Nestle.comContact us Home About us Brands Bottled water Healthy hydration Creating shared value Media Q&A Jobs Nestlé Waters' story in key dates Executive committee Inside Nestlé Waters : key figures Home > About us About us Nestlé Waters in a few facts Nestlé Waters was created in 1992. Today Nestlé Waters is the number one bottled water company worldwide. Click here to display our key figures pages. With around one hundred production sites in 33 countries, Nestlé Waters has 31,740 employees and a portfolio of 51 unique brands, enabling to constantly innovate in order to meet the different expectations of consumers all over the world. Among those brands Nestlé PURE LIFE has become in 2008 the largest bottled water brand sold in the world. The Healthy Hydration Company ™ Water is considered as the choice for daily hydration as it does not add any calories to diets, especially as public challenges linked to obesity in the world are increasing. Bottled water is the healthiest packaged beverage thanks to its absence of calories, its controlled origins, its outstanding quality, its taste and convenience. As the world leading company in bottled water, Nestlé Waters regularly carries out research to help better consumers better understand the important role of water and hydration for health and actively supports education about it. This website features also a large section dedicated to environment. Because bottled water is a highly visible product throughout the world it has sometimes been at the heart of an environmental controversy. Since its creation, Nestlé Waters is striving to remain best in class in terms of managing the environmental impacts of its activities. In fact, as the world's bottled water leader, Nestlé Waters has made of sustainable water use a top priority. Nestlé Waters has also continued its work to optimize packaging weight: From 2010 to 2015, the weight of its bottles was reduced by 9% per liter produced. In parallel, the Group is contributing to the collection of used packaging and/or plays a role in raising awareness about the importance of recycling. Nestlé Waters supports solutions which minimize the environmental impact of the transportation of its products, giving preference for instance to rail whenever possible. Executive Committee Nestle Waters story in key dates + More on healthy hydration + Key Figures Creating Shared Value DISCOVER Contact us Legal information Site map Nestle.com Jobs Blog Water stories