Agua de Solares
Agua de Solares advertisements illustrated by Enrique Gil Guerra under the pen name "Nike"; the archive holds 1 piece.
1828 – present
Agua de Solares dates from 1828, when the Fuencaliente spring in the Cantabrian town of Solares was declared of public utility; the medicinal properties of its waters already appeared in the Catastro de Ensenada of 1753. In the early 1970s the brand reached a 50 % share of the Spanish bottled mineral water market, selling 100 million bottles in 1971. The 1977 crisis, triggered by the detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in several batches and the resulting fine of ten million pesetas, brought its sales down to 12 million bottles in 1983. In 2024 Aquadeus (Grupo Fuertes / Grupo Alma) acquired the company, making it its third bottling plant, with a capacity of 40 litres per second.
Sources: Agua de Solares — Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libreAquadeus adquiere la compañía de agua mineral Solares — AquadeusEl liderazgo de Agua de Solares — Blog Ferreira Dapía
