1700 - Chippewa Springs in Chippewa Falls, WI is first discovered

1798 - Unsweetened carbonated water is first bottled in Europe; the idea quickly spreads to the United States.

1835 - Soda water is first bottled in the United States and sold as medicine (syrup was added for flavor)

1870 - Cilo Chesterman lends his brother-in-law $400 to start a bottling company (more than a century later, Premium Waters, Inc. would be incorporated by Chesterman Company, a pioneer in the U.S. bottling industry)

1994 - Chesterman Company re-enters the bottled water business by purchasing Kandiyohi Bottled Water Company a distiller of purified bottled water, and adopts the name Premium Waters, Inc.

1997 - Premium Waters, Inc. purchases Chippewa Springs, a company that has been bottling the highest quality spring water in the upper Midwest since the 1880’s

1998 - Premium Waters, Inc. acquires Artesian Water (Racine, WI), Nature’s Purest (New Berlin, WI), and Lindsay Water Company (Madison, WI)

1999 - Premium Waters, Inc. purchases All Star Bottling of Kansas City, KS

2000 - Premium Waters, Inc. purchases Mirage Distribution (Nenah, WI)

2001 - Premium Waters, Inc. acquires Naturally Pure Waters (Kenosha, WI) and Beer Capital Distributing water operations (Milwaukee, WI)

2002 - Premium Waters, Inc. acquires Glacier Clear in Kansas City, MO and 4 bottling plants in Fort Worth, TX.; Greeneville, TN.; Orange Springs, FL.; and Quincy, IL.; Chippewa Falls and Kansas City plants establish shrink wrap and registered film capabilities.