Bottled Water Hall of Fame inductees are those who have earned the respect and admiration of their peers for their extraordinary service to the bottled water industry.
The 2012 Beverage World Bottled Water Hall of Fame award went to Stewart E Allen, special advisor to the board of Atlanta-based DS Waters.
Stewart Allen has been a forceful and eloquent supporter of the bottled water industry for many years.
At 17, he was a helper on a beverage delivery truck and by 28 he was the vice president of sales and marketing at MBL Beverages, an Eastern Canadian Pepsi bottler.
Allen has also served the bottled water industry in various volunteer roles – treasurer of the Canadian Bottled Water Association, IBWA committee chairmanships, IBWA director, IBWA chairman, International Council of Bottled Water Associations delegate, ICBWA chairman (twice), and the Drinking Water Research Foundation’s vice chairman of the board of trustees.
Source: IBWA
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