The JANO spring was discovered around 1988 by Gilbert Légère, who was landowner where the spring is located. Less than a decade later, Lorenzo Morais from Caraquet became the landowner. Mr Morais was a businessman and a politician, and like many, he foresaw that water would be an extremely important resource in the 21st century, as petroleum had been in the 20th century.
Along with members of his family, Lorenzo Morais planned and then built a major bottling plant in Village Blanchard, in northern New Brunswick, approximately one kilometre from the spring’s location. At the time, the bottling plant was one of only a few such plants in the Atlantic Provinces.
During the first few years, bottling was mainly done in the 18.9 litre format, and sales were made throughout the northern part of the province, with a network of private distributors. The plant was certified to the highest standards of the industry at the time.
Since 2008 the business has been owned by Bruno St-Onge, a businessman from a Trois-Rivières in Quebec and in 2018 M. René Chiasson became partner in the business along with M St-Onge, where Jano took aim at a worlwide market and has reach target in the end of 2022-early 2023 .
Since acquiring the business, Mr St-Onge has expanded the company – now named 83 PPM Natural Spring Water Inc – to offer its bottled products to most regions of the province. Notable factor, Jano now produce in house their own botlle in formats of 330ml,500 ml, 1 L, 1.5 L and 4 L reducing the risk of cross contamination in this high quality product. They also privately brand water for a large line of private enterprise troughout eastren Canada.
There is also another company which is now part of the 83 PPM Group: Distribution 83 Inc. They distribute bottled water across most regions of New Brunswick the atlantic region, quebec and Ontario in a near future in various formats, bottled water-related products, such as water coolers and drinking cups.