Creating connections with every sip.

Their idea: fizzy, sparkling water with natural flavors. But what to name it? Hmmmm, something with rain. It’s raining outside and the Talking Heads are playing in the background. “All wet! Hey, you might need a raincoat. Shakedown! Dreams walking in broad daylight. Three hun-dred six-ty five de-grees. Burning down the house…” Talking Rain is born.

Two moves that would come to define us: relocation to Preston, WA and the launch of Sparkling Ice®.

We were the first beverage sponsor to join the Susan G. Komen Puget Sound Race for the Cure^®.

JK. Kinda. Our grounds flooded, forming a “protective” waterway around the entire plant…every time it rained in the PNW. Stacked pallets formed our “highway to civilization.”

We changed the sweetener in Sparkling Ice® to sucralose – becoming the 1^st beverage company in the U.S. to do so.

We (as in, like, the whole world) were all super worried and so we ran our plant 24/7. You know, just in case.

Fun fact: Our Twist slogan was, drumroll please, “Twy One.”

After a surprise upset, our little underdog went from a PNW exclusive, to a regional launch in the Midwest with Kroger, to a national brand in aisles near you.

Our mascots were kind of a big deal. Check it out! (Oh, and measured IRI dollar sales increased over 300% from the prior year.) Great way to celebrate our 25th birthday!

We completed our national DSD network (one of the few non-alcoholic beverages to accomplish this), launched our Bold Side of Water® campaign, were named the fastest growing non-alcoholic brand in the U.S., and introduced our first brand extension: Sparkling Ice® Lemonades.

We grew our retail sales to over $500M per year—an increase of over 30% in just one year. With such success, we found a new way to give back: partnering with Honor Flight, a non-profit that brings veterans to D.C. to visit the monuments built in their honor. Check it out!

Sparkling Ice® now features colors from natural sources, aka, fruit and vegetable juice!