Tips for a Better Custom Label

When you send us the artwork for the labels on your customized bottled water, there are some ways to ensure that the final result looks the way you want it to. Here are some tips for a better customized water bottle:

Spend time on your design. If you are creating your own design with computer software or a web-based design tool, spend an appropriate amount of time and make sure you are completely satisfied with your creation. Creating the labels for your customized bottled water is an investment in your event, and that warrants your time and attention.

High resolution images only. One of the biggest mistakes people make when creating any design – whether the design is for a website, a t-shirt or a customized water bottle label – is submitting low resolution or poor quality images. Doing this will almost surely result in an outcome you aren’t happy with: a blurry, grainy or washed-out photo. If you want to use a photo on your label, choose or create a high resolution image for your design. If your camera doesn’t have a high resolution setting, borrow one or hire a professional photographer to shoot your image.

Check it, and check it again. It’s always best to do a quality check on something you write, and that includes a customized water bottle label. Ask someone who knows their stuff when it comes to spelling and grammar to make sure the text on your label is error free. There’s nothing worse than paying for a shipment of items that contain errors, so do a quality check on you customized bottled water label to make sure that doesn’t happen to you.

These are simple steps you can take to ensure a better label design. Doing these things can help your recipients enjoy their customized bottled water even more.

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Could Custom Water Bottles Work for Your Business?

We’ve talked at length about how bottled water with a private label is a great promotional tool for hospitality businesses and fitness centers, as well as for certain food service establishments and retail stores. However, what if you like the idea of handing out or selling custom water bottles to your prospects and customers – but your business is not in any of these categories? That’s okay! Some of our most loyal customers happen to be in other business categories, including:

Real estate – Realtors® and other real estate agents place orders often, because they know that handing out bottled water with a private label – say, the logo of their agency – is a great promotional tool. People tend remember the name of the agent who helped them better when they have a tangible, usable item to take home.

Education – Both non-profit and for-profit schools, including public and private universities, have ordered shipments of custom water bottles to sell in their dining facilities or give out during special events. The feedback we have received is that they are a great outreach tool to students!

Finance – Banks are always on the hunt for new loyalty incentives to hand out to account holders. Having bottled water with a private label sitting in an ice-filled tub on a hot day is a great move for any bank that wants to improve customer loyalty and appreciation. We have heard great things from banks that have tried this, especially in areas where warm weather is year round.

These are just a few of the industries that can really benefit from having custom water bottles on hand, whether they want to give them out or sell them for a small profit. If you have any questions regarding these options, contact Riviera Beverages today at (714) 895-5169, or email us at info@rivierabeverages.com. We will be glad to answer your questions and explain the ordering process to you.

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When Do Sports Teams Need Labeled Bottled Water?

There are a wide variety of sports organizations that can benefit from their own private label bottled water. Here are the most prominent examples:

Major league teams - NFL, MLB and NBA teams are just a few examples of nationally recognized sports organizations that order bottled water with their own logos on them. This is especially a good move in regions where the team is a culture unto itself. Sometimes, the team actually participates in our distributor program and resells cases of water to local businesses, so they can share in the profits.

Local teams - Local minor league teams can do this too; for example, local minor league baseball or hockey teams may want to distribute to businesses that will sell water bottles with the team logo on them. It’s also an outstanding program for high school and college teams, because the schools can generate much-needed revenue this way. They may also want to sell the bottles at their concession stands; bottled water with the school’s logo on it is a great alternative to ordinary bottled water!

Youth leagues - City leagues, private Little League teams and other youth sports organizations can do great things with private label bottled water. Each team can have their own labels, or there can be a single label for the league. Our distributor program allows organizations to pay lower prices for our high quality, labeled water bottles so that they can resell them for profit. It’s an excellent fundraising tool for leagues, especially when they are sold at the concession stand.

These are just some of the incredible opportunities for sports teams who take advantage of our distributor program. To learn more, contact Riviera Beverages today; we will be glad to answer your questions before you place your first order!

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Wedding Water Bottles: Making Sure They’re a Hit with Everyone

If you decide to order our personalized water bottles for weddings, you’ll be in need of some tips for making this favor a hit with everyone; that includes your guests and the venue where your event is being held. Here are some ways you can ensure that the personalized bottled water goes over great at your wedding, both during and after.

First, make sure your guests know it’s there. You’ve made a small investment in this favor, and you want to make sure it gets used. No couple wants to be stuck with tons of their own wedding favors afterward, so make sure your guests are fully aware of the personalized bottled water you have ordered for your wedding. If the bottles are sitting out in tubs so that guests can take one, place a large sign next to the tubs; they can say, “Please, take one,” or they can simply say “Water.” Signs are one of the biggest wedding trends going today, so your guests will probably expect to see a few of them around your venue.

Next, you want to make sure the bottles are something the venue welcomes – not just during your wedding, but after. For example, if too many bottles are left behind outdoors at the venue, the management may not allow couples to bring in personalized bottled water for future wedding events. To make sure this doesn’t happen, it may be a good idea to have a person assigned the task of staying behind a few moments after the ceremony or cocktail hour to clean up any bottles that are left behind. This may also prevent you from being charged any unexpected fees from the venue later.

We want our personalized water bottles for weddings to have a great reputation with guests and venues alike. Use these tips to make sure these favors are a hit with everyone, so you can feel good about providing them!

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Can Private Bottled Water be Resold?

Yes, it can! Although we spend a great deal of time talking about the benefits of using our labeled bottled water as a promotional item or hospitality tool, we want you to know that it can also be resold if you are a business that is permitted to engage in resale activities. In fact, that’s exactly why we offer special pricing just for distributors. Here are some business models for which reselling our private bottled water could be appropriate:

• Hotels, casinos and resorts
• Gyms and other fitness facilities
• High end supermarkets
• Cafés and bakeries

These are just a few of the businesses where it would be completely acceptable to sell your own private bottled water, as opposed to giving it away as a promotional tool. It’s a great way to supplement your existing revenue, and in a sense, you’re still using the bottles as promotional tools because some people are bound to reuse them.
But what should you do if you have concerns about the sales potential of the product? We have an easy solution that makes sense for every business: Just make your first order a small one. At Riviera Beverages, we allow you to make low minimum orders; after all, we want you to have a great experience no matter how many you are able to sell. If you sell them quickly, you can order another shipment; it’s no problem, because there is no reorder charge applied! If your business needs an additional revenue stream, place a small order for some private bottled water with your own custom labels that you can sell to your customers. You never know what could happen; it just might be a hit!

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Why We're the Better Private Label Water Bottlers!

If you have ever searched for customized bottled water before, you may be aware that we at Riviera Beverages are not the only private label water bottlers out there. However, we do offer some very distinct advantages that we want to make consumers aware of. Here are just a few of the most important:

Our bottles are BPA free. In a world where the medical risks of BPA exposure from plastics and resins is one of the top concerns among parents – and really, consumers in general – that’s an important feature that we can guarantee you. Riviera Beverages only uses BPA free plastic water bottles, no matter which of our many bottle designs you choose.

Our water is FDA approved. If you have read news reports that are designed to scare you into believing bottled water isn’t safe, you can rest assured that ours is. Our water products are FDA approved, as is our bottling facility. In fact, our customized bottled water is manufactured with standards that not only ensure consumer safety; they also improve the taste and quality of the water.

Our labels can be completely customized. Some websites offer you the opportunity to choose what they call “custom” labels from a template; that is not the case here. Riviera Beverages allows you to upload your own artwork, unless you prefer to work alongside us on your customized bottled water labels. Whatever event you are purchasing the personalized bottles for, it’s yours – and that’s why you should have the final say in how the bottle is labeled! At Riviera Beverages, we are proud to be private label water bottlers who offer customers something they can’t get anywhere else. Remember, quantity and quality are very different things; there may be other companies out there who can offer you customized water bottles, but many of them fall short of the quality that we offer here. Ask us for details by calling us at (714) 895-5169; we will be glad to speak with you!

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Why Our Water Bottles are BPA Free

For those who are concerned about the harmful effects of BPA, it will come as a relief that our customized water bottles are 100% BPA free. Here are the reasons that consumers, particularly parents and pregnant women, may find that to be an advantage of our products.

For those who are not familiar with BPA, it is the abbreviation for the industrial chemical bisphenol A. 50 years ago, no one was concerned about this ingredient that was found in many polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins – but now, we know that when BPA is used in food and beverage containers, it can become a serious health risk to some consumers.

Because it has been an ingredient in the plastic used for children’s cups, food storage containers and plastic water bottles, BPA is something that many families could possibly be exposed to. BPA exposure has been known to be a cause of various brain and behavior problems in infants and children, and it has also been linked to certain prostate gland problems.

BPA is not found in quite as many products as it used to be, but it is still around – so it’s critical to make sure that any plastics your family purchases, particularly those that contain your food and beverages, are BPA free. Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that BPA is safe at the very low levels, it is best to purchase products that don’t contain any of it at all. Because our customized water bottles are completely BPA free, they are ideal to be the personalized favors you hand out at:

• Weddings

• Baby showers

• Family reunions

• School events

• Charity events

These are events that are likely to have children and pregnant women present, and with our customized water bottles, there is no cause for concern about BPA. Take a moment to view more information about the purity of our product; we believe you will be impressed.

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Keeping Hospitality Guests Hydrated is Easy!

When we say our custom water bottles are perfect for hospitality venues, we don’t just mean hotels. Of course, they are perfect for any hotel business – after all, who wouldn’t love to have access to a complimentary bottle of personalized water in their hotel room? But remember, there are many other hospitality venues that can benefit from our private label water as well. Think about it: Wouldn’t you love to be handed a cold bottle of water with a custom label the next time you visit these types of businesses?

• Golf courses

• Wineries

• Country clubs

• All inclusive vacation resorts

• Extended stay villa communities

Of course you would! If you are in ownership or management at any of these types of businesses, that alone should have you thinking about trying custom water bottles out as a hospitality gesture. Here is an anecdote that illustrates the demand perfectly: Recently, one of our employees came back from a trip to a winery/golf course resort with her spouse. They wined, dined and golfed in the hot July sun. Sounds fun, doesn’t it? It also sounds risky. “It was great,” she said, “but it would have been even better if they had done more to keep us hydrated. We had to hike to the nearest building every time we got thirsty.”

It makes sense, doesn’t it? On a hot summer day of golfing and wine tasting, guests need to have bottled water at the ready. When they’re provided with private label water that features the facility’s logo, they are much more than hydrated; they’re also impressed! For the hospitality business, that’s like killing two birds with one stone - and that's what makes our custom water bottles the perfect guest retention tool for hospitality facilities. They keep guests hydrated, happy and healthier both during and after their stay – and increase the chances of you earning their repeat business.

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It’s All About the Bottle

That’s what we’re noticing these days, with so many of our private label water bottle customers placing a big focus on bottle design when they contact us. Some of the most common questions regarding bottle design for custom water bottles are:

Q: How many water bottle styles do you have?

A: Great question! At present, we have standard shape, bullet shape and custom design options.

Q: Can I choose from different water bottle sizes?

A: Absolutely. Our standard style is available in 8 oz., 12 oz., 16.9 oz., 20 oz., 23.7 oz. and even 33.8 oz., while our bullet style is available in 12 oz., 16.9 oz. and 33.8 oz.

Q: Is there only one type of water available?

A: Believe it or not, no! We have lots of different water varieties for you to choose from, including spring water, mineral water, vitamin enhanced water, alkaline water, de-ionized water – and yes, flavored water! Any of these can be used to fill the bottles of your choice.

Q: How does the label design process work?

A: If you don’t have a design, we can create a custom one based on your specifications. If you do have a design already, send it to us and we will print it on your custom water bottle labels. More information on our accepted formats, fonts and images is available here.

Q: Are your bottles environmentally friendly?

A: Definitely. If your event or organization is designed to promote a commitment to environmental concerns, you will be happy to hear that each customized water bottle is made from recycled polyethylene terephtalate (rPET) and polyethylene terephtalate (PET) lightweight 50% less plastic. This means that the customized bottled water you provide is always encapsulated in clean, BPA free plastic. Unlike other private label water bottle companies, Riviera Beverages is environmentally responsible throughout the entire chain of production.

Hopefully, that answers any questions you may have about our custom water bottles. To learn more, contact us and we will be glad to help you.

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Saving You Money on Private Label Water Bottles

When ordering for any event, be it business or personal, it’s important to consider how much your water bottles are going to cost per person. With that in mind, here are some ways we make our private label water as cost effective as possible.

First, we allow you to design your own labels. We can certainly create a custom label if you like, but we encourage you to submit your own artwork to us if you are looking for a small budget solution. If you are ordering on behalf of a company and they have an art department, assign them the task of designing the custom bottle labels for your order. If you are ordering for a personal event, you can keep all the fun for yourself; designing your own labels can be a great creative outlet!

Next, we allow low minimum orders. This is a wonderful advantage for anyone who is ordering for a small event where there will only be a limited number of people in attendance. After all, there’s no reason why you should be forced to order hundreds of private label water bottles if all you really need is a few dozen. Allowing customers to make low minimum orders is another great way we can help you save.

Finally, we can help you save money by offering you different sizes. When you order bottled water with a private label, you can choose from sizes ranging from:

• 8 oz.
• 12 oz.
• 16.9 oz.
• 20 oz.
• 23.7 oz.
• 33.8 oz.

With us, you get to decide how much water your guests will need; this helps you manage costs much more effectively. As you can see, there are many different ways Riviera Beverages can help you save money on water with custom bottle labels. If you have any questions about an order before placing it, please don’t hesitate to ask us on Facebook or Twitter!

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Labeled Bottled Water at Your Summer Event

Let’s be honest: Whether or not your water bottles feature custom labels, they are absolutely necessary for the success of any summertime event. People need clean, filtered water in order to stay refreshed and hydrated; it’s just a fact of life. But if you can get labeled bottled water that features a branded design you created yourself, that’s even better – and it will have people talking about your event for months (or even years) to come! Here are some examples of summer events that go perfectly with customized, private label water bottles.

Fundraisers: If your organization holds its annual charity event in the summer, that’s the perfect opportunity to help your benefactors feel like they’re part of an exclusive group with a completely branded event. Place a cold bottle of water with your group’s logo and the date of the event at every table; it’s sure to have all your donors impressed. Who knows? They may give even more than planned!

Family reunions: When dozens of family members are scattered across the country, the annual reunion is the time to help everyone feel more connected – and one way to do that is with customized items featuring the family name. So in addition to doing this with printed t-shirts, have buckets of labeled bottled water available the whole weekend. Everyone needs the water anyways, and they will appreciate that you went the extra mile to personalize the bottles with (for example), “Smith Family Reunion – August 1, 2014.” A few bottles will probably go home as souvenirs, too!

Company picnics: In the modern business world, creating a company culture is heavily encouraged. Business experts are constantly urging corporations to help their employees feel like part of something larger than themselves, in order to accomplish company objectives. One way you can encourage employee loyalty is to personalize items that staff members use, both in and out of the office. So at the annual company picnic this summer, why not customize the labeled bottled water you provide with the name and date of the event? It’s bound to be a hit with everyone.

These are just a few of the summer events that labeled bottled water will perfectly complement. If you have any more ideas, let us know on Facebook, Twitter or Google+. We would love to hear from you!

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Water Bottles with Custom Labels: How to Give them Away at Trade Shows

If you are in need of a new promotional item for trade shows, we’re going to tell you why custom label water bottles are the perfect solution – and then, we’re going to tell you exactly who you need to give them to at your next trade show. First, the “why.” This may come as a surprise, but there is a bonafide trade show industry, and that industry spends millions of dollars a year on researching what promotional tactics work best for trade show exhibitors.

Time after time, the researchers conclude that what makes the best impression on trade show attendees is swag (that’s slang for giveaways). But it can’t just be any giveaway items; these items have to be useful, memorable and aligned with the brands that are handing them out. When you take those factors into consideration, what better trade show swag is there than water bottles with custom labels?

Now, remember: You don’t want to just hand these out to everyone. Trade show experts suggest reserving your trade show giveaway items for the following groups:

• Your existing clients

• New contacts who may become prospects

• Ongoing prospects you are seriously pursuing

• Companies you would like to partner with on specific projects

For the more important people on these lists, consider including custom label water bottles with other items such as wearables, drinkware, tote bags, etc. In fact, you can put all of these items into a tote bag. Why not?

Now, a word to the wise: It’s a good idea to keep your bottles cold until you hand them to your recipients. Consider bringing along a mini-refrigerator to the trade show, and if that isn’t an option, you could certainly pre-refrigerate your bottles the night before. Water bottles with custom labels are the ideal trade show giveaway! Now that you know, you can get started on uploading your artwork submissions so that we can get your labels printed, and your bottles labeled, in time for the next trade show.

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Using Customized Water Bottles as Promotional Tools

Businesses are always on the lookout for the hottest new promotional items to give away to new customers and prospects, but many of them are overlooking one of the simplest, most effective promotional giveaway items there is: the customized water bottle. Sure, everyone knows water bottles are simple – but how do we know they’re effective? Because market research tells us so.

In 2013, the American Marketing Association conducted a survey that revealed how much consumers appreciate receiving a drinkware item from a business as a promotional tool. Believe it or not, drinkware actually took 19% of the market share for the most effective promotional product tools.
That means it beat out more “traditional” promotional items like baseball caps, pens, magnets and trinkets.

The only promotional item that beat out drinkware was the t-shirt – but let’s face it, everyone knows the t-shirt is hard to beat (even though most people won’t even wear a t-shirt they receive from a business). At least water bottles are consumable! Take note: This survey was not conducted among marketers. Instead, it was sent out to real consumers who receive promotional products from businesses – the exact audience your business needs to reach.

Are customized water bottles considered drinkware? You bet they are, and they are far more practical and cost-effective drinkware items to hand to clients and prospects. After all, most businesses don’t have the budget to have a high end coffee mug printed up for every person who walks in their door. But a customized water bottle? That’s easy, and it makes just as powerful an impression – especially if you hand it to them on a hot summer day! Handing a cold bottle of water with your business logo on it: For the prospect or new client who new comes into the office to meet with you, there’s nothing more impressive – and we have the data to back it up.

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Private Label Water for Weddings

When it comes to weddings, personalization is the name of the game these days. That’s why our private labeled water is being ordered for wedding events across the country. With June being the most popular month of the year for weddings, what better time to talk up the great benefits of ordering private label water bottles for you’re the wedding you’re planning? Here are some ideas for times to pass out your personalized wedding water bottles:

The Cocktail Hour

If your wedding has a cocktail hour, it’s important to have enough water on hand for guests who either 1.) don’t drink alcohol, or 2.) have a tendency to drink too much alcohol. The guests who have wine, beer and cocktails will need water to keep themselves hydrated and prevent any unwanted scenarios from occurring anyway – so why not make the water bottles you give them a memento of the event?

The Reception

Of course, everyone will want to have water at the table when dinner is served. Rather than placing a pitcher in the center of the table (this can be annoying to guests who don’t know each other well and don’t want to pass the pitcher around), just give them your private label water bottles instead. Everyone will appreciate that you took an extra step to make them comfortable!

The Arrival

That’s right: We’re talking about before the ceremony! If your wedding is on a hot summer day, this gesture will be appreciated by everyone. As long as it is permissible with your venue, why not? If the wedding is outdoors, then it is almost guaranteed to be allowed – and guests will want water even more outdoors, anyway! No matter when you choose to pass out the private labeled water bottles at your wedding, you can choose a design that personalizes them to reflect you, your fiancé and your style. This is one wedding favor everyone can use!

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Why should I customize bottles: A different perspective

Power of an image

“A picture speaks a thousand words” is not just an expression, what we see has an important role in what we think and feel. When we see an image of a baby smiling or a due sprinkled flower what do we feel? A sense of pleasantness, the sensation fills us. Repulsion ensues when gazing upon an unpleasant scene which garners an emotional response.

Make them feel Special

Everyone likes to be treated specially, it may be just a simple gesture but the ramifications may be substantial.  A simple compliment to a new acquaintance you meet makes an impression and stands out from the crowd, when someone feels a pleasantness of emotion, it tends to register. The next time, identification is instant. Similarly, a personalized water bottle may be a simple gesture but the visual identification stands out as the brand and the individual stand out.

The physiological effect

We see countless images on a day to day basis, how many actually creates an impression, very few, why? They are iterations of things we’ve already seen before, during special occasions and business events; something out of the ordinary catches the eye immediately, seeing a personal brand label or a message on a usual item such as a water bottle.

Effect on emotion

People may forget something they’ve seen but not something they’ve felt. There’s constant bombardment of ads and brands everywhere, to stand out there’s a need to get creative and reach out to people at a personal level. Make a statement with personalized water bottles check out designs now at www.rivierabeverages.com

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Recycle, for a Better Future

As a culture, we are more environmentally aware than ever - but sometimes, we wonder if we're doing enough. Truth be told, we can't do everything - but we can recycle. Three ways to recycle in your every day life include:

• Use the recycling bin at public establishments (Starbucks has one - use it!)

• Use your city-issued recycling bin at home for plastics, glass bottles and paper products

• Buy from companies that practice environmental responsibility

One such company is Riviera Beverages, of course! We use recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which are widely known to be environmentally responsible bottling materials. In fact, using recycled rPET and PET equals lightweight bottles with 50% less plastic than the standard water bottle. That's remarkable! If the event you want customized water bottles for is an environmentally conscious corporate or charity event - or, you want personalized water bottles for a green wedding - then what better supplier to choose than Riviera Beverages? We offer customization and environmental responsibility; it's a win-win!

Buy customized, environment friendly water bottles at www.rivierabeverages.com - or, feel free to contact us with your questions!

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What We Do at Riviera Beverages

In the business world, the term “personal branding” is used quite frequently. In short, it means promoting something that is unique and exclusive about the individual or company. Branding is how today’s businesses make the biggest impression, and at Riviera Beverages, we offer a simple, yet profound way to do this by personalizing water bottles.

Why water bottles? They’re already a necessity when it comes to events and special occasions, so providing your private brand label or a cool message on the bottle is a sure way of getting noticed.

During Special Events

Unique art work or a personal note on water bottles sends a positive message – and make no mistake, it also sends a message of inclusion and a sense of personal connection.

Weddings

During weddings, couples focus on making every little detail special. Extra care is exercised while choosing the menu, so why not let that attention to detail extend to the water? Quality water is something that is taken for granted, but not at Riviera Beverages. Our watering facilities are FDA approved; the mineral water we bottle is of the highest quality standards.

Private Labeled Water

In business, the key to repeat customers is personal initiatives that make the customers believe that they are valuable to the company. Companies can offer labeled water bottles as an incentive, and the impression it creates will be reciprocated by the customer by giving more business.

Environmentally Conscious Events

Galas and conferences are generally focused on a specific issue. A custom label regarding the issue is a powerful way to send across the message to each participant. If it’s an awareness event about the environment, you can print a message on the bottle, “This bottle is made out of recycled plastic,” as Riviera Beverages uses recycled plastic. There are tons of ideas!

For competitive pricing on different bottles and labels, visit www.rivierabeverages.com

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Personalized Water Bottles that Work for Your Event

“Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to drink” may have been the case centuries ago, but not in the present day. Thanks to modern day marketization and the environmental conscientiousness of consumers, water is a sustainable resource that is sold freely.

What is the image that comes to our minds when we think of drinking water? Water bottles, right? Pretty much! Plastic water bottles are our “unsung sidekick” now; for most of us, it has become impossible to imagine our life without water bottles. In fact, it has become expected for event hosts to provide bottled water to guests. If you are hosting an event, you need to provide your guests water anyways – so why not personalize the bottles to leave a lasting impression?

Branding Water

Special occasions such as weddings, charity galas and business events call forth a need for cases upon cases of water bottles; it just makes sense to go that extra mile for a personal touch. You can personalize water bottles with:

• Your brand name, if you are a company

• Your personal names, if you are a bride and groom

• The name of your event, if you are hosting a charity fundraiser

Environmentally Sound

Are you or your organization worried about environmental impact? The good news is, Riviera Beverages uses recycled plastic bottles and quality mineral water on its personalized water bottles.

At Riviera Beverages, we make personalized water bottles that work for your event. Contact us today to learn more!

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