Spring water
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suffolksmallholder
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- Location
- Suffolk
An old friend was involved with the expansion here; https://www.blenheimpalace.com/estate/blenheim-palace-mineral-water/ in the late 90's
Long established extraction & marketing so they already have their market. If you have a good source you'll have possibilities but I'd imagine it's like all things......Down to marketing!
SS
Long established extraction & marketing so they already have their market. If you have a good source you'll have possibilities but I'd imagine it's like all things......Down to marketing!
SS
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
I bought some plastic bottle crates last year off a family firm that were quitting selling spring water.
Their reason was that the competitors were so massive that while they could bottle and sell 1000 bottles a week the competition could do that in an hour and cheaper.
Their reason was that the competitors were so massive that while they could bottle and sell 1000 bottles a week the competition could do that in an hour and cheaper.
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
I'm fairly confident you wouldn't be allowed to sell poor quality water.
If I buy bottled water I get it from the supermarket and pay £1 per gallon, many other people buy according to brand so if it isn't in an Evian bottle they don't want it. Price doesn't come into it for those people.
Can you compete against that?
Top and tail of it is you won't know unless you try and at the end of the day it is just water which as often as not is fine out of a tap at £2/1000litres.
If I buy bottled water I get it from the supermarket and pay £1 per gallon, many other people buy according to brand so if it isn't in an Evian bottle they don't want it. Price doesn't come into it for those people.
Can you compete against that?
Top and tail of it is you won't know unless you try and at the end of the day it is just water which as often as not is fine out of a tap at £2/1000litres.
rusty
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- Location
- Buxton Derbyshire
Had a tour around a well established water bottling business about 4 years . In quite a big way run by a farming family. Previous year they said they had made less than 100k which for the investment and agro of running a business that size I didn't think it was worth it.
So how much will it cost to just bottle it?
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
An estate near us put in a bottled water plant costing, I believe, over £1million, but it only lasted a year or two before closing down due to the established competition.
It looked like a license to print money, but the reality was rather different.
It looked like a license to print money, but the reality was rather different.
Probably got a grant for it , now it’s not used the building will become a house
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
It must be super competitive. I know one firm that got into it early on, and then stopped a few years back. Seemed a strange move to me, but seems there just isn’t the money in it for smaller guys, even if you were one of the first and have an established brand.
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
My godfather was involved in that too! They’ve had their troubles over the years too so it isn’t all plain sailing even if you already have the name.
rusty
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- Location
- Buxton Derbyshire
Buxton water close to me. Now owned by Nestle . They built a massive bottling plant about 10 years ago about 2 miles out side Buxton and put a pipeline in to take the water from the original bottling site in the town to the new site. Don't know what the investment was but probably in excess of 10Million.