Fountain Fresh signs contract with Canada's largest grocery retailer.SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 1995--Fountain Fresh International (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on EBB:FNTF), which pioneered development of the world's first in-store, self-serve, pressure-fill mini-bottling plant/beverage dispenser, Tuesday announced that its Canadian joint venture partner, Fountain Fresh Canada, has signed a contract with National Grocers Co. Ltd., one of the 11 wholesale/retail subsidiaries of Loblaws Company Ltd. of Toronto. Loblaws is Canada's largest food wholesale/retail company serving more than 4,750 stores. Richard Vigos, executive vice president sales and marketing of Fountain Fresh International Fountain Fresh International is a defunct company that operated soft drink and water dispensers at retail locations. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Fountain Fresh developed and marketed in-store, self-serve soft drink and pure drinking water beverage centers in the mid-1990s. , said the first stage of the relationship with National Grocers will be a five-beverage-dispenser market test in the Ottawa, Canada market area. The first of these five dispensers will be installed the week of May 22 in Ottawa, Brian Birmingham, president of Fountain Fresh Canada, said, with the other four to follow shortly thereafter. The five-store market test will serve to demonstrate to Loblaws and National Grocers, the efficiency and profitability of the dispensing dispensing provision of drugs or medicines as set out properly on a lawful prescription. A prescription can only be filled, the drugs supplied, by a registered pharmacist, veterinarian, dentist or member of the medical profession. systems, the high quality of the beverages and the customer attraction to and acceptance of in-store bottling, he added. The BEVERAGE CENTER 2000(TM) dispenser, placed in supermarkets, allows the price-conscious, quality-conscious and environmentally-conscious consumer to fill and refill refill noun A second allotment of a prescription agent obtained from a pharmacy, which is allowed by the original prescription verb Pharmacology To obtain more of a particular drug, after the initially prescribed amount of the agent has been used or one and two-liter PET plastic bottles with up to 24 flavors of the lowest-priced, yet top quality ice-cold carbonated soft drinks in the store. The BEVERAGE CENTER 2000 also dispenses cold drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. into one and two-gallon containers. Fountain Fresh processes city tap water through multiple filtration, softening softening /sof·ten·ing/ (sof´en-ing) malacia. softening a change of consistency, with loss of firmness or hardness. , reverse osmosis reverse osmosis n. The movement of a solvent in the opposite direction from osmosis in such a manner that the solvent moves from a solution of greater concentration through a membrane to a solution of lesser concentration. and ozonation stages to ensure consistent quality and purity that far exceeds EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. standards for "Pure Drinking Water." "The taste, quality and ice-cold freshness are guaranteed to be the best available," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Otto Cutts, president and chief executive officer of Salt Lake City-based Fountain Fresh. Enthusiastic consumer acceptance of the Fountain Fresh dispensers is evidenced by the more than 25 percent beverage market share that 22 such systems have captured over the past eight months in metro Salt Lake City supermarkets, with more than 60 percent of those sales being refills. Cutts maintains that the BEVERAGE CENTER 2000 dispenser attracts and anchors consumers to the supermarkets where they are installed. The 36 percent increase in overall beverage category sales in those 22 stores gives credence to his claim. A typical Fountain Fresh customer says she started using Fountain Fresh beverages because of their low price, but kept returning because of the wide selection of top quality flavors. She also says she likes refilling her bottles to do her part for the environment -- plus "it's kind of fun." For investment or licensed distributorship information, one should contact Otto Cutts by telephone at 801/538-0060 or by fax at 801/538-0074. CONTACT: Molesworth Associates Inc., Green Valley, Ariz. Gordon Molesworth, 520/625-0035 |
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