Owala® FreeSip® Bottle Honored With Red Dot Design Award
by Owala Team
Updated: July 8, 2025
Lehi, UT (July 8, 2025) – Owala®, the market-leading and viral water bottle brand, was honored with a Red Dot Design Award for the Owala® FreeSip® bottle, the Owala® brand’s flagship product. This highly-regarded international recognition of quality is awarded to products that exhibit outstanding design.
The prestigious Red Dot honor joins a growing list of accolades for the Owala FreeSip bottle, which was previously named to TIME’s Best Inventions, has earned over 115,000 five-star customer reviews, and has helped the brand grow a loyal and loving fan base around the globe.
“The success the Owala FreeSip bottle has achieved is the result of several years of engineering work to combine the innovative FreeSip Spout with an iconic industrial design, and all the while ensure a seamless user experience and leakproof functionality,” said Jim Colby, Senior Vice President of Product Development at Trove Brands, parent company to Owala. “The Red Dot award is well known among the engineering community. For the product development team at Trove to earn this award is a testament to their skill set, passion, and deep attention to detail.”
The unique and patented FreeSip® Spout is indeed a standout feature of the Owala FreeSip bottle, providing the user with the choice to sip from an integrated straw or swig from a wide-mouth opening, with an effortless transition between the two.
The insulated bottle also boasts an easy, push-button open lid and an integrated carry loop that doubles as a lock, rendering it leak proof. The combination of user-focused features, plus the ever-evolving Owala color and pattern palette, which includes an array of bolds and brights as well as numerous neutrals and monochromes, has helped the FreeSip bottle’s popularity reach astounding heights.
Red Dot award winners were honored at the Red Dot Gala on July 8 in Essen, Germany, with a festive evening celebrating excellence in design. The Owala FreeSip bottle, along with fellow Red Dot Product Design 2025 recipients, will be featured in the Red Dot Design Yearbook and is showcased online in the Red Dot winners’ circle.
About Trove Brands
Trove Brands is a privately-held house of brands including BlenderBottle®, Owala®, Whiskware®, and EcoBrite®. The company’s patented and best-selling products are designed to simplify and improve everyday life with unexpected innovation, incomparable quality, and aspirational style. Trove Brands’ products are sold in over 100,000 retail locations across 100+ countries, including Amazon.com. Learn more at the Trove Brands official website.
Media Contact
Holly Bennett
hbennett@trovebrands.com
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