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Odwalla, Inc. was founded in the fall of 1980 by longtime friends, Greg Steltenpohl, Gerry Percy, and Bonnie Bassett. They started the business in part to help fund musical and multi-media presentations they wanted to create for local schools and cultural events to educate people about issues such as cultural diversity and the environment. (more detail on Odwalla history, a.k.a. The Roots here.) The company's name came from a favorite musical piece by The Art Ensemble of Chicago. (here is the story of How the Name Came to Be.) In 1992, almost 80 Odwalla employees helped create the company's vision and core values statements - the articulation of how we want to do business and what we want our business focus to be. Since then, the vision and values have served as guiding beacons in our decision making processes and as tools to help each of us remember our shared vision and strive to embody the core values in all our actions at Odwalla. Click here for information on employment opportunities. Since December 1993 Odwalla has been a publicly
held company. Its stock is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the
symbol ODWA and can be bought through any securities dealer. (check the
Odwalla Dolla Page for more Investor Info.) In 1995, Odwalla expanded its product mix by introducing Odwalla Geothermal Natural Spring Water. These 16,000 year old waters come from Trinity Springs, Idaho. They have a circulation depth of 2.5 miles and are among the most pristine waters left on the planet. Odwalla's colorful and whimsical graphic images have become a major indentifier for the company. Click here to peruse an assortment of OdwallaWarez, plus credits for and updates to this site, as well as some technical notes. |