Fiji Water wishes to manage Yaqara Pastoral Company Limited

The Natural Waters of Fiji, manufacturers of bottled Fiji Water which contributes 30% to Fiji’s total exports wishes to manage the Yaqara Pastoral Company Limited.

The company has submitted three proposals to the interim Government for Yaqara Pastoral Company Limited.

However, the Government has called for Expressions of Interest from other companies.

Yaqara Pastoral Company Limited is a company that has been delisted from the South Pacific Stock Exchange, effective from 1 August, 2008. The company produces and supplies beef and engages in cattle breeding. The company also supplies other meat products including those from sheep and goats and also produces horticultural crops.

Yaqara Pastoral Company Limited made a net loss after tax of F$1.1 million for its latest financial year ended 31 March 2008.

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Fiji Water acquires Neptune Shipping

Natural Waters of Viti, the producers of the Fiji Water brand, have acquired Neptune Shipping company. The acquisition is part of the company's plans to continue to meet the global demand for its products and builds upon its already substantial presence in the region.

Neptune Shipping was established in 1997 to provide liner and bulk shipping services and agency functions in trades between Fiji, Australia and New Zealand.

Fiji Water demand grows

The demand for "FIJI Water", bottled and marketed by Natural Waters of Viti Limited, keeps growing. The company's biggest challenge is to meet the demand.

The company has continued to make significant investment in Fiji and will be opening its third line of production at its Yaqara facility shortly.

"FIJI Water" is bottled at source from an artesian well in the Yaqara range in the Nakauvadra mountains in the Ra Province on the Island of Viti Levu in Fiji.

The company, Natural Waters of Viti Limited, was first set up in 1996 and started its export of FIJI Water in 1997. It currently has about 200 employees.

FIJI Water is sold at a "premium price" through retail outlets in the USA, Canada, France, Australia, UK and other countries.

There are other areas of Fiji which have more better tasting water than that marketed as FIJI Water but whose water have not been bottled. Some of the landowners on whose land the water sources are have decided to hold back on their resource given the (over) supply in the market.

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