(COMTEX) B: RANDALLS, TOM THUMB AND SIMON DAVID PLACE SYSTEM-WIDE ORD
B: RANDALLS, TOM THUMB AND SIMON DAVID PLACE SYSTEM-WIDE ORDER FOR AQUA VIE
KETCHUM, Idaho, Mar 21, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Thomas
Gillespie, president and chief executive officer of Aqua Vie Beverage
Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: AVBC), announced today that the
company has received a system-wide order from Randalls Food Markets,
which will begin carrying Aqua Vie Hydrators within approximately 30
days. Houston-based Randalls Food Markets merged with Safeway Stores in
1999 and is one of the Southwest's largest grocery/pharmaceutical
retailers. A privately held supermarket chain, the company operates
Randalls and Flagship Randalls stores in the Houston and Austin areas,
and Tom Thumb and Simon David stores in the Dallas/Fort Worth area,
approximately 120 stores in all. Randalls also offers Internet-based
home delivery.
New Age Texas, a beverage distributor with offices in Houston and
Farmers Branch, will begin distribution to the Randalls system of
stores in the Houston and Dallas/Fort Worth areas, and other locations
throughout the northern and central parts of the state. Albert
Distribution, a large regional grocery and C-store DSD (direct store
delivery) distributor, will cover the Austin area, San Antonio and
points south.
"We are witnessing a great deal of enthusiasm for Aqua Vie
Hydrators(TM) throughout Texas and the southwest. Obviously, this is
thirsty country, and Randalls offers us a solid presence in a key
market," said Gillespie. "With four regions now having opened up, we
continue to make inroads into retail chain distribution on a national
basis," he said.
Gillespie emphasized that pending availability in retail outlets in any
given geographic area, Aqua Vie Hydrators(TM) are available directly to
consumers, via the company's web site at www.aquavie.com, where they
may be purchased for home delivery by the sample pack, by the case or
in any one of several featured Hydration Subscriptions(TM).
Aqua Vie Beverage Corporation develops and markets all-natural, lightly
flavored, still (non-carbonated) bottled spring water. The company's
low-calorie alternative beverages are bacteria-free and contain no
preservatives. Aqua Vie produces and markets the Hydrator(TM) line of
beverages in the United States and Europe. This beverage line,
comprised of seven low-calorie, all-natural beverages that are lightly
flavored and packaged in 1/2-liter bottles, is designed to increase
one's personal consumption of water, naturally. The underlying
technology also serves as the new delivery system for Aqua Vie's
nutritionally fortified E Line(TM); Elixir(TM), Empower(TM), and
Ecstasy(TM), its nutritionally specific line of Aquaceuticals(TM), and
Aqua Vie's nonalcoholic wine and champagne beverages made from spring
water. For further information about Aqua Vie Beverage Corporation,
visit the company's web site at www.aquavie.com.
NOTE: Statements contained in this release that are not strictly
historical are forward-looking within the meaning of the safe harbor
clause of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Editors
and investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements invoke
risk and uncertainties that may cause the company's actual results to
differ materially from such forward-looking statements. These risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, demand for the company's
product both domestically and abroad, the company's ability to continue
to develop its market, general economic conditions, and other factors
that may be more fully described in the company's literature and any
periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
SOURCE Aqua Vie Beverage Corporation
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CONTACT: Thomas Gillespie, President/CEO of Aqua Vie Beverage
Corporation, 208-622-7792; or Madeleine Franco of Jordan
Richard Assoc.,
801-268-8610, ir@jordanrichard.com, for Aqua Vie Beverage
Corporation
WEB PAGE: jordanrichard.com
aquavie.com
GEOGRAPHY: Idaho
Texas
INDUSTRY CODE: FOD
REA
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