The Board of Directors of The Coca-ColaCompany today elected Helen Smith Price and Christine Quinn as Vice Presidents of the company, effective immediately.

Price was named Vice President of Global Community Affairs for TheCoca-Cola Company and President of The Coca-Cola Foundation, effective April 16. 

In this role, she is responsible for driving the Foundation’s global operations including grant making, financial requirements, and regulatory compliance for domestic and international philanthropy.

Price joined the company in 1993 as Corporate External Affairs Director and from 2001-2016 served as Assistant Vice President and Group Director of Global Community Affairs and Executive Director of The Coca-ColaFoundation.  Before joining Coca-Cola, she held roles in the tax and accounting departments at BellSouth Corporation and Arthur Andersen & Co. She was licensed as a certified public accountant in the state of Georgia, and has a Masters of Business Administration from Clark Atlanta University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Spelman College.

Quinn was named Director, Flavor Ingredient Supply, replacing Mary Riddle, who is retiring from the company after more than 45 years of service.  In this role, Quinn leads the company’s supply chain activities for all flavor ingredients used across the global system.  

Prior to this role, Quinn was Assistant Director, Flavor Ingredient Supply. She joined The Coca-ColaCompany in 1981 and has held positions of increasing responsibility in Quality Assurance, Recycling Programs and Crisis Management for Coca-ColaNorth America.  Quinn received her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Idaho and her Masters of Business Administration from Georgia State University.                 

The Board today also declared a regular quarterly dividend of 35 cents per common share.  The dividend is payable July 1, 2016, to shareowners of record as of June 15, 2016.  The Board earlier this year approved the company’s 54^th consecutive annual dividend increase, raising the quarterly dividend 6 percent from 33 cents to 35 cents per common share.  This is equivalent to an annual dividend of $1.40 per share, up from $1.32 per share in 2015.