Headquarters Switzerland Number of employees 3,000 | Founded 1982 Parent organization Cott | |
Industry Business Services, beverages Key people Raanan Zilberman CEO, Itamar Eder CFO, Shirley Cohen VP Operations, Pierre Torbey VP Sales & Marketing, Olivier Plouvin VP Human Resources Products Bottled water coolers, Plumbed-in water coolers, PET bottles, Office coffee service Subsidiaries Eden Springs UK Ltd., Hydra Dutch Holdings 2 B.V. | ||
Eden Springs International is a provider of water and coffee solutions to workplaces for their employees and customers. The company is headquartered in Switzerland and has operations in 18 countries. Eden's water product offerings include stand-alone bottle-fed water coolers, point-of-use plumbed-in water coolers and small pack bottles. Eden's office coffee solutions include coffee machines, coffee, tea and other beverage accessories. Eden provided service to over 600,000 companies in 18 countries and delivered over 800 million liters of water in 2015. Eden Springs has a large customer base in Europe and in 2014 bought some water cooler business from Nestlé Waters Direct. Some accuse the company of abusing occupied territories in Israel by using the Salukia spring and a bottling plant in Katzrin, both in the occupied Golan Heights.
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History
Eden Springs International S.A., was launched providing water cooler operations in Poland in 1997. The Swiss market followed in 1999, and became the location of the company’s European headquarters. It now also provides coffee machines.
In 2007, Eden Springs bought out the Danone share and brought in private equity investment.
In 2009, Eden's UK website won the International Web Marketing Association's best business-to-business website award. It secured a EUR 150 million credit facility with a consortium of European banks headed by Rabobank and Royal Bank of Scotland in November 2011. It has also acquired 60 companies in Europe.
Since 2007 Eden has been working to minimize its carbon footprint, offsetting its carbon emissions in the majority of its European markets via Carbon Neutral Certification. The company worked with Swiss experts Quantis International to analyse the entire life cycle of the business.
In 2011 the company received first prize in the Aqua Awards 2011 for Best Environmental Practice.
Also in 2011, the company launched a partnership with People help People - One World to supply clean drinking water systems in Africa.
In 2013 Eden Springs acquired the UK coffee vending supplier, Kafevend.
Eden Springs International operates in 18 countries including Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, France (under the name Château d'eau), Israel (under the name Mey Eden), Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
In September 2014, Eden Springs announced the acquisition of five water cooler businesses from Nestlé Waters Direct, a division of Nestlé Waters. The deal involves the acquisition of NWD’s water cooler activities in five European countries. Already servicing offices with water and/or coffee across 15 countries, this acquisition provides new markets in Germany, Russia and Portugal, and enhanced positions in Poland and the Netherlands. The NWD acquisition will increase Eden’s installed client base from over 650,000 to approximately one million.
Water
Eden Springs' water solutions include bottled water coolers, plumbed-in filter systems, PET and sports bottles. In 2013 the company delivered 500 million liters of water to offices and homes. It also launched the SMILE Eco water cooler, a new model that uses 30% less energy than traditional coolers.
Coffee
Eden offers a variety of coffee blends, brands and machines along with its office water solutions. Eden partners with well-known brands including Lavazza, Mars, Robert Paulig and Douwe Egberts
In 2012, Eden launched its own quality coffee brand, Edenissimo, which is available in coffee capsules and fresh coffee beans formats.