(Reuters) – Bottler Coca-Cola Europacific Partners said on Friday it plans to change its London stock listing category, in a move that would make the company potentially eligible for inclusion in the benchmark FTSE 100 index.
In July, Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rolled out the biggest reform of UK listings rules in decades in a bid to help London compete better with New York and, after Brexit, with European Union financial centres such as Paris and Amsterdam.
A new rule merged the previous two-tier standard and more onerous premium listing segments into a single category, making it easier for companies to become eligible for inclusion in London’s FTSE indexes.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, which is also listed in New York, Madrid and Amsterdam, has a market value of 32.65 billion euros ($35.42 billion).
A FTSE 100 listing would make it among the top 30 companies listed on the index. The FTSE constituents are reviewed…
