Vilsa fountain

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VILSA FOUNTAIN
Otto Rodekohr GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1911
Seat Alte Drift 1
27305 Bruchhausen-Vilsen
management Henning Rodekohr,
Peter Albers,
Michael Reinhardt
Number of employees 446
sales 103.48 million euros
Branch Beverage industry
Website www.vilsa.de
Status: 2016

Vilsa-Brunnen , ( proper spelling : VILSA ) [ fɪlza ], is a mineral fountain company based in Bruchhausen-Vilsen in the district of Diepholz ( Lower Saxony ), 35 km south of Bremen . The company is run by the fourth generation of the Rodekohr family. The spring was discovered in Bruchhausen-Vilsen in 1909. The entry in the commercial register took place in 1912.

The product portfolio of the Vilsa brand includes mineral water products as well as numerous soft drinks. The natural mineral water is available with different carbonic acid levels in the varieties classic , medium, lightly pearly and natural as well as naturally flavored mineral water. In addition, fruit spritzers, wellness drinks, vitamin-fruit juice drinks and lemonades are sold. According to its own information, Vilsa was the market leader in northern Germany in 2017 and delivered over half a billion products per year, 80% of which were mineral water. Around 500 million bottles are filled in the production facility every year.

In a comparison test of 30 medium water brands by Stiftung Warentest, Vilsa came off second worst in 2017, as the testers devalued the product, which was delivered in plastic bottles, due to a clear plastic taste. Stiftung Warentest had already issued similar criticism in 2014 ("Only Vilsa is sensory deficient this time, it tasted strongly of plastic"). In July 2019, the 0.75l PET returnable bottle Vilsa naturelle received the results of "very good" (1.0) and "good" (1.6) for all verifiable laboratory values from Stiftung Warentest in the section "The great water check" , the overall grade was devalued by the taste grade. Also in July 2019, the Öko-Test rated the Vilsa classic variety in the 1l PET returnable bottle in their mineral water test (no. 07/2019) with the grade "very good".

Since 2019, Vilsa has been using 100% recycled PET (rPET or PET recyclate) and recycling labels for one-way bottles. Vilsa has also been offering a product with an organic mineral water seal since 2019. This stands for stricter limit values ​​than prescribed by law and environmentally friendly processing in the entire production process.

The company acts as a sponsor for the soccer club SV Werder Bremen and Hamburger SV and in 2010 supplied another Bundesliga club, Borussia Dortmund .

Vilsa group

The group of companies also includes Mineralwasserbrunnen Anna Zimmermann GmbH (Auenwald, Mineau, Herzog-Wigbert-Quelle, Lesumer Urquell and Lesmona) , Bremer Schweiz Mineralwasserbrunnen GmbH and, since 2001, Bad Pyrmonter Mineral- und Heilquellen GmbH & Co. OHG, Bad Pyrmonter .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2016 in the eBundesanzeiger
  2. ↑ Over 100 years of VILSA - a history. Retrieved March 29, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Florian Schwiegershausen: Vilsa in water test only penultimate . June 28, 2017 ( weser-kurier.de [accessed on August 1, 2018]).
  4. ↑ VILSA - Our company. Accessed June 5, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Alfons Frese: Not particularly clean . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . July 24, 2014, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed August 1, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Excellent purity: VILSA mineral water receives top marks. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Mineral water test: every third brand burdened. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .
  8. ↑ “I was a bottle!” - VILSA is switching to 100 percent “r-PET”. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  9. ↑ The new VILSA gourmet bottle. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  10. ↑ VILSA organic mineral water. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  11. ↑ sponsors. Retrieved August 1, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co KGaA: VILSA - cooperation with pleasure. Retrieved on August 1, 2018 (German).

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Coordinates: 52 ° 49 ′ 5.2 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 49.1 ″  E