2 questions to Nestlé Waters' CEO:
What do you mean by Nestlé Waters, The Healthy Hydration Company ™?
Water is essential for life: it is at the core of nutrition and, therefore, health. Over the years, Nestlé Waters has developed an outstanding expertise in bottled water. This expertise extends from quality preservation to knowledge on its health benefits to making different formats available that respond to the different hydration needs of consumers. Beyond this, in a context of growing water quality problems linked to rapid urbanisation and health issues as a result of rising obesity in the world, I am deeply convinced that our bottled waters represent, as far as their scope allows, part of the solution.
What does it mean to be the leader of the bottled water market?
Being leader means that we have a responsibility towards populations (consumers, local communities, employees) and the environment. Nestlé Waters is conscious of the environmental impacts of our business; this is why a large part of our R&D has always focused on water resource protection and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Our leadership is the result of the pooling of expertise and the everyday hard work of the women and men passionate about bottled water, which is a fascinating product.
John J. Harris
Executive Vice President
Chairman and CEO of Nestlé Waters
Being the world's leading bottled water company is based on a solid economic model: strong brands, global presence, innovation capacity, environmental stewardship and passionate people.
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Introduction to Nestlé Waters
Nestlé Waters in a few facts
Created in 1992.
Today Nestlé Waters is the number one bottled water company worldwide. Click here to display our key figures pages.
With around one hundred production sites in 36 countries, Nestlé Waters has 30,260 employees and a portfolio of 67 unique brands, enabling to constantly innovate in order to meet the different expectations of consumers all over the world. Among those brands Nestlé PURE LIFE has become in 2008 the largest bottled water brand sold in the world.
The Healthy Hydration Company ™
In view of the growing public health challenges linked to obesity in the world, when it comes to hydration, bottled water is the healthiest packaged beverage thanks to its absence of calories, its controlled origins, its outstanding quality, its taste and convenience. As the world leading company in bottled water, Nestlé Waters regularly carries out research to help better consumers better understand the important role of water and hydration for health and actively supports education about it. More on the Hydration section.
This website features also a large section dedicated to environment. Because bottled water is a highly visible product throughout the world it has sometimes been at the heart of an environmental controversy. Since its creation, Nestlé Waters is striving to remain best in class in terms of managing the environmental impacts of its activities. In fact, as the world's bottled water leader, Nestlé Waters has made of sustainable water use a top priority. Nestlé Waters has also continued its work to optimize packaging weight: From 2003 to 2008, the average weight of its bottles was reduced by 22%. In parallel, the Group is contributing to the collection of used packaging and/or plays a role in raising awareness about the importance of recycling. Nestlé Waters supports solutions which minimize the environmental impact of the transportation of its products, giving preference for instance to rail whenever possible.
More on the environment section.
