Sparkletts® Acquires Utah Bottled Water Business Assets from AquaOne, Inc.

OREM, Utah, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Sparkletts, one of the country's largest providers of bottled drinking water products, including purified and spring water since 1925, is pleased to announce that it has acquired the Utah-based home and office bottled water delivery business assets from AquaOne.   This acquisition enables Sparkletts to operate in a part of the country not previously serviced by the Company.  It also will allow Sparkletts to enhance the product offerings currently available to customers in the metropolitan Salt Lake City area, including office coffee service and water filtration.  Sparkletts is a division of DS Waters of America, Inc., the leading home and office bottled water company in the United States.

"This is an exciting acquisition for DS Waters," said Tom Harrington, COO of DS Waters. "Over the past several years, we have explored many options on how we might expand into this region and this opportunity is a natural fit into our growth strategy."

Craig Brewton CEO of AquaOne, Inc stated, "AquaOne is excited to find such a great company (DS Waters) to continue to service our customers. This divestiture will allow us to put more focus on our other markets, while leaving our Utah customers in the hands of another customer oriented company."

"We welcome the Salt Lake City area AquaOne customers into the Sparkletts family and look forward to delivering their bottled water, office coffee service and water filtration needs with the same superior level of customer service provided to more than 1,200,000 DS Waters service locations around the country," said Ray McGillis, West Division President for DS Waters.

About Sparkletts:  

Sparkletts® was founded in Los Angeles, California in 1925.  Since then, Sparkletts has held the distinction of being one of the country's finest providers of pure, refreshing water.  Bottled water drinkers have made Sparkletts their favored brand whether they're at home, at work or enjoying leisure activities.  Learn more about what makes Sparkletts bottled water the best bottled water delivery and filtration service choice for your family, your business, and your lifestyle at www.Sparkletts.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®, Sparkletts®, and Roast2Coast®, a coffee delivery service. The company, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the leaders in the U.S. 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, and then delivered to in excess of a million homes and offices, as well as retail establishments across the country. The DS Waters workforce includes approximately 4,600 associates in 42 states. DS Waters and its associates also 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