A Legacy of Entrepreneurship and Name Recognition.
 

Lawyer Louis Bouloumié bought the Gérémoy Spring in the Vosges Mountains of eastern France in 1854 and founded the Vittel Spa two years later. Spa-goers were rapidly won over by the range of treatment. Mr. Bouloumié came up with the idea of bottling Vittel's mineral water to allow them to continue their treatment at home, giving rise to the creation of the "Société Générale des Eaux Minérales de Vittel" (SGEMV) in 1882.
The company celebrated its first million bottles in June 1898; fifty-three years later, in January 1951, production had reached 100 million bottles.

The company was heavily oriented towards innovation, and Vittel revolutionized the industry when it launched the first PVC bottle in May 1968. A year later, Nestlé acquired a 30% stake in the company.
By then, SGEMV was the third largest mineral water company in the French market, and it began to focus on development abroad.

Since the 1970s, the company's success is due to its association with the concept of vitality. The company produced its billionth bottle in October 1990. In 1992, Nestlé bought up almost all of Vittel's remaining share capital and Vittel's growth continued as part of its Water Division. Today, Vittel is one of the world's top ten best-selling brands.