Item 2. Properties.

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Item 2. Properties.

Our principal executive offices located in Purchase, New York and our facilities located in Plano, Texas, all of which we own, are our most significant corporate properties.

Each division utilizes plants, warehouses, distribution centers, offices and other facilities, either owned or leased, in connection with making, marketing, distributing and selling our products. The approximate number of such facilities utilized by each division is as follows:



	FLNA (a)	QFNA	NAB	Latin America(b)	ESSA	AMENA (c)	Shared (d)
Plants(e)	40	5	65	55	105	50	6
Other Facilities(f)	1,690	2	450	595	390	390	50

(a) Excludes three snack plants and one office that are utilized by FLNA’s joint venture with Strauss Group, all of which are owned or leased by the joint venture.

(b) Excludes properties utilized by our Venezuelan businesses, which were deconsolidated effective as of the end of the third quarter of 2015.

(c) Excludes properties utilized in connection with AMENA’s strategic alliance with Tingyi that are owned or leased by Tingyi, as well as properties which were sold in connection with the refranchising of a portion of our beverage business in India.

(d) Shared properties are in addition to the other properties reported by our six divisions identified in this table. QFNA shares 12 warehouse and distribution centers with NAB and FLNA. QFNA also shares 18 warehouse and distribution centers, one plant, and one research and development laboratory with NAB. FLNA shares one plant with Latin America. NAB, ESSA and AMENA share two plants and a service center. Latin America, NAB and AMENA share one concentrate plant. Latin America and AMENA share an additional concentrate plant. Approximately 20 offices support shared functions.

(e) Includes manufacturing and processing plants as well as bottling and production plants.

(f) Includes warehouses, distribution centers, offices, including division headquarters, research and development facilities and other facilities.

Significant properties by division included in the table above are as follows:


•	FLNA’s research facility in Plano, Texas, which is owned.


•	QFNA’s food plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which is owned.


•	NAB’s concentrate plants in Cork, Ireland, its research and development facility in Valhalla, New York, and a Tropicana plant in Bradenton, Florida, all of which are owned.


•	Latin America’s four snack plants in Mexico (two in Vallejo, one in Celaya and one in Monterrey) and one in Brazil (Guarulhos), all of which are owned.


•	ESSA’s snack plant in Leicester, United Kingdom, which is leased, and its food and snack research and development facility in Leicester, United Kingdom, its beverage plant in Lebedyan, Russia and its dairy plant in Moscow, Russia, all of which are owned.


•	AMENA’s beverage plants in Sixth of October City and Tanta City, Egypt, Rayong, Thailand and Amman, Jordan, and its snack plants in Sixth of October City, Egypt and Queensland, Australia, all of which are owned, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which is leased.


•	Shared service centers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Plano, Texas, which are primarily shared by our FLNA, QFNA and NAB divisions, both of which are leased.

Leases of plants in North America generally are on a long-term basis, expiring at various times, with options to renew for additional periods. Most international plants are owned or leased on a long-term basis. In addition to company-owned or leased properties described above, we also utilize a highly distributed network of plants, warehouses and distribution centers that are owned or leased by our contract manufacturers, co-packers, strategic alliances or joint ventures in which we have an equity interest. We believe that our properties generally are in good operating condition and, taken as a whole, are suitable, adequate and of sufficient capacity for our current operations.

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