistant automates up to 40% of routine tasks and saves salespeople 20–35% of the time spent on those tasks in pilot markets.
HEINEKEN reports that its AI Data Driven Advisor is integrated with CRM and eB2B platforms and recommends next-best actions for 203,000 customers.
PepsiCo announced a multi-year collaboration to apply digital twins and AI to plant and warehouse operations, with early pilots already under way in the United States.
Nestlé launched an in-house service using NVIDIA Omniverse and OpenUSD to create reusable 3D product replicas for eCommerce and digital media content.
P&G states that AI-driven insights have reduced out-of-stock rates by 15%, helping improve product availability.
HEINEKEN reports that eazle reached close to €13 billion in GMV, connected more than 670,000 active customers and captured 70% of beer volume in scope.
AB InBev reports that BEES was live in 30 markets at 30 June 2026, with 72% of company revenue captured through B2B digital platforms. BEES generated $15.0 billion GMV in Q2 2026, up 16% year on year.
Hindustan Unilever reports that its in-house eB2B application Shikhar had onboarded more than 1.3 million stores and was being used to improve self-adoption and order frequency.
P&G says its India operation uses an AI and machine-learning ordering system to improve distributor shipment and replenishment predictions, alongside supply-chain automation that cut touchpoints by 60%.
Walmart announced the international expansion of its first-party data analytics suite, Walmart Luminate, beginning with Canada and Mexico.
Coca-Cola announced a five-year strategic partnership and a $1.1 billion commitment to Microsoft Cloud and generative-AI capabilities, including Azure OpenAI experimentation across business functions.
Walmart Commerce Technologies made its internally used AI-powered Route Optimization technology available to other businesses as a SaaS product.
Coca-Cola's investor strategy page defines Revenue Growth Management as one of four nodes in its topline growth flywheel, alongside marketing, innovation and integrated execution.
Coca-Cola FEMSA says it began implementing Juntos+ Advisor in Brazil, using AI models to improve sales-force capabilities and customer experience. Its broader Juntos+ platform reached 1.3 million monthly active users across Latin America.
Swire Coca-Cola reports that its Hong Kong team's Project WISE won first prize in a group technology competition for using AI-generated insights to unlock sales opportunities and strengthen frontline sales capabilities.
CCI reports that Pakistan volume grew 17.0% in Q2 2026 and was the key growth driver, supported by stronger market positioning, commercial execution and product launches. At group level, disciplined RGM and affordability-focused pricing supported performance.
Coca-Cola HBC Serbia says predictive AI models embedded in big-data analytics enable sales teams to propose more accurate, proactive actions for specific commercial opportunities; more than 50% of orders are automatically generated using robotic process automation.
PepsiCo's 2026 CAGNY presentation identifies Next-Gen Go-to-Market and AI-powered marketing among the use cases in its technology-enabled transformation agenda, alongside a multiyear productivity program spanning digitalization and automation.
At its FY25 Capital Markets Event, CCEP identified scaling key capabilities and accelerating productivity through technology as enablers of its growth strategy, while reaffirming mid-term objectives of approximately 4% comparable FX-neutral revenue growth and approximately 7% comparable operating-profit growth.
In its 2025 CAGNY transcript, Coca-Cola said its system serves about 33 million physical customer outlets and cited ShopX in traditional trade, visible inventory in modern trade and away-from-home execution as examples of creating retailer value.
Ramon Laguarta said PepsiCo's technology, AI and data investments create opportunities to integrate how North America serves rural areas, small stores and away-from-home restaurants—lowering cost-to-serve while increasing visit frequency and time to sell.
Unilever's 2025 Annual Report says it supports small-scale retailers, primarily in India and Indonesia, through AI-powered digital ordering platforms alongside financial services and training.
Unilever identifies generative AI as an opportunity to improve effectiveness across consumer insights, demand creation, customer and channel management, and operations, supported by a broader modernization of digital foundations.
Unilever reports that its Personal Care AI Studio uses integrated digital and automation tools to speed content production and was live in four markets, with further rollout planned for 2026.
At CAGNY 2026, Coca-Cola presented Fuel Light 360 as a digital scenario-modelling capability designed to give teams a common fact base and support faster investment choices.
Mars says its Google Cloud partnership will give associates AI assistants and a unified enterprise-search capability intended to make company knowledge easier to access and streamline work that previously required lengthy manual research.
Mondelēz's Sales Transformation Director in Mexico says the company is using technology and AI to simplify complex data and convert it into granular, actionable insights for faster decisions across the organisation.
L'Oréal announced a collaboration with OpenAI focused on two priority areas: AI-powered consumer journeys toward agentic commerce, and AI-powered professional functions spanning research, science and marketing.
Danone says it is bringing products to market through AI- and data-driven field sales teams, supported by integrated Sales Planning & Execution platforms and a corporate data foundation.
Reckitt says its India go-to-market centre of excellence uses data and AI to enable precise distribution across 11 million stores and has lifted sales-representative productivity to 92%.
In a public LinkedIn post tied to Q1 results, Chief Digital Officer Sedef Salingan Sahin said Coca-Cola is building a digital growth engine that embeds data, technology and AI into brand building, innovation, customer service and operations.
Chief BEES Officer Nick Caton said BEES enables more than 25 billion AI-powered touchpoints on an annualised basis, using platform intelligence to make retailer interactions more relevant and effective.
In a public LinkedIn post after London Tech Week, Chief Digital & Technology Officer Sam Kini described a structured AI approach spanning growth, the future of commerce, an intelligent enterprise and everyday employee use.
Reckitt's Digital & Science investor event features Chief Information & Digital Officer Nigel Richardson and AI-enterprise leader Bastien Parizot explaining how digital, data and AI are embedded in the company's transformation agenda.
At the 2026 dbAccess Global Consumer Conference, Danone CEO Antoine de Saint-Affrique and Deputy CEO Juergen Esser discussed AI applications across marketing, content, consumer relationships and productivity.
Michael Lampert, Senior Director, Global Generative AI, said Mondelēz is moving its AIDA content-generation platform from a seven-market pilot toward wider global adoption. The platform combines brand knowledge bases, about 16 automated compliance checks and final human approval, with deployment primarily through trained agency partners.
Swire Coca-Cola says its Suggested Order tool analyses historical sales, outlet characteristics, seasonality and promotions to recommend the product mix and quantities for each outlet.
Chief Digital & Technology Officer Sam Kini says scaling AI at Unilever requires strong data foundations, responsible governance, skills and a culture that enables confident use, spanning scientific innovation, digital twins, consumer understanding and the future of commerce.
Consumer Goods Technology reports James Quincey's Morgan Stanley conference comments that Coca-Cola's system handles 30 million store visits per week and can use AI to send suggested orders based on successful retailer patterns; he said the AI-enabled sales system produces higher revenue.
Pitcher's named-client case study says Coca-Cola FEMSA used its platform to standardise and localise modern-trade field execution across Brazil and Mexico, equipping sales representatives with data, insights, content and guided selling.
A McKinsey client case says Reckitt's Smart Execution combines real-time data, gen AI and a new operating rhythm to recommend the right store, SKU, issue and action. It reports US display compliance rising from roughly 50–55% to about 70% or better, out-of-stock issue identification declining from 2.5% to 1.5%, and sales uplift of roughly 2% in large modern-trade markets and 5–6% in traditional-trade-led markets such as Brazil.
BCG reports that AI companions and digital sales agents can expand coverage, conversion and product lines sold in emerging-market distributed channels. Examples cited include 11% sales growth within a month for one home-care brand and, for a multinational CPG, 25% more customer-facing time and 8% more product lines per sales call.