Bottling at Source

1,000 hectares of unspoiled beauty. Welcome to our home.

Travelling through the Ochil Hills, you’ll see a small collection of buildings that we call home. However, most of the real work is done deep beneath the surface of the protected 1,000-hectare catchment area that surrounds us. Once the water has spent 15 years making its way through heather, earth and rock, it arrives filtered and pure at the spring. To make sure the water arrives as pure as possible, our resident expert, Frank, climbs the hillside and checks the land every single day to ensure everything is as it should be. Then, finally, we are able to carefully bottle our natural treasure so it arrives with you in its purest form.

Thankfully, there’s no shortage of rainfall in the Ochil Hills, so there’s always a lot of water at the spring, and always a lot to do at our plant. We work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, producing 90,000 bottles every hour. In fact, in 2008 we bottled around 240 million litres of water.

As part of our usual day-to-day activities, we’re committed to finding ways to improve what we do. Since 1979, we’ve spent more than £50 million in developing our business. Some of the improvements are simple, and some more advanced – for example, we now operate a state-of-the-art bottle moulding facility on-site to make us that little bit more efficient. And, by using recycled materials and lightweight bottles, we can help do our bit to protect the environment.

The investment we’ve made has certainly paid off. Not only has our land been certified as organic by the Soil Association, but our total quality procedures have won us several Gold awards from the British Bottlers’ Institute.