13 Facts About Evian

Evian is a French company that bottles and commercialises mineral water from several sources near Evian-les-Bains, on the south shore of Lake Geneva.

Today, Evian is owned by Danone, a French multinational corporation.

Water at Evian was first claimed to as benefit health by Jean-Charles de Laizer, Count of Laizer, during 1789.

Evian first became a public company in 1859 as the "Societe anonyme des eaux minerales de Cachat" and a year later it became French when Savoy was incorporated into France under the Treaty of Turin.

In 1908 Evian water began to be sold in glass bottles manufactured by the glass factory Souchon-Neuvesel, which today is a part of Owens-Illinois.

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Evian produces 6 million plastic bottles per day, over 2 billion per year.

In popular culture, Evian is portrayed as a luxury and expensive bottled water.

David LaChapelle photographed an evian campaign juxtaposing a supermodel next to an Evian fountain formed from a Greek statue, which was painted to look like stone by Joanne Gair.

Evian worked with Virgin Records and EMI in 1998 for the mix album Club Nation.

In 2009, Evian launched the advertisement campaign, "Evian Roller Babies".

In 2014, Evian collaborated with The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to create an advertisement, gaining 150+ million views on YouTube.

Evian has taken the initiative to cut their own energy and water use by incorporating post-consumer recycled PET plastic into the bottle sizes that receive the most sales.

Evian has joined with RecycleBank in an effort to get consumers to recycle.