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Ballygowan water

{{short description |Brand of mineral water}}

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{{Infobox company

| name = Ballygowan water

| logo = Ballygowan Water logo.jpeg

| logo_caption = Ballygowan water's current logo

| founded = {{Start date and age|1981}}

| founders = Geoff Read and Richard Nash

| hq_location = Dublin{{cite web | url=https://www.ballygowan.ie/privacy-policy/ | title=Ballygowan - Total Water Solutions for all your workplace hydration needs. Over 20 years of experience & a broad product range to suit all company sizes }}

| hq_location_country = Ireland

| area_served = Ireland

United Kingdom

| products = Bottled water

Water coolers

| owner = Britvic{{cite web | url=https://www.ballygowan.ie/privacy-policy | title=Ballygowan - Total Water Solutions for all your workplace hydration needs. Over 20 years of experience & a broad product range to suit all company sizes }}

| website = {{URL|ballygowan.ie}}

}}

Ballygowan is an Irish brand of mineral water. It is bottled at Newcastle West in County Limerick, near its source at the site of a reputed holy well used by the Knights Templar. Ballygowan is the leading water brand in the Irish market.

The company was founded by Geoff Read in 1981, who launched a marketing and distribution joint venture in 1984 with Richard Nash, a soft drink manufacturer. Anheuser-Busch took a stake in 1987, which was bought back in 1989. In 1993, Ballygowan was bought by Cantrell and Cochrane (now C&C), which sold its non-alcoholic brands to Britvic in 2007.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2007/may/14/6|title=Britvic buys Ballygowan bottled water brand|last=Walsh|first=Fiona|date=14 May 2007|work=The Guardian|accessdate=11 August 2014}} The 1993 deal involved Nash selling the source but retaining part of the source area, which it later used for its own rival spring water brand.{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/business/nash-continues-to-sparkle-1.1116367|title=Nash continues to sparkle|date=17 November 2000|newspaper=The Irish Times|accessdate=15 August 2016}}

Products

Ballygowan sell a range of bottled water products.{{Cite web |title=Ballygowan - Our Products |url=https://www.ballygowan.ie/products/ |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=www.ballygowan.ie}}

= On the Go range =

The "On the Go" range includes:

  • 500ml still water
  • 500ml sparkling water
  • 750ml still water
  • 1L still water (sports bottle)

= With a Hint of Fruit range =

The "With a Hint of Fruit" range includes 5 flavours:

  • Strawberry
  • Summer Fruits
  • Mango and Passion Fruit
  • Peach
  • Watermelon

The range comes in both 750ml and 1.5L bottles

= At Home range =

The "At Home" range is Ballygowan's larger bottles and multipack range and is sold in the following sizes:

  • 1.5L
  • 2L
  • 6 x 500ml
  • 6 x 1.5L

= Glass Range =

This range is Ballygowan water sold in glass bottles and comes as:

  • 330ml still and sparkling
  • 750ml still and sparkling

= At Home and Workplace Range =

This range offers much larger sized bottles for your water cooler, these are available as follows:

  • 11L still
  • 18.9L still

References

=Sources=

  • {{cite book|editor1-last=LaMoreaux |editor1-first=Philip E. |editor2-last=Tanner |editor2-first=Judy T. |title=Springs and Bottled Waters of the World: Ancient History, Source, Occurrence, Quality and Use |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sjEoBmfUka0C&pg=PA284 |accessdate=11 August 2014 |date=2001-07-27 |chapter=8.36 Ballygowan Natural Mineral Water |first=S. |last=O'Neill |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=9783540618416 |pages=284–7}}
  • {{cite book|last=Hourihane|first=Ann Marie|title=She Moves Through the Boom|year=2000|publisher=Sitric Books|isbn=9781903305034|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/shemovesthroughb0000hour}}
  • {{cite web |url=http://trap.ncirl.ie/417/1/Sarah_Dobbs.pdf |first=Sarah |last=Dobbs |year=2000 |publisher=National College of Ireland |title=An Examination of the Effectiveness of Ballygowan in Building Brand Awareness |accessdate=11 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812211325/http://trap.ncirl.ie/417/1/Sarah_Dobbs.pdf |archive-date=12 August 2014 |url-status=dead }}

=Citations=

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External links

  • [http://www.ballygowan.ie www.ballygowan.ie] Official website

Category:Bottled water brands

Category:Food and drink in Ireland

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