Perrier (mineral water)
Perrier is a French carbonated mineral water whose source is in the south of the country, near Vergèze in the Gard department , where the Cevennes descend into the Rhone Valley . It is sold in over 140 countries worldwide. The water is offered in a green, club-shaped bottle.
history
Allegedly the source was already known to the Romans , and Hannibal is said to be there in 218 BC. Before he crossed the Alps. What is certain, however, is that Emperor Napoleon III. In 1863 gave permission to run a hotel and spa around the source. The doctor in charge was then D. Louis Perrier. He became the namesake of water. At the turn of the century before last, the Englishman St. John Harmsworth took over the facility. He had the mineral water bottled for the first time.
In the spring of 1990, the US health authority found benzene residues in bottles of Perrier mineral water. As a result of the take-back, the company claims to have suffered damage of 200 million francs. Perrier has been part of the Nestlé Water Group since 1992 .
literature
- Ernst Christian Schütt, Chronik 1979, Chronik Verlag, p. 40, ISBN 3-611-00172-4
Web links
- Perrier (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zeit-Online: The time archive. DIE ZEIT, February 16, 1990, No. 8.