RelayFoods.com Announces Additional Investment of $3.1 Million

Rhudy & Co. helped our food-friendly clients at RelayFoods.com make a big annoucnement in January.

The privately held company based in Charlottesville, Va.,  received an additional capital investments of $3.1 million by Battery Ventures, a global venture capital firm, and other undisclosed investors. Relay will use the funding to further enhance services for customers and continue its growth.

Read what the Daily Progress said about the funding news on the cover of its Jan. 28, 2012, issue. The story also ran in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on the same day.

About Relay
Currently, Relay has 25 pickup locations in Charlottesville and 35 in the Richmond area. It sells local products and goods from more than 100 unique local merchants, vendors and stores that partner with the company as an alternative distribution channel to expand the availability of their products.

Hungry? Try these tasty favorites
By the way, try the NoBull Burger Gourmet Veggie Burgers and Carpe Donuts. You'll love them both, but not together.

RelayFoods.com Offers Tasty, Fresh Options from Virginia’s Small Businesses Reports Work It, Richmond

Work It, Richmond highlighted the important role our client, RelayFoods.com, is playing to help small businesses grow throughout Central Virginia.

Relay is becoming “sort of incubator for small businesses that operate in the food industry” by partnering with 60 farms and stores, stated the online article on Oct. 24, 2011.

The company makes it easier for people to gain access to local produce, baked goods, and other products without having to drive the “extra mile” to obtain them. Relay Foods, based in Charlottesville, Va., makes grocery shopping easier for time-strapped customers with its free pick up and paid home delivery services. Its unique model allows for small food businesses that may not have a “brick-and-mortar” store or presence at a farmers’ market to get their products into the hands of consumers.

NoBull Burgers’ vegetarian offerings, Homestead Creamery milk and Mediterranean Bakery’s feta are just a few of our favorites Relay items.

While only 15 of Relay Food’s 40 employees work in Richmond, Relay Foods is able to serve 700 customers a day out of its warehouse in the Scott’s Addition neighborhood.

Hungry? Order by midnight and pickup your order at an area location near your office or house tomorrow afternoon. It’s that easy.

Helping Bon Secours to Launch its First Good Health Clinic for Employees and Their Families

Our clients at Bon Secours Virginia Health System this month opened their first on-site health clinic for employees at St. Mary’s Hospital in Richmond, Va.

Rhudy & Co. helped to launch the Good Health Clinic internally with a variety of communications in partnership with Free Agents Marketing, Bon Secours Virginia’s advertising agency. 

  

The following audio slideshow, created by Rhudy & Co., provides a quick tour and overview of the clinic.
 

About the clinic
Reinforcing Bon Secours commitment to happy, productive and healthy employees, the Good Health Clinic officially opened on Sept. 12, 2011.

It offers employees, their families, retirees and volunteers a variety of services including walk-in care for minor illness, health screenings, wellness programs, health coaching, and medication management advice. A new on-site pharmacy also makes prescriptions more convenient for employees.

The first location is a pilot and there are plans to open another clinic in the near future in Hampton Roads. Learn more.

Read an article in the Sept. 21 issue of the Richmond Times-Dispatch about the clinic.

WRIC-TV Shares How to "Strech Your Dollars" with RelayFoods.com

Watch a WRIC-TV (ABC) news segment on our client, RelayFoods.com, and learn how Richmonders are saving time and money while “breaking their big-box (store) habits. This story ran on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, in the “Streching Your Dollars” segment.

WWBT-TV Channel 12 Profiles RelayFoods.com, a Rhudy & Co. client

Richmond's NBC12 News profiled www.RelayFoods.com, a Rhudy & Co. client in Richmond and Charlottesville, on July 22, 2011.

Learn how you can make grocery shopping easier, fresher and help local farmers and small businesses at http://www.RelayFoods.com.