shareholders voted Tuesday to approve a European bottling merger, which would create the largest independent Coke bottler by sales world-wide. Murphy currently heads operations in Argentina and five smaller South American countries, and previously, oversaw the company’s businesses in Central America and the Caribbean from 2008 to 2012. Quincey, who took a prominent role at an annual meeting with Coke bottlers in Greece earlier this month. Nathan Kalumbu, 52, and current president of Eurasia and Africa, will focus on projects in Africa before retiring from the company at the end of December. The moves also come as Coke divests manufacturing and distribution assets in North America to focus on its more profitable concentrate business while deepening a consolidation drive among overseas bottling partners. Coke says the changes align its business more closely with bottlers’ geographic footprints. Quincey, who now looks more likely than ever to succeed Coke Chief Executive Muhtar Kent, also is realigning the international structure. The company is creating a consolidated Europe, Middle East and Africa group in the latest attempt to boost profit and revenue amid sluggish soda sales. shook up its management Tuesday, replacing the heads of its Asia and Africa businesses, in the first major