Sol Daurella

Sol Daurella is famously media shy. The 58-year-old, now the company’s chairwoman, has aggressively cobbled together one of largest networks of beverage bottlers across Europe and Asia CCEP bottles one of the world’s most recognizable consumer products — Coke — as well as Sprite, Monster, Fanta and Powerade, which it distributes across 31 countries. In Spain, Santiago Daurella, Sol’s grandfather, acquired one such license in the 1950s The clan’s net worth is now estimated to be at least $8 billion, with Sol’s own fortune making up about half that total, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Sol joined the family business after an MBA in Barcelona and a stint at a consulting firm. she helped orchestrate a deal that created the largest independent bottler of Coca-Cola products in the world, which she now heads, folding in bottling operations in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. In 2021, the firm acquired Australia’s Coca-Cola Amatil — which controls bottling in the large Indonesian market. Sol is the most visible figure in the Daurella clan, which includes her nine cousins, their children and other relatives. The family owns more than 15% of CCEP through holding company Cobega. Cobega, which the Daurella family controls, has also invested in businesses like the Spanish franchise of Domino’s restaurants and Nespresso capsules. Only two other members of the family — Sol’s cousin Alfonso Libano Daurella and her cousin’s ex-husband Mario Rotllant Sola — sit on CCEP’s board of directors. Also on the board is Daurella’s friend, Ana Botin, chairwoman of Banco Santander SA. Daurella sits on the bank’s board. Her husband Carles Vilarrubi, a former vice-president of the soccer club FC Barcelona and the ex-vice chairman of Rothschild Spain, supported the Catalan independence movement in 2017.