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Spero Group Inc. Receives 2009 Best of Business Award Small Business Commerce Association’s Award Honors the Achievement SAN FRANSICO, November 7, 2009, Spero Group Inc. has been selected for the 2009 Best of Business Award in the Mineral or spring water bottling category by the Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA) The Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA) is pleased to announce that Spero Group Inc. has been selected for the 2009 Best of Business Award in the Mineral or spring water bottling category. |
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The SBCA 2009 Award Program recognizes the top 5% of small businesses throughout the country. Using consumer feedback, the SBCA identifies companies that we believe have demonstrated what makes small businesses a vital part of the American economy. The selection committee chooses the award winners from nominees based off information taken from monthly surveys administered by the SBCA, a review of consumer rankings, and other consumer reports. Award winners are a valuable asset to their community and exemplify what makes small businesses great. About Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA) Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA) is a San Francisco based organization. The SBCA is a private sector entity that aims to provide tactical guidance with many day to day issues that small business owners face. In addition to our main goal of providing a central repository of small business operational advice; we use consumer feedback to identify companies that exemplify what makes small business a vital part of the American economy. SOURCE: Small Business Commerce Association CONTACT:
Tumai Water places Bronze for Best Ethical / Humanitarian Initiative at the 2008 Water Innovation Awards held in Wiesbaden, Garmany at the Global Bottled Water Congress Spero Group President, Bob Downey was on hand at the Congress to receive the award. "This is a great honor; it means we will be able to reach our message out to more people and as a result, help more people." Read the full story on Tumai Water's awards page. For more information on the awards and the other winners, please visit the story on foodbev.com
In search of the world's Top 5
glasses of water How long has it been since you really enjoyed a glass of water? Odds are, any number of things in your H2O (both better and worse for
you than just regular water in its unspoiled state) have tainted your chance
to experience this life-giving liquid at its best. Though some die-hard environmentalists consider bottled water a big no-no, we're talking taste here - and I can tell you that U.S.-based Tumai bottled water is the best-tasting liquid I have ever guzzled from a 500 ml prison of polycarbonate. Gathered from a spring in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, this Martinsburg, West Virginia-based company has won several top prizes for taste in 2008. Its water is 100 per cent free of sodium and it shows in the taste. What's more, the company donates 15 per cent of its proceeds to programs that better the quality of life for impoverished communities in Sub-Saharan-Africa. - Read the full Discvoery Channel article at: |
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is the Message in Martinsburg Bottled Water Story by CHRISTINE MILLER FORD MARTINSBURG -- Does the world really need another brand of bottled spring water? Bob Downey, who heads Spero Group Inc., the Martinsburg company marketing Tumai Water, says that yes, the world literally does. Anti-poverty programs in South Africa and elsewhere get part of the proceeds from every bottle of Tumai purchased. |
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The water, which can boast the title “Best Tasting Bottled Water in the World” after taking top honors at the Berkeley Springs’ annual water tasting competition earlier this year, is sold in stores in dozens of counties in West Virginia as well as in five other states in the Northeast. It also has distributors as far away as Texas, California and even Europe in negotiations to carry the brand. “Everyone drinks bottled water and our water costs the same as all the other products on the shelf,’’ Downey explains. “But because we use proceeds to bring safe drinking water, food, clothes, education and other help to some of the poorest parts of the world, this is a way for people to get the drink they need and do a good deed at the same time.” The name Tumai translates to “hope” in Swahili and the company employs the slogan, “Need a Drink, Drink for a Need.” Downey said he wanted to enter the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting competition in February “hoping just to get our name out there.” Winning the big prize generated coverage in news outlets ranging from CNN and the BBC to USA Today, the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere. Distributors began flooding Downey with offers to carry the brand, which is bottled from a spring near Danville, Va. Read the entire article at the WV State Jounal: http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=39667
Tumai Water won the Gold medal
for "bottled non-carbonated" water at the 2008 Berkeley
Springs Water Tasting Festival.
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Check out the festival's website for more info. Tumai
Water also won the Bronze for package design |
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Company Sends Hope in a Bottle One West Virginia company has found a unique way to bring hope to the less fortunate: It is bottling it. The Spero Group, headquartered in Martinsburg, recently launched a brand of bottled water called “Tumai Means to Hope,” and the company, which is designed to run like a nonprofit organization, has pledged to donate money left over from production and operating costs directly to African relief efforts, according to Robert Downey, the company’s managing director. Downey said buying the water is a way
that everyone can do a good deed. Martinsburg Water Company Takes
Top Prize While Saving Lives (02/25/2008) The best tasting water title goes to a Martinsburg business. Tumai Water doesn't just bottle water, it's also saving lives in Africa. Children at an orpanage in Africa now have fresh food, thanks, in part, to Bob Downey and his business partners. Downey operates Tumai Water out of his home in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He says, "It's amazing things that have happened, that we've been able to accomplish with so little money."
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