ARTE, the beautiful new bottle from Fonte Solé, received the ‘Highly Commended’ award in the Best Bottle in Glass category at the 2008 Water Innovation Awards held in Wiesbaden, Germany on September 23rd.

An international panel of judges drawn from industry leaders and retail buyers reviewed more than 200 entries from forty countries.

Stephen Goodchild says “Solé ARTE was launched to meet the demand from five-star hotels and fine restaurants for a beautiful and truly differentiated water presentation to offer their guests.  With the support of our excellent distributor network, Solé ARTE has proven to be a critical success and we are delighted to be recognized with this Award from our peers in the Global Bottled Water industry.”

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From their April 08 magazine…

“Fonte Solé is a modern, organized business facing daily the strong competition of large multinationals while retaining its individualism and establishing itself in the niche market of high quality water. 

The producer of glass containers for Fonte Solé is Saint-Gobain Vetri, an old partner that tends to the business needs and is able to transform ideas into bottles.  This is the case of Arte: the latest line of Solé water intended for a demanding and refined public proposed in sophisticated 750 ml containers paying homage to one of nature’s greatest artistic expressions, water.

Acqua Solé Arte therefore developed out of a love for all things beautiful, unique and innovative, not always easy to attain: values translated in a difficult project made possible by Saint-Gobain Vetri’s own technological and industrial resources.

The container’s shape is like a ray of sunlight shining through clouds personified by a white, transparent and bright glass bottle.

Featuring a round base, tapered and faceted and irregularly octagonal, this unusual and slender container is perfect for the smartest of dinner tables in Italy and overseas.  And you can tell, at first glance, that it contains natural mineral water produced and served with finesse.”

A great feature on Sole from Water Innovation - the bottled water industry’s trade magazine.

http://water.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=622

Sole donated its new contemporary bottled water, Arte, to help raise funds for the Samantha Dickinson Brain Tumour Trust. A glittering Ball was held at the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane in November.

Headed by inspirational  founder, Jamie Oliver, the Fifteen Foundation celebrated its five year anniversary at the October Graduation Party for its fifth year apprentices. Many former apprentices also attended the celebration as testament to the success of this remarkable programme.Sole mineral water is proud to have been involved with Fifteen since its inception and continues its relationship with Fifteen both in the original London restaurant and also in Melbourne, Australia.

Sole Arte, the new contemporary Italian water, was featured at the Chef’s demonstration stage over this three day event in October 2007. Both the Chefs and their audiences were wowed by the clean elegant lines of the beautiful bottle and many enquiries were received at the Sole exhibition stand.