Crystal Springs® Acquires Assets of Chester Mountain Bottled Water Company

LINDENHURST, N.Y., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Crystal Springs, one of the country's largest providers of bottled water products, including purified and spring water since 1932, is pleased to announce that it has acquired the home and office bottled water delivery business of Chester Mountain Distributors, Inc. and affiliates, which have been serving Long Island and the greater New York City area since 1998.  As the significant resources of these two companies are combined, Crystal Springs will assume management of the bottled water delivery for all Chester Mountain customers. The addition of new water delivery service routes will enable Crystal Springs to enhance its service offerings which also include office coffee service and water filtration. Crystal Springs is a division of DS Waters of America, Inc., the leading home and office bottled water company in the United States.

"We are pleased with the acquisition of the Chester Mountain business, which was started by the Holzman family in 1998, and especially pleased that Daryl Holzman will stay on as Branch Manager and Ross Holzman as Production Manager. The combined businesses will operate out of their bottling plant in Lindenhurst, New York," said Dillon Schickli, CEO of DS Waters. "The metropolitan New York market is a key market for us and an important part of our expansion plans. DS Waters now directly services 21 of the 25 largest markets in the U.S. and services our national customers in the other markets through local bottled water companies who have partnered with us."

"We welcome the Chester Mountain customers to the Crystal Springs family and look forward to servicing their bottled water, office coffee service and water filtration needs with the same superior level of customer service provided to the over 1,200,000 DS Waters service locations around the country," said Gary Dumas, VP/GM of the North East Region for DS Waters.

About Crystal Springs:  For over 75 years, Crystal Springs has delivered the finest quality water to homes and offices across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. The source of Crystal Springs can be found in the Chattahoochee National Forest, within the quiet woodlands west of Ocala, Florida, or from deep in the earth near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Because Crystal Springs offers the convenience of home or office delivery and its products can be found on store shelves, bottled water drinkers have made Crystal Springs a favored brand whether they're at home, at work or enjoying leisure activities. Known as a partner to a variety of events and organizations that are focused on family, youth, fitness and education, Crystal Springs has a tradition of giving back to the communities it serves. Crystal Springs and its Associates also support local communities by providing water during emergencies such as hurricanes, fires, floods, droughts and other natural disasters.  Learn more about what makes Crystal Springs bottled water the best bottled water delivery and filtration service choice for your family, your business, and your lifestyle at www.crystalwater.com.

About DS Waters:  Created in 2003, DS Waters is the producer and distributor of home, office, and retail bottled water, water filtration and office coffee products across the United States under the brand names Alhambra®, Belmont Springs®, Crystal Springs®, Hinckley Springs®, Kentwood Springs®, Nursery® Water, Sierra Springs® and Sparkletts®, and Roast2Coast®, a coffee delivery service. The company, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is the U.S. leader in home and office water delivery, focusing on three and five gallon, one gallon and single serve bottled water products. The Company's drinking and spring water products are bottled at 37 manufacturing facilities, 29 of which are company operated, and then delivered to millions of homes and offices, as well as retail establishments across the country. The DS Waters workforce includes approximately 4,400 employees in 41 states. DS Waters and its employees provide safe drinking water to communities during emergencies such as hurricanes, fires, floods, droughts and other natural disasters. Visit www.water.com or www.nurserywater.com for more information.

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SOURCE DS Waters