SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND STAMFORD, CT (November 6, 2023) – The American Red Cross is honored to announce that BlueTriton Brands' ongoing in-kind donation of Arrowhead® 100% Mountain Spring Water to Red Cross blood drives and blood donation centers has reached more than 264,000 blood donors who have donated more than one million blood products (whole blood, plasma and platelets) in Southern California.
Since 2018, the Arrowhead Brand® has been keeping donors hydrated at over 22,000 blood drives in Southern California and reached more than 260,000 blood donors. “We’ve been proud members of the Southern California community for over 125 years. Our partnership with the Red Cross allows us to provide free water to those donating blood,” said Pegah Hazrati, Regional Vice President at BlueTriton Brands, West Region. “Someone in the U.S. needs lifesaving blood every two seconds and supporting blood donations is an incredible feat that lets us know we’re making a difference in residents’ lives.”
“Whether it is a personal emergency or a community-wide crisis, patients across America rely on blood that is readily available on hospital shelves. Many lifesaving medical treatments like chemotherapy, organ transplants and trauma surgeries rely on reliable blood products,” said Sean Mahoney, Regional CEO with the Red Cross Southern California Region. “The Red Cross is grateful for BlueTriton Brands’ commitment to supporting blood donors. Following a blood donation, drinking fluids such as water and eating snacks provides a vital role in providing nourishment to blood donors and helping reenergize them.”
BlueTriton Brands’ in-kind contributions allow the Red Cross to focus resources on essential services, such as increasing donor recruitment, including donors with rare blood types, expanding blood drive locations, and maintaining technology which aids in blood collection, testing, storing and delivering products to hospitals in order to meet the needs of Southern California’s communities.
About BlueTriton Brands:
BlueTriton Brands offers an extensive portfolio of highly recognizable, responsibly sourced and packaged spring water, purified water and water beverage brands including Poland Spring® Brand, Deer Park® Brand, Ozarka® Brand, Ice Mountain® Brand, Zephyrhills® Brand, Arrowhead® Brand, Origin™ Natural Spring Water, Saratoga® Spring Water, AC+ION® Alkaline Water, Pure Life® Purified Water, B’EAU® Marine Collagen Water Beverage, Splash Blast® Flavored Water Beverage and Splash Fizz® Fruit Flavored Sparkling Water Beverage. BlueTriton Brands also owns and operates ReadyRefresh®, a customizable water and beverage delivery service that has been certified as a CarbonNeutral® business.
Based in Stamford, Connecticut, BlueTriton Brands and its affiliates in the United States and Canada employ over 7,000 employees. BlueTriton Brands manages resources for long-term sustainability and helps to safeguard more than 20,000 acres of watershed land. The Company has 28 production facilities across the United States, 13 of which are Alliance for Water Stewardship ("AWS") certified across 12 sites, with eight of the certified facilities being AWS Platinum, the highest-level certification.
About Red Cross Southern California Region:
The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies about 40 percent of the nation's blood; teaches skills that save lives; provides international humanitarian aid, and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a not-for-profit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the public to perform its mission. The Red Cross Southern California Region proudly serves San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Imperial Counties. In addition to carrying out disaster preparedness and response programs, blood collection, health and safety training, international services programs and supporting the military community, the Southern California Region provides nutritional counseling through its Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program in San Diego and helps communities prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. For more information, please visit redcross.org/SoCal or cruzrojaamericana.org, or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
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