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Eden Springs International is a provider of water and coffee solutions to workplaces for their employees and customers. The company is headquartered in Switzerland and has operations in 15 countries. Eden's water product offerings include stand-alone bottle-fed water coolers, point-of-use plumbed-in water coolers and small pack bottles. Eden's office coffee solutions include coffee machines, coffee, tea and other beverage accessories. Eden provided service to over 450,000 companies in 15 countries and delivered over 500 million liters of water in 2013.〔()〕 Eden Springs has a large customer base in Europe.〔()〕 ==History== Eden Springs International S.A., was launched providing water cooler operations in Poland in 1997. The Swiss market followed in 1999, and became the location of the company’s European headquarters. It now also provides coffee machines.〔(Eden Springs now offering coffee )〕 In 2007, Eden Springs bought out the Danone share and brought in private equity investment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eden Springs' Raanan Zilberman on cracking the home market )〕 In 2009, Eden's UK website won the International Web Marketing Association's best business to business website award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Eden Springs UK website wins top international award )〕 It secured a EUR 150 million credit facility with a consortium of European banks headed by Rabobank and Royal Bank of Scotland in November 2011.〔(Euroweek.com ).〕 It has also acquired 60 companies in Europe.〔http://www.acquisition-intl.com/online-editons/2011/dec/〕 Since 2007 Eden has been working to minimize its carbon footprint, offsetting its carbon emissions in the majority of its European markets via Carbon Neutral Certification.〔(Eden Springs case study )〕 The company worked with Swiss experts Quantis International to analyse the entire life cycle of the business.〔(Eden Springs UK goes carbon neutral )〕 In 2011 the company received first prize in the Aqua Awards 2011 for Best Environmental Practice.〔(Watercoolerseurope.eu ).〕 Also in 2011, the company launched a partnership with People help People - One World〔(People help People - one world ).〕 to supply clean drinking water systems in Africa.〔(Optimistworld.com ).〕 In 2013 Eden Springs acquired the UK coffee vending supplier, Kafevend.〔(Eden Springs UK acquires Kafevend )〕 Eden Springs International operates in 15 countries including Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (under the name Château d'eau), Israel (under the name Mey Eden), Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. In September 2014, Eden Springs announced the acquisition of five water cooler businesses from Nestlé Waters Direct, a division of Nestlé Waters. The deal involves the acquisition of NWD’s water cooler activities in five European countries. Already servicing offices with water and/or coffee across 15 countries, this acquisition provides new markets in Germany, Russia and Portugal, and enhanced positions in Poland and the Netherlands. The NWD acquisition will increase Eden’s installed client base from over 650,000 to approximately one million. 〔(Eden Springs announces acquisition )〕 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「Eden Springs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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