Lynda Resnick, one of Working Woman's Top 50 U.S. Women Business Owners, is behind the marketing success of brands such as POM Wonderful, Fiji Water and Teleflora. She and her husband Stewart Resnick also own Paramount Farms and Paramount Citrus Companies, making them the largest farmers of tree crops in the U.S.
Bio
Lisa Napoli
In over 20 years in journalism, Lisa Napoli has been a writer at CNN, a columnist and reporter for The New York Times, an on-air correspondent for MSNBC, a columnist for MSNBC.com, and a producer (in various capacities) for News Corp. and for the home-shopping channel QVC.
Napoli has directed documentaries that have aired on public television, and written many news stories for a variety of publications, which her father dutifully archives in cardboard boxes.
Most recently, Napoli worked for a start-up radio station called Kuzoo FM 90 in the formerly media-free Kingdom of Bhutan, a country between India and China.
Lynda Resnick
Lynda Resnick began her business career at the age of 19, when she founded a full-service advertising agency. Other ventures throughout her career include corporate management, marketing, product development, and most recently, writing.
She and her husband Stewart are passionate about all things healthy and Resnick is behind the marketing success of brands such as POM Wonderful, Fiji Water and Teleflora.
In her role as President of Teleflora, Resnick introduced "Flowers in a Gift," which earned her a gold Effie award. For six years, Resnick has been listed as one of Working Woman's Top 50 U.S. Women Business Owners. She serves on the Executive Board of The Aspen Institute and chairs the Development Committee; the Executive Board for the UCLA Medical Sciences; CaP CURE and the Milken Family Foundation.
She is a Trustee and Executive Vice President of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as the Chair of the Collections Committee, and is a Trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Along with her husband, she is a proud parent and grandparent and calls Beverly Hills and Aspen home.
You are wise to drink tap water rather than bottled water which actually comes from another city's water supply:
"Everest Water is not from Mount Everest. It's from Corpus Christi, Texas. Glacier Clear Water is not from a glacier in Alaska. Its source is tap water from Greeneville, Tenn. Big-selling Dasani and Aquafina are also just reprocessed tap water from cities around the country. One of Aquafina's sources is the Detroit River!" (John Stossell)
This lady is hilarious. Sarah the Green: If Fiji Water were to stop their activity, how would that benefit the Fijians? I don't drink the stuff, but that's mostly because I think shipping water halfway around the world is a little ridiculous considering it comes out of the faucet for free at home, but I'm also poor. Plus, I'm blessed to live in a place with yummy tap water, and I used to live where you could smell the tap water from across the room. Bleh!
People who want to know what the real cost of Fiji Water is to the environment and to the people of Fiji should read this:
http://www.alternet.org/water/101207/
It's a good thing POM figured out how to make tasty juice out of pomegranates. Really, how in the heck are you supposed to eat those things!? Such an alien looking fruit.