Over in Tameside the Tweed Brewing Company is marking the occasion in a unique way, by producing 100 exclusive Small Business Saturday bottle labels which will then be applied to bottles and sent out to each one of the Small Business Saturday 100 finalists.
One company he thinks is succeeding is Coca-Cola Amatil, an Australian business that bottles Coca-Cola and other beverages.
If buyers are having a hard time breaking into the spa business, water bottling has been little easier.
She was part of a first wave of women to join Parliament, serving from 2005 to 2010, and started a business selling bottled fruit juices.
After shedding its restaurant business and bottling operations, Pepsi is on track to reliably increasing earnings, many analysts say, particularly because the majority of those earnings are generated by Frito-Lay, the snack-food behemoth.
Drinking mineral water, carbonated or not, has become so popular that a considerable business of bottling and exporting has grown up on both sides of the Atlantic; it has a practical importance in aiding digestion that is much greater than one would expect from its small mineral content.
The company created Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) that year and got into the business of bottling its products itself.
"We were looking to demonstrate, in a poetic manner, the amount of plastic waste that is consumed daily, in addition to focusing attention on the big business of bottling water, which leads to very serious problems in developing countries". .
"In addition to focusing attention on the big business of bottling water, which leads to very serious problems in developing countries, whose citizens have watched as their aquifers have been privatized with impunity for the exclusive enrichment of large business owners and ruling classes without scruples".
Michael Urquhart, joint managing director of Gordon & MacPhail – whose independent bottling business, which has matured and bottled whisky from some 70 distillers for more than a century, saw exports soar by nearly 60% last year – says increased affluence is obviously a driver.
