Category: News & Community Involvement

We’d like to extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to all of our wonderful customers!

Because of your business, Premium Waters, Inc. is able to support charitable organizations and events for a variety of meaningful causes. We’re proud to help change lives and strengthen communities one bottle or gallon of water at a time.

Charities We’ve Supported – Thanks to You!

 

Susan G. Komen Twin Cities Race for the Cure

The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure® series is the world’s largest and most successful education and fundraising event for breast cancer. The series of 5K runs and fitness walks raise significant funds for the breast cancer movement, supports those living with metastatic breast cancer, celebrates breast cancer survivorship, and honors those who have lost their battle with the disease. In recent years, nearly 30,000 participants have attended the Twin Cities race every Mother’s Day.

Premium Waters has supported this event for years. For the 2019 race, our brands Chippewa® Springs and Water Joe™ were gold sponsors, and our employees and their families volunteered to distribute bottles of water to attendees.

Ruby’s Pantry

Founded in 2003, Ruby’s Pantry serves over 450k people each year and distributes over 16 million pounds of food. Pop-Up Pantry’s are held on various days throughout the week, including Saturdays in over 75 communities across Minnesota and Wisconsin. Each guest who goes to a Pop-Up Pantry donates $20 per food share and receives an abundance of grocery items. Ruby’s Pantry is a 501 C3 non-profit and has a rich heritage as a community outreach program.

Ruby’s Pantry is our surplus donation partner. We donate most of our extra inventory to help hydrate local communities.

Pierce 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb

Pierce Manufacturing hosts their 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb annually at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. All proceeds go to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation to provide resources to assist their survivors in rebuilding their lives and to work within the fire service community to reduce firefighter deaths. At the 2018 event, more than 2,700 participants promised to “never forget” the 343 New York firefighters who lost their lives on that tragic day.

Our brand Nicolet™ Natural, the official bottled water of the Green Bay Packers, was proud to be the sponsor of all water for last year’s event.

Festival Foods Turkey Trot

The Festival Foods Turkey Trot allows participants to partake in either a timed five-mile run or an untimed two-mile fun run/walk every Thanksgiving morning. This event benefits the Boys & Girls Club and YMCA in communities that Festival Foods serves. In the past 11 years, the Festival Foods Turkey Trot has donated more than 2.5 million dollars! Every fall, Premium Waters donates all the gallons of water for this event throughout Wisconsin.

Hydrate the Homeless

Water is the essence of life. Hydrate the Homeless is a non-profit organization that travels to unprotected homeless shelters in the Milwaukee, WI area during the hottest month of the summer to distribute cases of clean water to those in need.

Last summer, Premium Waters provided Hydrate the Homeless over 34,000 bottles of water we produced at a bulk discounted rate for the second year to support this non-profit. From July 9–31, 2018, cases of water were delivered to the following homeless shelters: Just One More Ministries, Street Angels, Pathfinders, Guest House, Rescue Mission, Street Life, Walkers Point Youth Shelter, and MacCanon Brown Homeless Sanctuary.

 

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Learn more about other charities & events we support!

We’re eternally grateful for your business and the opportunity to make a difference in our communities.

“We rise by lifting others.” —Robert Ingersoll

 

How does the following sound for your work place: increased productivity, improved morale and lower absenteeism? It’s a simple fact that drinking water and staying hydrated during the day lead to improved performance at work. It’s estimated that the average worker operates at only 65% of his or her potential if not properly hydrated.

Providing office water coolers or bottled water options at the workplace is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to keep your staff healthier and more productive. It’s no secret that staying properly hydrated leads to a healthier, happier lifestyle, so it’s pretty simple math that dictates that we should be drinking plenty of water while we’re at work—where most of us are for at least 40 hours a week.

Our Water Study Sheds Light on How Businesses Purchase and Consume Water

Premium Waters Inc. recently had an independent water study done by deploying surveys both online and via telephone to businesses in the Upper Midwest, with specific focus on the states of Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin. This was a blind customer/brand study; respondents were not aware that Premium Waters was the sponsor. The reason for the study was simple: We wanted to further understand our position in the marketplace, and learn how we can continue to grow and evolve to best serve the unique needs and challenges of our customers.

Over 90% of Business Customers Recommend Water Jug Delivery

Our water study found that nearly 75 percent of businesses are purchasing water jugs (3, 4, and 5 gallon) as their preferred water source, followed by bottled water (nearly 50 percent) and water coolers/filtration systems (41 percent). As a whole, business customers are very satisfied with Premium Waters and would recommend them to others.

Among business customers who purchase water jug delivery, overall satisfaction is very high (above 90 percent) among four attribute categories:

• Location
• Ease of Ordering
• Delivery Speed
• Customer Service

Overall satisfaction with primary water jug suppliers is very high, with 93.5 percent either satisfied or very satisfied with their primary supplier. Businesses stated that quick delivery and ease of ordering impact their overall satisfaction with their service.

Water Isn’t the Only Thing Being Delivered

In addition to water services, overall satisfaction for coffee suppliers is high, with 81.2 percent either satisfied or very satisfied with their primary supplier. The key drivers for overall satisfaction are customer service and e-commerce. Businesses value having quality coffee at the office—100 percent of coffee users will continue to use their primary supplier in the future, and 93 percent would recommend their supplier to others. Customer loyalty for Premium Waters’ coffee services mirrors the loyalty we see from our water customers.

This research also found that 37 percent of bottled/specialty water customers purchase custom-labeled water bottles. Of those, nearly 64 percent said having turnkey services was important.

Quality, Consistency, Variety, Convenience

The water market is constantly changing. Customer preferences now include flavored, sparkling, caffeinated and performance waters.

Having access to a variety of quality water products is not always convenient. Drinking plenty of water, however, is essential to workers overall health and well-being. Without convenient delivery services to your office, your employees and customers may not be properly hydrating or refueling their bodies for maximum energy and vitality.

Premium Waters has developed a new ecommerce website and a rewards program for any referrals any of our customers send our way. As an added bonus, we are extending the new rewards program to all of your employees as well, in the form of a discount for signing up for water delivery services to their homes.