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Milo’s 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: Milo’s Chair and CEO Tricia Wallwork, an NAM board member, told the story on LinkedIn on Friday:

• “Yesterday, we made the decision to pause tea and lemonade production at Milo’s Tea Company, Inc. at our Tulsa, Oklahoma, plant—not 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 truckloads—124 pallets and more than 119,000 bottles—of Milo’s bottled water will arrive at the San Antonio Food Bank to support flood relief efforts in a community that’s 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 Milo’s, 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 Milo’s—from operations and supply chain to quality and logistics—rallied to make it happen,” Wallwork wrote.

• “We’re 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 Milo’s. From Hurricane Helene in [North Carolina] . . . to today’s flooding in [Texas], we’ll continue showing up authentically where we’re needed—with heart, humility and help,” Wallwork concluded.