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Market trends in bottled water in South Africa

Sep 26th, 08:17


Market trends in bottled water in South Africa
 Feedback report form BMi Research

Bottled water market has increased from 2011 – 2012 in volume. Players in the market feel that the rise in bottled water has to do with consumers believing that bottled water is healthier than tap water. Category value growth was driven jointly by the price per litre increase as well as by the volume growth. The prices increased due to natural inflationary pressures.

In terms of packaging demand, glass usage declined during 2012, while PET demand strengthened. There has been a shift from glass into PET making this pack type dominant in the bottled water industry. Functional breakdown flavour increased in volume and in share, which shows that there has been a shift from sparkling and still product flavours as those have decreased in volume and share.

Still unflavoured water continues to dominate and the functional breakdown flavour is developing and maturing as players believe that functional waters have been enhanced with specific ingredients which deliver health and wellbeing benefits.

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