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Ballygowan water

Ballygowan water's current logo
Founded	1981; 43 years ago (1981)
Founders	Geoff Read and Richard Nash
Headquarters	Dublin[1], Ireland
Area served	Ireland United Kingdom
Products	Bottled water Water coolers
Owner	Britvic[2]
Website	ballygowan.ie

Ballygowan is an Irish brand of mineral water. It is bottled at Newcastle West in County Limerick, near its source at the site of a reputed holy well used by the Knights Templar. Ballygowan is the leading water brand in the Irish market.

The company was founded by Geoff Read in 1981, who launched a marketing and distribution joint venture in 1984 with Richard Nash, a soft drink manufacturer. Anheuser-Busch took a stake in 1987, which was bought back in 1989. In 1993, Ballygowan was bought by Cantrell and Cochrane (now C&C), which sold its non-alcoholic brands to Britvic in 2007.^[3] The 1993 deal involved Nash selling the source but retaining part of the source area, which it later used for its own rival spring water brand.^[4]

Products

Ballygowan sell a range of bottled water products.^[5]

On the Go range

The "On the Go" range includes:

• 500ml still water
• 500ml sparkling water
• 750ml still water
• 1L still water (sports bottle)

With a Hint of Fruit range

The "With a Hint of Fruit" range includes 3 flavours:

• Strawberry
• Summer Fruits
• Mango and Passion Fruit

The range comes in both 750ml and 1.5L bottles

At Home range

The "At Home" range is Ballygowan's larger bottles and multipack range and is sold in the following sizes:

• 1.5L
• 2L
• 6 x 500ml
• 6 x 1.5L

Glass Range

This range is Ballygowan water sold in glass bottles and comes as:

• 330ml still and sparkling
• 750ml still and sparkling

At Home and Workplace Range

This range offers much larger sized bottles for your water cooler, these are available as follows:

• 11L still
• 18.9L still