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Business Stream is a water retail business in Scotland’s competitive non-domestic water market, with its headquarters in Edinburgh. It has offices in Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester. The company is a subsidiary of Scottish Water, the publicly owned utility which serves the residential water market across Scotland. It supplies water and waste water services to an estimated 93,000 non-domestic sites in Scotland, while it also has a commercial presence in England. ==Operation in Scotland== Scotland’s non-domestic water market was opened up to competition on April 1 2008, through the Water Services etc. (Scotland) Act 2005. This made it the first country in the world to adopt competition in the water and waste water supply markets for businesses, public sector organisations and the third sector. Having previously supplied all of Scotland’s properties with water, Scottish Water split its non-domestic arm off to serve the fledgling market. The newly formed company, called Business Stream, acted as the incumbent non-domestic water and waste water supplier serving 100% of organisations in the country.〔("Scottish business spending £100m less on water" ), Utility Week, July 2 2014. Retrieved September 8 2014.〕 Its market share continued to remain extremely high until it began to rapidly lose customers in 2013. With the announcement that its owner, the Scottish Government, will be switching to another supplier in 2015, Business Stream's market share stands to drop below 50%. In July 2014, Business Stream reported that Scottish customers had saved £100 million on their water bills since the market opened to competition.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Business Stream」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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