OASIS International

The company was founded as the D.A. Ebinger Sanitary Manufacturing Company in 1910 with its first warehouse located at 400 West Rich Street[3][4] in Columbus, Ohio manufacturing toilet, sanitary fixtures, and plumbing supplies.[5] After a series of changes in its product categories, it renamed Ebco Manufacturing Company in 1935[6][7] before developing into new categories such as water fountains, coolers, dehumidifiers, as well as refrigeration parts.[8]

The company began branding these products under the "OASIS" name in the 1940s.[9] By 1950, it had employed 200 employees[10] and had begun a major expansion of its facilities with a windowless air-conditioned factory in 1953. This was after expanding into the dehumidifier and juice dispenser product categories to a total of 290,000-sqft in 1960[11] at 265 North Hamilton Road.

Original factory established in Columbus, Ohio, in 1910[12]

In 1992, a 30,000-sqft manufacturing facility in Ireland[13] was established for the production and distribution of its products in the European and the Middle Eastern market[14] before it was renamed Oasis Corporation later in 1996 due to the popularity of its Oasis line of products.[9][15]

By the 1990s, it had achieved having the majority of the market share of the bottled water coolers sold in the industry.[16] It expanded to a new manufacturing facility in Poland in 2001 and subsequently acquired Sunroc Corporation in 2003, then the third largest bottled water cooler manufacturer,[17][18] before having its assets acquired in 2005 by Patriarch Partners due to competition from lower-cost Asian competitors. It was subsequently renamed to OASIS International.[19]