"CCE's understanding of Brazil and Lenovo's global scale and innovation engine are a potent combination," said Roberto Sverner, founder and CEO of CCE. "Lenovo brings CCE an unmatched legacy of quality, world leading global innovation expertise, retail network development know-how and tremendous supply chain leverage. Their proven track record to managing complex cross-cultural relationships makes us excited about working together. The combination of CCE and Lenovo is good for the Brazilian economy: it will spur job creation, improve the competitiveness of the CCE product range and enhance the Brazilian operations of a major global company, at a time when we are preparing to showcase Brazil during the World Cup and 2016 Olympics."