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Bottled Water: Strong and Healthy Growth

November 17, 2015 : Santa Barbara, CA : BWW :

Despite the naysayers bottled water keeps growing. U.S. bottled water volume rose 7% in 2014, putting it on track to outsell soda by 2017, according to forecasts by industry tracker Beverage Marketing Corp. Nestle water brands, including Pure Life and Poland Spring, sold more water than soda last year, making Nestlé the No. 3 company in the U.S. for nonalcoholic beverages, according to Beverage Digest.

This is unsettling news for Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, which together control roughly two thirds of the higher-margin U.S. soda market. Between 2000 and 2014, per capita bottled-water consumption more than doubled to 34 gallons from 16 ...Read more...

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