Mineral Water Industry Research Articles

Role of Gender in Shaping Consumer Responses to Doctor Influencer: Insights into Brand Perceptions and Repurchase Intentions in the Indonesian Mineral Water Industry

This study investigates the effectiveness of influencer marketing, focusing on Dr. Reisa's endorsement of Le Minerale mineral water in Indonesia. It examines how influencer attributes, such as physical attractiveness, familiarity, expertise, success appeal, and congruency, influence consumer attitudes and repurchase intentions. This study examined the impact of influencer marketing on brand perception and consumer behavior, particularly in the digital era. It challenges traditional marketing theories by analyzing the role of various influencer attributes in shaping consumer attitudes. The primary aim of this study is to assess the unique effects of influencer characteristics on brand attitudes and repurchase intentions, with a special focus on the role of gender as a moderating variable in influencer marketing. This study utilized a survey-based approach to evaluate the impact of influencer attributes—physical attractiveness, familiarity, expertise, success appeal, and congruency on consumer attitudes and repurchase intentions toward Le Minerale’s mineral water. Targeting consumers familiar with Dr. Reisa's endorsement, the survey collects quantitative data to analyze how these attributes, along with gender as a moderating variable, influence brand perception in the digital marketing context. This study reveals that Dr. Reisa's physical attractiveness does not significantly impact brand attitudes, challenging traditional marketing beliefs. However, gender has emerged as a key moderator influencing how attractiveness affects brand perception. Contrary to expectations, familiarity with the influencer has no significant effect on brand attitudes, suggesting a shift in digital audience engagement. Notably, expertise, success appeal, and congruency significantly influence brand attitudes, with gender enhancing the impact of congruency. These insights offer a new perspective on influencer marketing, emphasizing the importance of expertise, success appeal, congruency, and gender considerations, thereby providing marketers with strategic guidance in the digital landscape.

Discrimination of bottled mineral water from tap water using a Dip-Type colorimetric paper-based sensor array and chemometrics

Mineral water is a natural water that originated from an underground water table, a well, or a natural spring which is considered microbiologically intact. The revenue from the bottled mineral water industry will be USD 342.40 billion in 2023, and it is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.24 %. Consequently, the discrimination of original bottled mineral water from tap water is an important issue that requires designing sensors for simple and portable identification of these two types of water. In this work, we have developed a Dip-Type colorimetric paper-based sensor array with three organic dyes (Bromothymol Blue, Bromophenol Blue, and Methyl Red) followed by chemometrics’ pattern recognition methods (PCA and LDA) for discrimination of original bottled mineral waters from tap waters based on differences in ion variety and ion quantity. Forty brands of mineral water and twenty-six Tap water samples from different regions of Shiraz and other Iranian cities were analyzed by this sensor array. Moreover, these experiments were performed in two consecutive years to check the versatility of the sensor with seasonal changes in waters. This sensor array was able to discriminate these two water types from each other with an accuracy of > 95 % based on the analysis of 85 water samples.

Analysis of Work System Design to Increase Production Productivity Using the MOST (Maynard Operation Sequence Technique) Method (Case Study of PT. Segar Murni Utama)

PT. Segar Murni Utama is a company engaged in the mineral water industry, especially the production of MOJO TRAS demineralized water. PT. Segar Murni Utama introduces demineralized water products widely and is marketed among the general public to meet the needs of the community. This company prioritizes the quality of demineralized water very well.The purpose of this study was to optimize the production operator time for the cup section and optimize the packing process time for the cup section using the MOST (Maynard Operation Sequence of Technique) method. MOST (Maynard Operation Sequence Tecnique) is one of several ways of timing sub-operations or movements. The BEST method includes basic sort patterns.The results of this study in the cup production operator section showed that the right hand and left hand maps were known to have 8 activities, and 8 activities on the process flow map. The total time is 1410, the normal time (WN) is 0.85 minutes, the standard time (WS) is 0.017 hours, the standard output (OS) is 59 cartons/hour, and the final calculation result is 413 cartons/day. While the results of improvements in the packing cup section obtained the following results: Right hand and left hand maps are known to have 11 activities, and 11 activities on the process flow map. The total time is 2110, the normal time (WN) is 1.26 minutes, the standard time (WS) is 0.023 hours, the standard output (OS) is 43 cartons/hour, and the final calculation result is 301 cartons/day.

Nationwide groundwater recharge evaluation for a sustainable water withdrawal over Italy

Study regionItaly Study focusGroundwater recharge (GR) is the amount of water that infiltrates into the soil recharging aquifers. For Italy, we applied a water balance method for estimating GR, along with other balance components, using gratis/libre open access data and open source software. The results were compared with the data available from the literature on Central Italy, to validate the model and to investigate the variation in the GR, while considering different lithologies. The comparison of the GR results with anthropogenic water withdrawals enabled the evaluation of sustainable water use in Italy. The proposed approach can provide quantitative data in line with the Goal 6 (Targets 6.4 and 6.5) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of United Nations (https://sdgs.un.org). New hydrological insights for the regionIn Italy, the annual averaged GR is ~110 × 109 m3. This estimate may vary for specific years; in 1992 and 2015, the GR exceeded the value by 3% and 27%, respectively. According to these and related estimations, the 1981–2010 average groundwater withdrawals for civil, industrial and agricultural use were estimated to be ~14% of the averaged GR for the same period. In 1992, the withdrawals for the mineral water industry was about 0.01% of the GR and that for civil use was ~10% in 2015. In this study, we observed significant differences in the GR at the regional level, mostly influenced by the precipitation distribution and elevation.

Hydrochemical characteristics and health risk assessment of groundwater in karst areas of southwest China: A case study of Bama, Guangxi

The southwest karst area is considered to have the most vulnerable groundwater environment in China. Groundwater quality is an important factor restricting sustainable economic development. In this study, traditional water chemistry method, water quality index (WQI), and hazard index (HI) were applied to comparatively analyze the hydrochemical characteristics of groundwater and the water quality in the exposed karst region (EKR) and buried karst region (BKR) in Bama, a typical karst area in southwest China. Generally, the main water type was Ca/Mg–HCO3. Due to the predominance of dissolution of carbonate rocks in EKR and silicate rocks in BKR, higher total dissolved solids (TDS), Ca and HCO3− concentrations, and lower H2SiO3 content were detected in groundwater in EKR compared with BKR. As affected by weathering of rocks such as lead-zinc ore, the maximum concentrations of Zn and Sr were 11.23 mg/L and 13.30 mg/L, showing that mineral water resources are widely distributed in Bama. The ion ratios and isotope abundances (δD and δ18O) in groundwater samples indicated stronger evaporation and rock-water interaction in EKR than BKR. Human activities exerted a more significant influence on the water quality in EKR compared to BKR. The mean WQI value also suggested that the groundwater quality was better in BKR (9.56) than EKR (12.17). Although 95.7% of the water samples in the study area were classified as excellent based on their WQI values, 4.3% of the water samples still had significant health risks (HI > 1) due to the high Sb, Zn, As, and Sr concentrations. It is recommended to reduce anthropogenic pollution in EKR and develop a plan for clean production of mineral water industry according to local conditions, which will help the sustainable development of the local economy.

The Role of Industrial Ecology in Maximizing the Value of the Organization

The research aims to show the role of industrial ecology in optimizing the value of mineral water industry organizations in the city of Dohuk through the adoption of a significant problem: What is the role of industrial ecology in optimizing the value of organizations? The researcher has adopted a primary hypothesis in studying the problem. The researcher also measured the reality of the problem and the validity of the hypothesis on the method of opinion questionnaire: a sample of organizations of mineral water industry consisting of 27 individuals using a questionnaire consisting of a set of questions related to the independent research variables (industrial ecology) and the approved variable (the value of the organization). The number of questions related to the independent variable was 10 questions, and 16 questions were related to the dependent variable. Then the researchers used some statistical methods in analyzing the questionnaire. The relationship and impact between industrial ecology and the value of the organization has been settled. The researchers have reached a significant conclusion that there is a positive correlation between the two research variables and that the industrial ecology affects the maximization of the value of mineral water industry organizations in the market of the city of Dohuk (0.114 once).

Simulation-based lean six sigma for Industry 4.0: an action research in the process industry

PurposeThe primary aim of this article is to ascertain the modalities of leveraging Lean Six Sigma (LSS) for Industry 4.0 (I4.0) with special reference to the process industries. Moreover, it intends to determine the applicability of simulation-based LSS in the automation of the mineral water industry, with special emphasis on the robust design of the control system to improve productivity and performance.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts the action research methodology, which is exploratory in nature along with the DMAIC (define-measure-analyze-improve-control) approach to systematically unearth the root causes and to develop robust solutions. The MATLAB simulation software and Minitab statistical software are effectively utilized to draw the inferences.FindingsThe root causes of critical to quality characteristic (CTQ) and variation in purity level of water are addressed through the simulation-based LSS approach. All the process parameters and noise parameters of the reverse osmosis (RO) process are optimized to reduce the errors and to improve the purity of the water. The project shows substantial improvement in the sigma rating from 1.14 to 3.88 due to data-based analysis and actions in the process. Eventually, this assists the management to realize an annual saving of 20% of its production and overhead costs. This study indicates that LSS can be applicable even in the advent of I4.0 by reinforcing the existing approach and embracing data analysis through simulation.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitation of this research is that the inference is drawn based on a single case study confined to process industry automation. Having said that, the methodology deployed, scientific information related to optimization, and technical base established can be generalized.Originality/valueThis article is the first of its kind in establishing the integration of simulation, LSS, and I4.0 with special reference to automation in the process industry. It also delineates the case study in a phase-wise manner to explore the applicability and relevance of LSS with I4.0. The study is archetype in enabling LSS to a new era, and can act as a benchmark document for academicians, researchers, and practitioners for further research and development.

Hazard identification of repetitive truck loading activities in mineral water industry

A good work system is one of the most important factors in the company’s progress, and is the main key to success to increase productivity, company efficiency, and reduce the risk of injury. This research was carried out in a mineral water industry located in North Sumatra. The activity of loading the product to be distributed includes lifting the gallon from the conveyor to the truck. The problem faced by the company was the lack of supervision of the appointment activities, workers complained about the muscles and skeletons due to the Manual Material Handling (MMH), and because workers were also assigned to other work stations. Complaints were identified using the Standard Nordic Questionnaire, Job Strain Index, and Rapid Upper Limb Assessment. The SNQ results show that before doing work in several parts of the body it does not feel sick, but after doing the activity arises a complaint is very sick. This shows that lifting activities are the cause of complaints. The JSI score shows an index value of 12, which means that the activity enters a hazardous job. The results of the RULA score indicate that there must be action now too. To solve this problem, Participatory Ergonomics intervention methods were carried out. PE intervention is carried out on workers who aim to get input on remedial solutions needed by workers and to management for the implementation of selected solutions.

How Company Manage Stakeholder Engagement For Sustainable Tourism Development In Indonesia?

The background of this research is that in the past, the increasing trend of mountain climbing in Indonesia has reportedly raised environmental problems, especially regarding the tremendous volume of rubbish left behind mountain climbers. Plastic waste threatens the Indonesia tourism industry in mountain areas. The government stated that the continuously increasing plastic waste threatens to ruin Indonesia's tourism sector. The mineral water industry is one of the government's primary focuses in its plastic waste reduction. As Indonesia's largest plastic-bottled mineral water brand, Aqua is pledging to remove more plastic from the environment than it uses by 2025. The purpose of the research is to get a descriptive analysis of how the company can manage its stakeholder engagement for reducing plastic waste in Indonesia. This research employed a qualitative narrative analysis method with a case study around Aqua’s efforts for reducing plastic waste in Indonesia and data collected from digital media. The principal results of the research show that Aqua made good collaboration between the Trashbag Community Indonesia, The Ministry of Environment and Forestry, and media journalists on the program “Sapujagad 2017" by removing 5 tons of rubbish from Indonesia's mountains. In conclusion, a successful company must do stakeholder engagement and corporate social responsibility activities for supporting sustainable tourism development in Indonesia.

ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF A MINERAL WATER INDUSTRY: A RISK ANALYSIS STUDY

In order to understand and estimate the risks of failure associated with investing in a mineral water project, it is essential to carry out some types of analysis, such as: (i) economic viability; (ii) risk; (iii) sensitivity and; (iv) scenarios. This study presents a risk analysis approach developed from Software Risk simulator for a mineral water industry in the state of Piauí in the Brazilian Northeast. The data used were obtained through the Economic Utilization Plan (EUP) for the year 2015. It should be noted that the analysis techniques used for the construction of the risk analysis were: tornado analysis, sensitivity analysis, Monte Carlo simulation and analysis of scenario. The realization of this study made it possible to identify the most impacting variables in the cash flow in this mineral water enterprise. Finally, all these analyses are essential to evaluate the risks of failure, investments and economic viability of a mineral water undertaking, being fundamental for the planning and decision making the execution of all the steps carried out in this study

Industry and Spa, harmonious activities

Located in a small area in the northwestern region of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Raposo, in the municipality of Itaperuna, Estância Hidromineral Soledade, operates in the mineral water industry bottling the traditional water Soledade since the years 1948 (DNPM, 2018). Despite directing its main activity in the fluorinated mineral water container (CPRM, 2018a), Parque das Aguas Soledade has 2 water abstractions that have high concentrations of carbon dioxide and total iron that inspire the use as water more appropriate for the use through ingestion at the source and baths. These sources, called Forca Total and Soledade Thermal, have very similar chemical and physical chemical characteristics and are completely different from the Volta Fria Source water used for the commercialization of bottled mineral water. Soledade Thermal (CPRM, 2018b) is rich in manganese (0.245 mg / L), strontium (0.138 mg / L) and total iron (14.3 mg / L). The water of the Forca Total source is the concentration of carbon dioxide (2794 mg / L) and lithium (0.014 mg / L). These characteristics give the Parque de Aguas Soledade ample possibilities for the use of these waters, either as ingestion at the source, baths or even inspiration. Various effects are disclosed by the users themselves. Among them are: breathing facilitation by inspiring the gases emanating from the water of the Forca Total Source, silky skin after immersion of part of the body both in the waters of the Forca Total source and Soledade Thermal, improved bowel functioning, eye relief when bathed in the Total Strength and Soledade Thermal as well as diuretic effect of the Volta Fria Fountain water that is offered at natural or chilled temperature. The beauty of its small Park with its leafy, flowered and well-tended gardens that still allows visitors to digest water, chemical composition varied, every year brings a flow of people who come to travel more than 400 km to enjoy this pleasant environment It's healthy.

Stakeholder Engagement: Keeping Business Legitimate in Austria’s Natural Mineral Water Bottling Industry

Stakeholder maneuvers such as Internet media attacks or consumer boycotts can have devastating effects on companies. By contrary, vital relationships between companies and their stakeholders can be highly beneficial. A review of the existing stakeholder-management literature suggests to engage stakeholders in business activities in a positive manner. However, the types of successful engagement activities differ across industries. The purposes of this article are to develop an explanatory framework based on the literature findings, to introduce stakeholder-engagement literature to a segment of the water sourcing industry, and to unfold industry’s stakeholder-engagement measures. Based on a content analysis of 11 cases, we investigate if and how companies in the natural mineral water bottling industry in Austria inform, communicate, and therefore engage with stakeholders. It became evident that fewer than three of eleven companies published information on sustainability or corporate social responsibility reports, open house days, workshops, or international community activities. Most companies maintained a website for their bottled natural mineral water or communicated quality consciousness. We conclude that most companies in the Austrian mineral water industry could increase their stakeholder-engagement activities to positively respond to challenging business environments.

Formulation and Preparation of Viability Report for Mineral Water Plant Entrepreneurs

Water is crucial to social equity, ecological strength and cultural diversity. Water is also firmly connected with healthiness. Clean and safe drinking water has always been an essential. The tradition and approach of serving drinking water in India has, however, changed quite dramatically during the last decade. Almost a decade ago, the introduction of bottled water or “packaged mineral water” has changed the tradition of serving and consuming drinking water. This has conducted in very strongly the use of polymers or plastics as materials for water storage and distribution. The categories of bottled water in India are packaged natural mineral water and packaged drinking water. The bottled water industry, commonly called the mineral water industry, is a symbol of new life style emerging in India. Project objectives are concerned with defining in a precise manner what the project is expected to achieve and to provide a measure of performance for the project as a whole. The mineral water project work consists of several stages and is closely inter-linked with a logical cycle. It is a sound project with socio-economically described steps like Project identification, Project generation, Project evaluation, Project selection and Project execution. The aim is to achieve minimum expenditure with adequate resources, i.e., maximum revenue with minimum spending within a short span of time. This helps the entrepreneur to estimate the financial requirements to borrow the funds, identification of market demand, physical resourses requirement, and time frame to reach optimal activity to generate the financial surplus. It should contain the details about – product/service, promoter, location, fixed and current assets, working capital, funding, demand and supply, market conditions and others. Moreover, location, economic size, licences, marketing, innovation, incentives and subsidies from the government are the key factors for success of the organisation. However the state government attracts industries by giving incentives in regard to sales tax, octroi duty and subsidised loan. These can accelerate the process of industrial development, spanning rural and urban sectors of the economy.

Finders keepers?: how the law of capture shaped the world oil industry

Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: The Beginnings of the Rule of Capture in the United States 1. Naming and Blaming 2. The Leading Cases and their Legal Background 3. Practice and Belief in the Early Petroleum Industry Part II: Alternatives and Parallels 4. The Mineral Water Industry in France: Protection and Competition 5. Asphalt in Trinidad: Digging your Neighbour's Pitch 6. America's Early Oil Rivals: Petroleum and Property Rights in Galicia, Romania and Russia Part III: Modified Capture: The United States in the 20th Century 7. Correlative Rights and the Beginnings of Conservation 8. Oil and Gas in the Public Lands 9. Conservation Regulation and the Institutionalization of Capture Part IV: Evading Capture? 10. Securing Unified National Control of Petroleum Resources 11. Capture Revivified? Competitive Acreage Allocation by Governments 12. The Cross-Boundary Petroleum Deposit as a Federal and International Issue Part V: Conclusion 13. The Least Worst Property Rule? References

A Study on the Foreign Entry Strategy of Korean Mineral Water Industry

A Study on the Foreign Entry Strategy of Korean Mineral Water Industry

Acqua minerale di Sangemini: the Italian mineral water industry finds a place at the table

Water is an important part of most Italian meals, and Italians are amongst the largest consumers of bottled mineral water in Europe. This article looks at the development of the mineral water industry in Italy from the nineteenth century to present by focusing on the case of Sangemini mineral water from Umbria, Italy. In particular, this article looks at how medical findings became part of a popular hygiene and health discourse that was central to developing a market for mineral water in Italy. Contrary to other international markets, bottled mineral water is still consumed in Italy for its health and nutritional benefits today.

Survival characteristics of pathogens inoculated into bottled mineral water

To assess the risk of contracting a waterborne disease from mineral water and to implement control systems in the mineral water industry, knowledge of the factors affecting the survival and multiplication of non-indigenous bacteria is needed. The survival of Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus and Yersinia enterocolitica inoculated into a Portuguese bottled mineral water was investigated under different conditions: light and dark, different recovery media, presence or absence of autochthonous flora and different ages of water, based on their culturability. For all the pathogenic bacteria higher survival was obtained under dark conditions of storage and when enumeration was performed on non-selective media. Survival of E. coli, Y. enterocolitica and S. typhimurium was longer in fresh water than in old water; results obtained with S. aureus were not conclusive. Survival of E. coli, Y. enterocolitica and S. typhimurium was lower in non-sterile mineral water while the survival of S. aureus was lower in sterilized mineral water.

Improved methods for the enumeration of heterotrophic bacteria in bottled mineral waters

At this time the European Union regulations require that the heterotrophic plate counts (HPC) of mineral waters be assessed at two recovery temperatures: 22°C for 72 h and 37°C for 24 h. This procedure is time consuming and expensive. Development of new rapid methods for microbiological assessment of the microbial flora in the bottled water is an industry-driven need. The objectives of this work were to develop a method for the HPC that utilises only one recovery temperature and one incubation period and evaluate the use of, the LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Bacterial Viability Kit, 5-cyano-2,3-ditotyl tetrazolium chloride (CTC) and impedance methods to enumerate viable bacteria in bottled mineral water. Results showed that incubation at 30°C could be used instead of incubation at 22°C and 37°C. Good correlation exists between counts at 30°C and counts at 22°C ( r>0.90) and all the pathogens important in mineral water analyses grow similarly at 30°C and 37°C during 24 h. It was demonstrated that impedance methods might be useful to the mineral water industry as a rapid indicator of microbiological quality of the water. Results obtained with BacLight and CTC were similar to those obtained with plate counts.

PRESENT STATUS OF THE MINERAL WATER INDUSTRY

PRESENT STATUS OF THE MINERAL WATER INDUSTRY Affiliation Frank L. Rector CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.7.10.868 Published Online: August 30, 2011

The Evolution of Artificial Mineral Waters

THIS little book has been written with the object of showing the origin and development of the mineral water industry, an industry the commercial importance of which maybe to some extent gauged by the author's statement that our annual exports amount to more than one million dozens and that, directly or indirectly, it gives employment to no less than 25,000 persons in London alone. The Evolution of Artificial Mineral Waters. By William Kirkby Pp. x+155. (Manchester: Jewsbury and Brown, 1902.) Price 3s. 6d.