Investment Projects, Business Armenia Spring and Mineral Water Production | Page 10

more during summer season. Although
few companies have already entered in
the bottling of safe potable water and
mineralized water, but still a huge gap is
there in between demand and supply in
all countries.
The product is widely accepted in
offices, restaurants, railway stations,
Importers
Hong Kong, China
United States of America
Russian Federation
Canada
airport, bus stands, hospitals and to
some extent even in rich house-holds. So
there is a good scope for establishing the
units for processing and bottling plain
and mineralized drinking water in
different parts of the country.
Leading countries in import and export
of bottled water are the following:
(000 USD)
Imported
value in 2016
611,284
595,922
80,606
76,651
United Arab Emirates 53,297
Oman 39,005
25,685
18,431
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
According to the table we see that the
top importer countries are not far from
Armenia, which means that from the
transportation and logistics perspective,
Armenia has a competitive advantage
over other water export countries.
Moreover, as Armenia is a member of
Exporters
France
China
Italy
Belgium
United States of
America
Germany
Fiji
Georgia
Exported
value in 2016
906,531
673,849
545,263
240,511
132,138
114,590
102,520
79,817
Eurasian Economic Union, there is no
taxes for exporting goods to EEU
member countries, including Russia,
which is one of the target markets of the
project.
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