page_title: Ice River Springs
section_title: Purchase of Nestlé bottling operations
hierarchical_section_title: Ice River Springs / Company history / Purchase of Nestlé bottling operations
caption_attribution_description: English: A Nestlé Pure Life bottled water.
context_page_description: Ice River Springs is a private label bottled water producer for retailers and food service operators and manufacturer of the Ice River Green brand of bottled water. The company runs a plastics recycling operation, Blue Mountain Plastics, that takes bottles collected by municipalities and produces food grade recycled PETE for its water bottles. As of 2020, the company was headquartered in Shelburne, Ontario. The recycling facility was also located in Shelburne and its nearest bottling plant was in Feversham, Ontario, 40km away. Its operations included locations across Canada and the Ice River Hialeah Gardens subsidiary in Florida, USA.
  The company is owned and managed by the Gott family. The company planned to expand significantly in 2020 by purchasing the bottling operations of Nestlé Waters Canada.
context_section_description: On 3 July 2020, Nestlé Canada announced that it had agreed to sell its water bottling business to Ice River Springs. The latter would acquire the source and bottling operations of Nestlé Waters North America in the village of Aberfoyle in Puslinch, Ontario and in Hope, British Columbia and a well in Erin, Ontario. (In 2017,  Nestlé was exctracting 190,000 bottles per day of water from the Erin well.) The deal includes a Nestlé owned well in Elora, Ontario which has yet to be tapped.
  The announcement came after the Province of Ontario was planning to allow municipalities greater power to veto new bottling plants and to set new restrictions on removing groundwater. Nestlé, however, stated that its intent to sell the water bottling business was already under consideration in late 2019. Ice River was expected to take over the Nestlé Pure Life brand and the ReadyRefresh delivery service. The deal could not proceed until approval by regulators, expected to happen by the third quarter of 2020.
  The plan to acquire the Nestlé business was part of Ice River's "ambition to expand beyond its private label business for retailers".
caption: Nestlé Pure Life