Sparkletts Explained

Sparkletts is a bottled water brand and a direct delivery home and office provider founded in Los Angeles in 1925. It is now owned by DS Services of America, Inc.

History

Sparkletts was founded in 1925 by Burton N. Arnds Sr. along with partners, Washburne and Bollinger in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with municipal water supply,[1] he built a bottling plant near an east Los Angeles well and christened the company Sparkling Artesian Water Co.[2] As demand grew, it outgrew its original facility, then Arnds commissioned an 80,000 square foot replacement at 4500 Lincoln Avenue, north of downtown Los Angeles.[3] Due to supplies of free-flowing underground water, no containment tanks or reservoirs were necessary to keep the plant operating.

Sparkletts was sold to Foremost Dairies in 1964, which was in turn acquired by McKesson-Robbins, based in San Francisco.[4] In 2000, Sparkletts was subsumed into the Danone Group[5] [6] and in 2003, DS Waters was created, with Sparkletts as one of its bottled water delivery brands.[7] [8] In 2014, DS Waters of America, Inc. announced that it has changed its name to DS Services of America, Inc.[9]

Sparkletts delivers FIJI Water, LaCroix, Sparkling ICE, and coffee brands.[10]

The company was featured in Visiting... with Huell Howser Episode 831.[11]

Environmentalism and corporate responsibility

Sparkletts provided bottled water for cooking and drinking as an alternative to the well water to about 200 residents of the unincorporated community of Hinkley, CA whose well water was contaminated from cancer-causing chromium-6 that kills algae and protects metal from Pacific Gas & Electric natural pumping station which is in the case portrayed in "Erin Brockovich".[12] [13] The bottled water helped ease the strain of residents living without running water.[14]

References

  1. Web site: Ten Things You May Not Know About Eagle Rock. Loc. Tim. LAist. 2019-06-03. 2019-06-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20190603152755/https://laist.com/2017/03/16/ten_things_eagle_rock.php. dead.
  2. Web site: Neighborhood Fixture: Sparkletts Bottling Plant in Eagle Rock The Eastsider LA. www.theeastsiderla.com. 13 February 2013 . 2019-06-03.
  3. Web site: Water and Power Associates. waterandpower.org. 2019-06-03.
  4. Web site: bottled water, and sparkletts. myriadsmallthings.org. 2019-05-08.
  5. Web site: Bottled Water - The Definitive Bottled Water Site. www.bottledwaterweb.com. 2019-06-03.
  6. Book: Plunkett's Food Industry Almanac 2009. 2009. Plunkett Research, Ltd.. 9781593921316. en.
  7. News: Cott to acquire DS Services, parent in $1.25 billion deal. Christopher Seward. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. en. 2019-06-03.
  8. Web site: Second Act Success for Athena Founder. Act Three?. Hannon. Kerry. Forbes. en. 2019-06-03.
  9. DS Waters Changes Its Name To DS Services. Inc. DS Services of America. www.prnewswire.com. en. 2019-06-03.
  10. Web site: DS Services Enters Sparkling Water Category with the Launch of Sparkletts & Sparkletts ice. 2015-05-04. BevNET.com. en-US. 2019-06-03.
  11. Web site: Sparkletts – Visiting (831) – Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University . 3 March 2017 .
  12. Web site: PG&E to stop providing bottled water to California town featured in 'Erin Brockovich. Press . Associated. 2014-08-02. The Mercury News. en-US. 2019-06-03.
  13. Web site: This Is What It's Like To Live With Toxic Tap Water In California. BuzzFeed News. 12 February 2018 . en. 2019-06-03.
  14. Web site: 100,000 bottles of water. BALLARD. KELLI. Porterville Recorder. 22 September 2015 . en. 2019-06-03.

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