With a portfolio of well-known water brands and strong distribution, we expect Danone to be in a great position to profit.
The company also has growth opportunities from the infant nutrition market.
Last year in the United States, for the first time on record, sales of bottled water beat out sugar-laden sodas.
Another market which is emerging as a mass-consumer of bottled water is of course China.
During this time the country has doubled its share of global consumption, and in 2013 overtook the US as the biggest market of bottled water by volume.
It’s not just bottled water that we expect to grow strongly in the country.
The $46 billion global infant nutrition market is expected to grow by a CAGR of 8% through to 2020, with the Asia-Pacific region expected to command a 48% share of the market.
When using the company’s OTCQX-listed shares, our target price would translate to being $15.15.
Because of this we think that now would be a great time to make an investment in the space.
I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

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Why pay for a plastic fantastic when Christchurch Tap is, well, on-tap?
* For sale: 40 billion litres of Canterbury’s purest water * Second Canterbury property with water extraction rights up for sale * Elation as Ashburton council backs out of controversial water bottling deal Which is why the commercial extraction and export of New Zealand sourced pristine drinking water, without any payment of royalties, has become such a hot potato.
With it will go a lucrative water consent allowing over 120 million litres of water a month to be bottled.
That’s 50 one-litre bottles a second.
According to his office, our annual freshwater resource is 500 trillion litres, of which 10 trillion litres is extracted.
Six trillion is harvested for irrigation, over two trillion by industry, two trillion for town water supplies and half a trillion for stock water.
Bottled water in 2016 accounted for 8.7 million litres.
Nick Smith would argue it’s the proverbial drop in the bucket, but it also underscores the enormity of the planned bulk-water extractions in Belfast and South Westland.
A litre of wine, about 200".
But if the government was to embark on a clip-the-ticket regime for commercial bulk-extraction, the detail will be devilish.