Highland Spring is a Scottish supplier of natural source bottled water. It produces still and

sparkling water Carbonated water (also known as soda water, sparkling water, fizzy water, club soda, water with gas, in many places as mineral water, or especially in the United States as seltzer or seltzer water) is water containing dissolved carbon dioxide gas, ...

at its factory in

Blackford, Perth and Kinross Blackford (Scottish Gaelic: ''Srath Gaoithe'') is located in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, approximately from the town of Auchterarder. The village is located just off the A9 between Perth and Stirling which has been bypassed since 1978. It is ...

, although despite the name this area is not within the

Scottish Highlands The Highlands ( sco, the Hielands; gd, a’ Ghàidhealtachd , 'the place of the Gaels') is a historical region of Scotland. Culturally, the Highlands and the Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Sc ...

. Its water is sourced from protected, organic land in the

Ochil Hills The Ochil Hills (; gd, Monadh Ochail is a range of hills in Scotland north of the Forth valley bordered by the towns of Stirling, Alloa, Kinross, Auchterarder and Perth. The only major roads crossing the hills pass through Glen Devon/ Gle ...

. Highland Spring is the UK's leading natural source water brand. UK sales volumes grew by 6.3% to 348.6 million litres in 2021, securing a healthy market share of 10.0% of the total UK plain packaged water volumes. The company has expanded through

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and also by acquisition, taking over the Gleneagles Spring Water Company, also based in Blackford, in 2001, the Speyside Glenlivet Water Company, based in

Ballindalloch Ballindalloch ( gd, Baile na Dalach) is a small village on the River Spey in Scotland. It is known for its whisky distilleries and for Ballindalloch Castle. In Ballindalloch itself, there are two distilleries, Cragganmore distillery and Balli ...

in 2009, and acquiring Campsie Spring (Glasgow) from Greencore in 2010. The company formally ceased production at the Speyside Glenlivet Water Company site in 2020. Simon Oldham and Mark Steven were appointed Joint Managing Directors in August 2021, following Les Montgomery's retirement from as Chief Executive after 36 years with the business. The company is owned by billionaire

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businessman Mahdi Al Tajir. In June 2018, the company became the first UK water brand to introduce and trial a 100% recycled and recyclable plastic bottle in a bid to cut

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. Following the success of the trial, in January 2019, it formally launched a commercial bottle range that was 100% recycled and recycled called "Eco-Bottle". As of 2020, its entire "Eco-Bottle" sub-range is made from 100% recycled PET plastic.

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External links

Highland Spring official siteHighland Spring Group official site
Bottled water brands Companies based in Perth and Kinross Scottish brands