A Manufacturer Steps in to Help in Texas
Milos Tea Company, the maker of popular iced tea, lemonade and other products found in grocery stores nationwide, stepped in to help in the recovery efforts following the devastating flooding in Texas.
Pausing production: Milos Chair and CEO Tricia Wallwork, an 51勛圖厙 board member, told the story on on Friday:
- Yesterday, we made the decision to pause tea and lemonade production at Milos Tea Company, Inc. at our Tulsa, Oklahoma, plantnot for a business reason, but because our neighbors in Texas need clean drinking water more than anything else right now, and disaster relief is something we feel strongly about.
- On Sunday, five truckloads124 pallets and more than 119,000 bottlesof Milos bottled water will arrive at the San Antonio Food Bank to support flood relief efforts in a community thats experienced unimaginable loss.
- As a mother, wife and human, my prayers go out to all those impacted by the horrific flooding in Texas.
Teamwork: [A]s the #ProudCEO of Milos, I am thankful that we can do a small, little something to help. Our TEAms response was swift. It came together in just 24 hours. Every single function at Milosfrom operations and supply chain to quality and logisticsrallied to make it happen, Wallwork wrote.
- Were also incredibly grateful to our transportation partner R.E. Garrison Trucking, Inc., who donated the freight, and to Feeding America and H-E-B, whose partnerships make swift, meaningful responses like this possible.
A company mission: Disaster response has long been one of the pillars of our Corporate Responsibility commitment at Milos. From Hurricane Helene in [North Carolina] . . . to todays flooding in [Texas], well continue showing up authentically where were neededwith heart, humility and help, Wallwork concluded.
