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Newstalk's Chris Donoghue and executive vice-president of The Coca-Cola Company and president of Bottling Investments Group, Irial Finan at the Ibec annual lecture
In an interview with broadcaster and journalist Chris Donoghue at Ibec’s annual lecture held late last year, Coca-Cola’s Irial Finan discussed his experiences with one of the world’s most recognisable and influential brands. Gillian Hamill reports on the business insights he had to share
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“Don’t become risk averse on people,” urges Irial Finan. A nugget of advice the Roscommon native is well-placed to give. After all, if no-one had taken a risk on him, he would not have reached his current position of executive vice-president of the Coca-Cola Company and president of Bottling Investments Group (BIG).
The top brass Coca-Cola exec explained how he achieved his rapid career trajectory at Ibec’s annual lecture held in December in the organisation’s
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Irish people have leadership ‘in our DNA’ - Coca-Cola president John Murphy
A beverages behemoth that has broken into more than countries, with net revenues of $43 billion (€ billion) last year alone, the Coca-Cola Company’s portfolio contains universally recognised brands such as Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta, found on the shelves of most corner shops or bars around the world.
However, Navan man John Murphy, who is second in command at the global drinks giant, says “the logistics of getting a bottle of Coke into the hands of a tourist who’s sitting out having a wonderful time on the beach is not to be underestimated”.
Currently chief financial officer and president of the Coca-Cola Company, the Meath native says his 35 years with the company have brought “lots of tremendous learning” about how, both as a leader and as a brand, success is about adapting to changing environments while maintaining authenticity.
Murphy first joined the company as an auditor in , having previously qu
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Donald Keough's Keynote Address at Irish America's Business Luncheon
Failure
I have written a little book [The Ten Commandments for Business Failure]. inom wrote it because it’s about how to fail, and inom wrote it because success has always scared me, it’s always worried me, it’s always frightened me, the word — inom didn’t allow it to be said any time and any place where I’ve been associated, because success flies on its own wings. And built into the DNA of success are two viruses, you can’t avoid them, they’re built into the very word success. It could happen to people, to companies, to countries, and those are viruses of complacency and arrogance, and they destroy so many successful people and successful companies and successful countries. Even now, for us in this country . . . to think about what success can do to you. Years ago I was asked to speak at a big convention, and it was how to be a winner. And I said, well, inom couldn’t komma speak about that because I don’t know a