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Subject: Starting a Bottled Water Business
Category: Business and Money
Asked by: chris64-ga
List Price: $8.00
Posted: 06 Aug 2002 20:25 PDT
Expires: 05 Sep 2002 20:25 PDT
Question ID: 51566
Where do I find info on starting a Bottled Walter Business or how
would I get started in that type of business?
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Subject: Re: Starting a Bottled Water Business
Answered By: easterangel-ga on 06 Aug 2002 23:18 PDT
 
Hi! Thanks for the very interesting and important question.

The following articles discuss the initial steps you will have to
contend with in setting up your bottled water business. You would need
Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the first document. You can download the
Adobe Acrobat Reader at
(http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html ).

Getting Started in the Bottled Water Business:
Source Water Development
by Barbara L. Marteney & Kristin Saltzgiver
http://www.ntllabs.com/pdf/businesses/bottledwater/resources/articles/articles_gettingstarted.pdf

http://www.ntllabs.com/pdf/businesses/bottledwater/resources/articles/articles_gettingstarted_licensing.pdf

If you are going to set-up a bottled water plant the Natural Pure
Water website has the basics you would need to know.

BOTTLED WATER PLANTS
http://naturalpurewater.com/bottled_water_plants.htm

CHECK-LIST: REQUIRED PLANNING DATA FOR BOTTLED WATER PLANTS
http://naturalpurewater.com/bottled_checklist.htm

Bottled Water Plant Regulations
http://naturalpurewater.com/bottled_water_plantrr.htm

The Bottled Water Web website provides a lot of information on the
industry and of setting up a bottled water business. This also
includes federal government regulations discussed in the first link.

Regulations and Government Institutions you should be concerned about.
In case something was missed on the first two government regulations
link.
http://www.bottledwaterweb.com/regulations.html

Next you would want to get contacts for your business; the website
also has a directory of such necessary suppliers.

Bottled water suppliers
http://www.bottledwaterweb.com/suppl/supp.html

To get an idea of the prices of different bottled water products at
supermarkets this link will be of help:

Bottled Water Web – Price Scan
http://www.bottledwaterweb.com/pricescan.html

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In order to be successful it is always helpful to know a little bit
about the industry you are trying to penetrate:

FAQs of the Water Industry
http://www.bottledwaterweb.com/qna.html

The following are facts and figures about the bottled water industry:
http://www.bottledwaterweb.com/indus.html

Finally, it is always good to learn from the successful companies in
this industry and the studies made on it, so these links will be of
interest to you since the stories provide us with business lessons.

Perrier
http://www.ucad.fr/pubgb/virt/mp/perrier/

Suntory Water Group
http://www.suntorywatergroup.com/about_us/cor1513_corhis.asp

The next article “Bottled Water: Pure Drink or Pure Hype?” Is an
interesting case study by the NRDC or Natural Resources Defense
Council.
http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/bwinx.asp

Search terms used:
Starting +a bottled water business 

I hope this is what you were looking for. Before rating this answer,
please ask for a clarification if you have a question or if you would
need further information.  Thanks for being a part of Google Answers.

Regards,
Easterangel-ga
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