Mineral Water in Tunisia

The mineral water in Tunisia , conditioned for the Drink, represent a particularly dynamic economic sector.

Indeed, consumption - primarily local because the share of the Exportation is lower than 1% - exploded in ten years passing of a production of 110 million bottles in 1995 to 450 million in 2006. In parallel, the sector was liberalized in a score of years passing from three marks (Safia, Ain Oktor and Ain Garci) held by a single public company - the Company of the thermal spas and mineral water (SOSTEM) - with about fifteen marks which produce 260.000 bottles per hour. This diversity of the offer (natural mineral water and water of table) should not mask the crushing weight of the leader, the refrigerating Société and brewery of Tunis (SFBT), which holds 70% of market shares after having in particular repurchased the SOSTEM in 2003.

The mineral water is sold by companies having obtained a ministerial approval (in accordance with the law of 1993) and is controlled by the Office of Tunisian hydrotherapy. The selling price includes/understands a tax of 18% known as “tax of packing”. The companies manage installations of collecting of water ( source or Forage) and generally of the factories of conditioning.

Mineral water marks

Ain Garci : it is the senior of gas natural mineral water. Taken in a éponyme source located at 13 kilometers in the west of Enfidha, it is used in therapeutic cure thanks to its bicarbonated, sodic and carbogazeuse composition. Conditioned in bottles out of glass, it belongs to the SOSTEM.
Ain Oktor : it is the oldest still marketed mark since it is in 1904 that this water is for the first taken time of the éponyme source located close to the thermal spa of Korbous. It belongs to the SOSTEM.
Aqualine : it is the last of mineral water to be marketed by a company partner of the group Danone.
Bulla Régia : it is a water of table taken in the source of Ain Ghenaa (3 kilometers of Bulla Regia). It uses since 1999 the name of this famous Tunisian archeological site after having carried that of the company which markets it (Zullel).
Crystal : it is a natural mineral water taken thanks to the drilling of Ain Sokra located at 22 kilometers in the south-east of Siliana. It is marketed since 1996 by company SEEMAS.
Crystalline
Fourat : it is a natural mineral water taken in the source of Ksar Lemsa, close to Oueslatia in the Gouvernorat of Kairouan, in the main forest of Djebel Bargou. It is marketed since 2003 by a company tuniso-Belgian: the new Company of mineral water (SONEM).
Hayet : it is a natural mineral water taken in the ground water of Baten El Ghazel, close to Jilma, in the Gouvernorat of Sidi Bouzid. It is marketed since 1996 by the Company freedom of exploitation of mineral water.
Jannet : it is a natural mineral water taken close to Haffouz (Gouvernorat of Kairouan). It is marketed since 2002 by the mineral water production company SOPREM. This company is the first to propose bottles of two liters.
Jektiss : it is a taken natural mineral water with Koutine (Gouvernorat of Médenine).
Hand : it is a natural mineral water taken in a ground water close to Tataouine. It is marketed by company SICEM.
Marwa : it is a taken natural mineral water with Kef Ghrab, close to Joumine, in the Gouvernorat of Bizerte. It is marketed since 1993 by the Marwa company which is in partnership with the SFBT.
Melliti : it is a natural mineral water taken in the source of Ain El Beidha (10 kilometers in the North-West of Téboursouk). It is marketed by the SOSTEM.
Sabrine : it is a taken natural mineral water with Oued Kharroub, close to Chebika, in the Gouvernorat of Kairouan. It is marketed since 1991 by the Development company of the mineral water (SEEM) which widened its product range by producing since 2004 an aerated water: The Semi-sparkling one. Out of plain water, Sabrine is leader of the market and was pionnière in the adoption of conditioning PVC then FART in 1998.
Safia : it is the Tunisian historical plain water mark. It is produced on the level of two sources: Ain Mizeb close to the town of El Ksour (Governorship of Kef) and Ain Ksiba (15 kilometers further).

External bonds

Presentation of Tunisian mineral water (Office of hydrotherapy)
Presentation of the communication campaigns of principal mineral water

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