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Malvern Water is a brand of bottled drinking water obtained from a spring in the range of Malvern Hills that marks the border between the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire in England.〔 The water is a natural spring water from the hills that consist of very hard granite rock. Fissures in the rock retain rain water, which slowly permeates through, escaping at the springs.〔 The springs release an average of about 60 litres a minute. The flow depends on rainfall and can vary from as little as 36 litres (8 gallons) per minute to over 350 litres (77 gallons) per minute.〔〔 Malvern Water is now exclusively bottled by the Holywell Water Company Ltd under the name Holywell Malvern Spring Water. The major bottling plant was located in Colwall and owned by the Coca-Cola Corporation and was marketed under the original brand of Schweppes who began bottling it on a commercial scale in 1850. Coca Cola Enterprises announced the closure of their plant on 20 October 2010, with the final production in November that year. From 2009 it has been exclusively bottled on a smaller scale by the family-owned Holywell Water Company with still and sparkling versions available. ==History== Malvern water has been bottled and distributed in the United Kingdom and abroad from the 16th century,〔 with water bottling at the Holy Well being recorded in 1622.〔 Various local grocers have bottled and distributed Malvern water during the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it was first bottled on a large commercial scale by Schweppes, who opened a bottling plant at Holywell in Malvern Wells in 1850. The water was first introduced by Schweppes as Malvern Soda, later renaming it Malvern Seltzer Water in 1856.〔〔 In 1890 Schweppes moved away from Holywell, entered into a contract with a Colwall family, and built a bottling plant in the village in 1892.〔〔 The Holywell was subsequently leased to John and Henry Cuff, who bottled there until the 1960s.〔〔〔 The Holywell became derelict until 2009 when with the aid of a Lottery Heritage grant, production of 1200 bottles per day of Holywell Malvern Spring Water was recommenced by an independent family-owned company.〔 The well is believed to be the oldest bottling plant in the world.〔 In the 1850s Malvern Water was bottled by John and William Burrow at the Bottling Works Spring in Robson Ward's yard on Belle Vue Terrace in Great Malvern. Bottling ceased here in the 1950s and the former bottling works are now a selection of shops, coffee house and kitchen showroom. Water for the Bottling Works Spring is piped from St Ann's Well.〔 In 1927, Schweppes acquired from the Burrows family, Pewtress Spring in Colwall, on the western side of the Herefordshire Beacon, approximately two miles from Colwall village.〔〔 The source emerges at the fault line between the Silurian thrust and the Precambrian diorite and granite above it.〔 The spring was renamed Primeswell Spring, and in 1929 Schweppes commenced bottling.〔〔 The factory employed 25 people who bottled 26 million bottles annually.〔 It was operated by Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd., and the water was sold under the Schweppes brand name.〔 On 20 October 2010 Coca Cola Enterprises, who currently own the Malvern brand, announced that production would be ceasing as of 3 November 2010. This is due to the declining market share Malvern has on the overall water market. On 28 October 2011 it was reported that the bottling plant is being sold to a property company. 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「Malvern Water (bottled water)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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