Is Evian shipped already bottled or do they send it over in tankers and bottle it is the States? Are there any beverages shipped in tankers and then bottled?
From here,
I do not know the bottling specifics about other beverages.
If you think that EVIAN is any better (or worse ) than the other brands out there…spell it backwards.
Evian is not shipped, it’s too expensive to ship water. Empty bottles are shipped and the stores fill them up in the employee washroom.
As far as the second question, soft drinks are generally bottled at regional bottling plants after the syrup has been shipped by the manufacturer. I do not know how the syrup itself is shipped, however.
Isn’t milk moved around in tankers?
Yes, but first milk is moved around in bovines.
Darn you, CWG! I was about to suggested that it was shipped in dehydrated form to save money …
Ultimately, what you’re paying for with Evian is about 1% packaging, 3% marketing, and 96% transportation costs. They have to load these bottles of water on ships in France, sail them across the ocean, then by truck or rail over mountains and rivers … But it’s worth it, to get the special qualities of the water from that particular spring. Come to think of it, maybe it’s 1% packaging, 93% marketing …
What gets me is some of the off-brands. There’s one for sale here in TX, USA (I forget which), where when you look at the fine print, you find the source of the water is ‘the Houston municipal water system’. I’m serious. This must really chafe the shorts of people who buy it in Houston without reading the label until after. 
Wow, not a penny profit? These Evian guys sure are nice… 
Is Evian especially expensive in the US? Here in the UK it is not a particularly expensive brand… but then I guess we are a lot closer to the source.
Just don’t get me started on that “oxygenated water” :rolleyes:
Around $1.09 for a 20oz bottle, IIRC.
That’s a little high. Aquafina®, Dasani®, and DejaBlue® are all around .99 for a 20oz bottle. And you can get off-brands for around .69 for a 20oz bottle.
Believe it or not, I can taste the difference between certain brands of bottled water. And Evian® definitely tastes the best.
BTW, how do you pronounce “Evian”? Since it’s a French word, I’m guessing “Ahh-vee-AHN.”
I have visited the SPA water bottling plant in southern Belgium and that is an automated operation that process the bottles at a very fast rate. I imagine the Evian plant would be the same.
It’s “Eh-vee-ON” (Gosh, my phonetics are bad).
Doesn’t all water have oxygen? I mean, otherwise it’d be liquid hydrogen, and that wouldn’t be too refreshing after a tough workout.
I think by ‘oxygenated’ water, the water itself has oxygen gas dissolved in it. Perhaps this changes the taste of the water, but who knows (water normally absorbs oxygen gas on the surface- that’s how fish are able to breathe!)
…it makes your journey toward nirvana faster! Seriously, whoever figured out how to sell bottled water was a genius! Water is…water…H2O…all the same. Granted, some water tastes TERRIBLE (because of alge, excess chlorine, iron etc.). But with a cheap filter, tap water tastes as good as the best bottled stuff.
My gawd…the energy wasted in shipping water in bottles from france!
Would YOU buy my ganges River water? Good Karma is guaranteed! :dubious:
There was an article in BusinessWeek a few weeks ago about Coca-Cola that mentioned the Dasani brand of bottled water that the company now sells. Of course for the regular soda products the bottlers purchase concentrated syrup from the company. For Dasani, the bottlers buy “mineral packets” from the company.
I’m not saying the Evian isn’t overpriced. But how can people deny that spring water from various locales is different? We’re not talking about distilled water here.
In the UK they weren’t even doing that for Dasani. In this case they were using ordinary tap water , putting it through some extra filtering process and then selling it for over a pound a bottle. When this news broke sales went through the floor and it is reckoned to be one of the most costly marketing disasters ever.
Here is the BBC news story :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3523303.stm
Actually, according to the article you linked to, they were doing exactly that. Namely, they were adding minerals to purified tap water. My guess is that they want to achieve a consistent taste, so they do that by careful control of the ingredients, no matter where the water is bottled. Start with pure water, add a precisely measured list of minerals and the result should taste the same in London or Los Angeles.
The news that caused them problems was not that the product is modified tap water (which is, after all, what most beverages are) but that some samples had excessive amounts of bromate, caused by the calcium chloride added in compliance with local laws.
Actually that’s not true. I can assure you that the fact that it was just tap water was front page news on several newspapers, a week or so BEFORE the bromate story broke.
You see, here in the UK, if we buy bottled water we want it to be spring water. It can then be labelled as “natural mineral water”. We don’t have a culture of buying “purified” (ie filtered tap) water, as a lot of countries do.
Of course, it didn’t help that Coca-Cola came out with moronic quotes like “Dasani is as pure as water can get” and then in the next breath listing the minerals that were added. Er, so it isn’t PURE then is it :wally