FedEx Awards ‘Fat Toad Farm’ Small Business Grant
March 25 2014 - 09:00AM
Business Wire
Brookfield, Vermont-based Fat Toad Farm wins
second-annual contest
Fat Toad Farm, a small business specializing in hand-crafted
goat’s milk caramel sauces, has been announced the winner of the
second-annual FedEx Small Business Grant Contest. Fat Toad Farm,
which is based in Brookfield, Vermont, will receive a $25,000 grant
to put toward its business and growth plan.
Vermont based Fat Toad Farm named the
grand prize winner of the second-annual FedEx Small Business Grant
Contest (Photo: Business Wire)
Now in its second year, the FedEx Small Business Grant Contest
attracted more than 5,000 entries and garnered more than 1.4
million votes.
“The outstanding quality of entrants again this year is
indicative of the passion, commitment and creativity required by
small business owners every day,” said Rebecca A. Huling, vice
president of Customer Engagement Marketing. “Small businesses have
always played a large role in the FedEx customer community, and we
are proud to be a part of their continued success through the FedEx
Small Business Grant Contest.”
Fat Toad Farm is a small, family owned and operated goat dairy
in Vermont specializing in hand-crafted goat’s milk caramel sauces.
Husband and wife team Steve Reid and Judith Irving created the
business with their daughter Calley Hastings, following an
old-fashioned business model based on close family ties, their
food, their animals, their land and their local community. The
business has great potential and plans to use the grant to improve
their caramel production facility. Further, they would like to
upgrade their IT platforms and streamline their order intake,
fulfillment and shipping services.
In addition to the $25,000 grand prize, FedEx awarded four
first-place grants of $5,000 each and five second-place grants of
$1,000 each to the following small businesses:
- A Real Treat Candy Boutique
- Mushmina
- Pig of the Month BBQ
- Marked
- A Little Bundle
- Dream Beard
- Pi-bytes
- SARTONK
- Teacher Lee Play-To-Learn
Preschool
The FedEx Small Business Grant Contest offers significant
opportunity for small businesses to gain nationwide recognition,
and encourages local communities to rally behind them at the same
time. Last year’s grant winner, Nicole Snow of Darn Good Yarn, said
that her business has doubled since winning the grant contest and
has allowed her to begin exporting as far as Australia.
Small businesses applied for the grant by answering a few
questions about their business and uploading photos to represent
their story on the FedEx Small Business Grant Contest website.
During a five-week voting period, applicants asked their customers,
friends and family to vote for their business. FedEx selected the
top 100 finalists based on their compelling business stories and
other factors, including the number of votes received. Round two
asked the top 100 finalists to complete a short essay, which was
reviewed by a FedEx committee.
FedEx . . . Solutions that MatterSM for Small
Businesses
The FedEx portfolio of services allows small businesses to gain
access to the global marketplace and to shipping, logistics and
printing solutions. FedEx has recently introduced two new
options that make shipping even easier for small business
customers, including:
- FedEx One RateSM, a U.S.-based
flat-rate shipping option that combines simplified, predictable
pricing with the same reliable delivery and excellent service
customers expect from FedEx.
- FedEx Delivery ManagerSM, a service
which allows U.S. package recipients to customize home deliveries
to fit their schedule.
For more information on how FedEx helps small businesses, please
visit the FedEx Small Business Center at
fedex.com/us/small-business.
About FedEx Corp.
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) provides customers and businesses
worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and
business services. With annual revenues of $45 billion, the company
offers integrated business applications through operating companies
competing collectively and managed collaboratively, under the
respected FedEx brand. Consistently ranked among the world's most
admired and trusted employers, FedEx inspires its more than 300,000
team members to remain "absolutely, positively" focused on safety,
the highest ethical and professional standards and the needs of
their customers and communities. For more information, visit
news.fedex.com.
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FedEx Media RelationsGretchen Mathis,
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