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No.11062   April 21, 2011

Suntory Beverage & Food Limited to Begin Import, Sale of PepsiCo, Inc.'s Aquafina Purified Bottled Water To meet rapid rise in demand for drinking water in PET bottles


Suntory Beverage & Food Limited (SBF) will begin importing Aquafina purified water in 500ml PET bottles from PepsiCo, Inc. (headquarters: Purchase, New York State; Chairman and CEO: Indra K. Nooyi), with nationwide sales to commence as soon as late May.

In response to the demand for drinking water in PET bottles, which has risen rapidly in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake, SBF has made the decision to import Aquafina for nationwide sale in Japan. Aquafina is produced in the US by PepsiCo, with which SBF maintains a beverage-business alliance. Plans call for an initial procurement of 800,000 cases, with a total of approximately 3 million cases to be imported in time for summer sales.

Aquafina bottled water is popular in more than 30 countries around the world. The product is purified, making it suitable as drinking water for infants as well as for use in cooking rice.

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