Coca-Cola Co. said Tuesday it will build a new bottling plant in Malaysia and invest 1 billion ringgit ($302 million) over the next five years to boost growth in the Southeast Asian market. Coca-Cola said in a statement its new facility in the southern state of Negeri Sembilan is expected to be operational before the end of 2011, according to a report of the Associated Press. The new investment will directly create 600 to 800 new jobs at the bottling plant, and is expected to create between 6,000 and 8,000 jobs with local suppliers, said Coca-Cola's President of the Pacific Group, Glenn Jordan.
