Country Germany/USA Type sparkling Calcium (Ca) 90 Founded 1852 | Source Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler pH 5.8 Chloride (Cl) 130 | |
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Headquarters Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany | ||
Apollinaris is a German naturally sparkling mineral water, owned by Coca-Cola.
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History
The spring was discovered by chance in 1852 in Georg Kreuzberg’s vineyard, in Bad Neuenahr, Germany. He named it after St Apollinaris of Ravenna, a patron saint of wine. The red triangle symbol and the slogan "The Queen of Table Waters" were adopted as trademarks in 1895. By 1913 the company was producing 40 million bottles a year, 90% of which were exported worldwide.
Today the source and the brand of Apollinaris belong to Coca-Cola, which acquired it from the multinational Cadbury-Schweppes in 2006.
Sports sponsorship
In the 1950s and 1960s, Apollinaris co-organised (with the Torck factories of Deinze, Belgium) the commercial beach games "Les Rois du Volant/De Koningen der Baan" on the Belgian coast.