COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
Britvic leads overall bottled water in 2025
Britvic Ireland, recently acquired by Carlsberg, stands as the leading player in the bottled water category through its iconic brand Ballygowan. The company maintains strong market presence, particularly in the expanding flavoured water segment.
Wholefoods expands through popular Acti-vit brand
Wholefoods Wholesale was among the fastest-growing companies in bottled water in Ireland in 2025, driven by the success of its Acti-Vit brand. Acti-Vit offers three flavoured and enriched sparkling water options in a convenient 330ml can format, tapping directly into accelerating demand for healthy and functional soft drinks.
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Overview:
Understand the latest market trends and future growth opportunities for the Bottled Water industry in Ireland with research from Euromonitor International's team of in-country analysts – experts by industry and geographic specialisation.
Key trends are clearly and succinctly summarised alongside the most current research data available. Understand and assess competitive threats and plan corporate strategy with our qualitative analysis, insight and confident growth projections.
If you're in the Bottled Water industry in Ireland, our research will help you to make informed, intelligent decisions; to recognise and profit from opportunity, or to offer resilience amidst market uncertainty.
The Bottled Water in Ireland report includes:
- Analysis of key supply-side and demand trends
- Detailed segmentation of international and local products
- Historic volume and value sizes, company and brand market shares
- Five year forecasts of market trends and market growth
- Robust and transparent research methodology, conducted in-country
This report answers:
- What is the market size of Bottled Water in Ireland?
- To what extent are health considerations impacting consumption of Bottled Water in Ireland?
- How are changing social attitudes and legislation (eg sugar tax) reshaping demand and consumption?
- How are changing demographics (for example, an ageing or predominantly young population) determining consumption of Bottled Water in Ireland?
- Which are the leading brands in Bottled Water in Ireland?
- What potential exists for multinational or domestic soft drinks companies to expand in Ireland?
- How are products distributed in Bottled Water in Ireland?
- How is the rise of e-commerce changing the retail and competitive landscape?
- How have home seclusion and social distancing measures following COVID-19 impacted sales of Bottled Water?
- How are sustainability issues, such as environmentally-friendly packaging, legislation on recyclability, or the amount of plastic in bottles, impacting the soft drinks industry?
- Where is future growth expected to be most dynamic?
Bottled Water in Ireland - Category analysis
KEY DATA FINDINGS
Wellness focus and safety concerns lift bottled water
Healthy choices and warm weather boost bottled water sales
Functional and flavoured variants gain momentum
Water quality concerns on the rise, supporting an increase in bottled water consumption
Functional waters set to expand through innovation
Sustainability and larger formats offer new growth opportunities
Britvic leads overall bottled water in 2025
Wholefoods expands through popular Acti-vit brand
Supermarkets remains the primary distribution channel for bottled water
Convenience stores continues to expand
Soft Drinks in Ireland - Industry Overview
Current trends supports soft drinks with strong health positioning
KEY DATA FINDINGS
Health trends drives volume growth in soft drinks in 2025
Consumers shift towards functional options, benefiting energy and sports drinks
Demand for convenience continues, boosting RTD coffee and impulse channels
Health, convenience and innovation as key growth drivers for forecast period
Shift away from alcohol set to further boost soft drinks sales
Private label holds potential for stronger expansion
Coca-Cola maintains leadership, with Britvic close behind
Small niche players gain traction in 2025
Supermarkets leads distribution as convenience stores expands
Fountain sales in Ireland
COUNTRY REPORTS DISCLAIMER
The following categories and subcategories are included:
Bottled Water
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- Carbonated Natural Mineral Bottled Water
- Carbonated Spring Bottled Water
- Carbonated Purified Bottled Water
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- Still Flavoured Bottled Water
- Sparkling Flavoured Bottled Water
- Functional Bottled Water
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- Still Natural Mineral Bottled Water
- Still Spring Bottled Water
- Still Purified Bottled Water
Bottled Water
This category is the aggregation of still bottled water (spring, mineral & purified), carbonated bottled water (spring, mineral & purified), flavoured bottled water and functional bottled water. Bulk bottled water is split out separately. It is defined as packaged drinking water – purified, spring or mineral – that is packaged in a container of 8 litres or larger. The bulk bottled water data types apply to Still Bottled Water and Carbonated Bottled Water but do not apply to functional or flavoured bottled water. Bulk water is classified according to the new Bulk retail volume and Bulk retail value data type regardless of channel of sale: bulk water sold via retail locations and bulk water delivered direct to a consumer’s home is included. Bulk water sold to institutions (offices, schools etc.) remains excluded.
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This report originates from Passport, our Bottled Water research and analysis database.
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