It may look like I saved the best for last but take a look at the final updated of TOP CUSTOMERS OF BRWC!
Poject 7 - Five years ago, Tyler Merrick came up with an idea for customers to give back to the environment just by buying a pack of gum. Project 7 was born -- for every pack sold, the company plants a tree. Merrick was peddling the chewing gum at a trade show in New York City in 2011 when a Wal-Mart representative asked him to come to the company's headquarters. Wal-Mart executives liked his pitch and agreed to test the gum in a couple hundred stores. It was a hit, and Wal-Mart started carrying the gum in 1,500 stores within a few months. Today, the gum is sold at all Wal-Mart stores nationwide. Merrick says it's been huge for Project 7, which employs eight people. He said Project 7 has planted 2 million trees from its relationship with Wal-Mart. With the increased demand from Wal-Mart, Project 7 ramped up production, leading to an extra 100 manufacturing jobs at the factories that make the gum. - Wal-Mart is just on of many big companies working with Project 7 witch makes Project 7 one of the most destignwished clients of BRWC and should make all shareholders proud that Boreal Water is cooperating with such a good company that strives for a better mankind
Pret A Manager - Pret opened in London in 1986. College friends, Sinclair and Julian, made proper sandwiches avoiding the obscure chemicals, additives and preservatives common to so much of the 'prepared' and 'fast' food on the market today. The two of them had woefully little experience in the world of business. They created the sort of food they craved but couldn't find anywhere else. "Because Pret is private we don't face the same pressure to grow that a public company does. We will develop slowly, one shop at a time." There are about 335 Pret shops worldwide at the moment. Most of them are in the UK and between them they turn over roughly 450 million pounds a year. - Definitely worth a mention as a BRWC top client!
Saks Fifth Avenue - It was the brainchild of Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel, who operated independent retail stores on New York's 34th Street at Herald Square in the early 1900s. Their dream was to construct a unique specialty store that would become synonymous with fashionable, gracious living. The combined financial input of these great merchant families led to the purchase of a site between 49th and 50th Streets on upper Fifth Avenue, then jointly occupied by the Democratic Club and the Buckingham Hotel. With the opening of its founders' "dream store" on September 15, 1924, Saks Fifth Avenue became the first large retail operation to locate in what was then primarily a residential district. By offering the finest quality men's and women's fashions, as well as an extraordinary program of customer services, Saks Fifth Avenue has become the byword for taste and elegance. Saks Fifth Avenue today is renowned for its superlative selling services and merchandise offerings. The best of European and American designers for men and women are sold throughout its 39 stores servicing customers in 22 states.
Rite Aid - 196.2 first store opens as Thrift D Discount Center in Scranton, Pennsylvania. 1965. They grow rapidly through acquisitions and the opening of new stores, expanding to five northeastern states. 1972. They now operate 267 stores in 10 states. 1981. The company becomes the third-largest retail drugstore chain in the country. 1983 Rite Aid passes the $1 billion sales mark for the first time. 1996 They expand services to the West Coast and the Gulf Coast region, through the acquisitions of Thrifty PayLess Holdings, Inc., Harco, Inc., and K & B Incorporated, adding over 1,000 stores to the company. After completing the purchase of the Brooks and Eckerd drugstore chains Rite Aid becoms the largest drugstore chain on the East Coast and the third-largest nationally.
