[12] Salvador “Chiri” Vasallo, a plastics industrialist, founded the company in 1986 in his Ponce, Puerto Rico, farm, where the bottling plant was still located as of 2016.

In 1998, the local Pepsi Puerto Rico bottler was sold to the larger PepsiAmericas bottling corporation.

At the time, Pepsi was preparing to introduce its own bottled water brand, Aquafina, to the market, so it put the Cristalia division up for sale.

David Virginia and a group of investors acquired Cristalia Premium Water from Pepsi Americas.

[14] The company delivers to every chain store in Puerto Rico,[15] including the likes of Walmart and Home Depot.