Aqua Vie Beverage Corporation Retains Herve Franceschi, and Appoints Him To Their Strategic Advisory Board.

KETCHUM, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 19, 1998--Aqua Vie Beverage Corporation (OTC:AVBC) announced today that it had retained Herve Franceschi as consultant to Aqua Vie's International Operations, and has also appointed him to its Strategic Advisory Board.

Franceschi is presently the president of Septipack, a firm that specializes in feasibility studies, consulting, and co-packing with aseptic bottling processes, worldwide. From 1993 to 1995, Septipack was the U.S. agent for Remy, a French Company that produces state-of-the art aseptic bottling equipment. Prior to 1993, Franceschi was vice president of sales for Remy Aseptic Beverage Fillers in the U.S.

Franceschi conducted the first tests on the aceptic processing of "all natural" beverages into PET plastic bottles, a process that had never been done before in the U.S. Since then, Franceschi's company, Septipack has assisted numerous beverage manufacturers seeking to utilize this new bottling technique in many parts of the world.

In September, Franceschi served as Aqua Vie Beverage Corporation's agent, in reaching an agreement to produce Aqua Vie products at Delifruits S.A., a bottling facility in Valence, in southeast France.

In commenting on the announcement, Tom Gillespie, founder of Aqua Vie said, "I've known Herve for several years now, and I am confident that he will prove to be a very valuable asset to our quality assurance program internationally, and will add an important dimension to our strategic advisory committee."

Franceschi commented, "I'm excited to be coming on board with Aqua Vie, and feel that I can contribute substantially to efficiently positioning Aqua Vie's overall operations within the international marketplace, as well as facilitate several important potential alliances abroad."

Aqua Vie produces the long awaited Hydrator(tm) all natural product line of seven flavored non-carbonated spring waters, that were designed to increase one's personal consumption of spring 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 Aquaceuticals(tm), and Aqua Vie's Non-Alcoholic Wine Beverages made from spring water. All four product lines are expected to be introduced at InterBev, the largest beverage trade show in the U.S., being held in Dallas Oct. 26-28, 1998.

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