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For press or media inquiries, please contact Sameera Banduk at pr[at]well.ca or 519-489-7185 x229

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Awards

• PROFIT HOT 50: Canada’s Emerging Growth Companies
• KPMG & Backbone Magazine Pick 20 Web 2.0 Award
• IDC Ten Canadian Healthcare Solutions to Watch
• Canadian Angel Capital Top 10 Companies Recognized - National Angel Capital Organization
• Ontario Angel Capital Top 5 Companies Recognized - National Angel Capital Organization
• Ali Asaria, 40 Under 40 Making a Difference - Guelph Mercury

Media

• National Post: The new store front
• Financial Post: Angels flexing their wings
• The Agenda with Steve Paikin
• Wall Street Journal: Site Adopts Crowd-Sourcing to Link Start-Ups, Investors
• Globe and Mail: Ten best small business stories of the week
• Globe and Mail: A case study on luring investment angels
• CTV.ca: A case study on luring investment angels
• AllBusiness.com: Well.ca Emulates Zappos Model for Social Media and Customer Service
• Internet Retailer: More diapers, please
• Globe and Mail: Monday Morning Manager
• CTV.ca: Healthy Circulation
• Plaisirs Sante: Traitement choc pour cheveux abimes
• Exchange Magazine: Communitech Opens New Office in Cambridge, Ontario
• Insights with Terri Coutts: Radio Interview with Well.ca
• Best Health Magazine: 10 Healthy Super Bowl Snacks
• Red Canary: Customer Focus and Geek Cred - An Interview with Well.ca
• The Record: Web entrepreneurs told to “just do it.”
• The Record: Entrepreneur Week Celebrates Pioneers, Swashbucklers
• Technology Spotlight (By The Record): Well.ca Finds Secret to Online Success
• Canada Post Magazine: Well Worth It
• Financial Post: Secure Online Payment Systems Open Doors
• Best Health Magazine: 5 hand sanitizers to try
• Homemakers: 10 trusty shampoos (and 9 conditioners) less than $10
• Best Health Magazine: Your guide to healthy breasts
• Best Health Magazine: 6 things that will help you sleep
• Homemakers: 10 best nail polishes for less than $12
• Best Health Magazine: 10 beauty classics worth revisiting
• Movie Entertainment: Paying Lip Service
• FASHION: Word to you mothers: The best eco-baby products
• Homemakers: 12 best lip glosses for $10 or less
• Globe and Mail: Well.ca set to expand with new investment
• Globe and Mail: 5 tips for building an ebusiness
• Best Health Magazine: Get It Together
• Globe and Mail: Thoughts from the front lines
• Marketing Magazine: Web savvy Canadians still wary of web shopping: study
• IT World Canada: Show shipping charges upfront
• Guelph Mercury: Swine flu hits closer to home
• FASHION: Guelph: It’s easy being green
• Sympatico/MSN Tech & Gadgets: New generation of entrepreneurs heads to Internet to sell their wares online
• Drugstore Canada Magazine: Frontshop{dot}com
• 570 News: Dream come true for former RIM employee
• Globe and Mail: Ali Asaria on standing out online
• Globe and Mail: Some things come for free
• Financial Post: Gen Y’s financial entourage
• Financial Post: Lean times for tech startups
• Toronto Star: Peter Gorrie’s Gift Suggestions
• Business Times: Online drugstore
• LOULOU Magazine: LOULOU Deals
• Guelph Mercury: Ali Asaria, 40 Under 40 Making a Difference
• Waterloo Record: Investing in People
• Guelph Mercury: Guelph software developer operating online drugstore
• Toronto Sun: Darts to the hearts
• Toronto Sun: Many guys are still too bashful to pony up for their prophylactics
• REX Magazine: Doing well online

Blogs

• Gifted: Well.ca
• National Angel Capital Organization: The Agenda with Steve Paikin
• Coco & Lowe: All I want for Christmas… Paige from Well.ca
• TheNextWeb Canada: 10 Canadian Startups You Should Know About
• miniBizweb: All the good ones are already taken. 5 tips to name your domain
• The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Building a Culture of Risk
• Daily Rio Life: My new favorite online shopping site…
• marketing in a social age: How Ali Asaria uses social to succeed
• Techvibes: How Ali Asaria built Well.ca into Canada’s largest online health & beauty store
• Sprouter Blog: How Ali Asaria built Well.ca into Canada’s largest online health & beauty store
• NextMontreal: iNovia Invests in Well.ca
  
• Techvibes: Well.ca attracts $2.3 million in latest round of angel financing
• TheNextWeb Canada: Could Well.ca become Amazon North?
• StartupNorth: Well.ca continues plans of world domination
• SOHO: SOHO interviews Ali Asaria, CEO and Founder of Well.ca
• A Funkaoshi Production: TechTalksTO with Ali
• Bottin Dejouer les allergies: Boutique en ligne Well.ca
• C100: Look who’s coming to 48 Hours in the Valley this Fall!
• LUUUX: Free Shipping on Well.ca..
• Freshbooks Blog: The Next TechTalksTO - Ali Asaria
• Communitech: What defines a great company? Ali from Well.ca
• Look who’s coming to 48 Hours in the Valley this Fall!
• LUUUX: Free Shipping on Well.ca
• Michael Holtstrom: Buying Stuff
• TechRepeat: Well.ca founder talks about finding angel investments
• Digital Puck: Canada’s Start-Up CEO Speaker Series
• Scarlett Lounge: Fall Into The New Eco-Beauty
• The Social Media Handy Man, Paul Chaney: Well.ca Emulates Zappos Model for Social Media and Customer Service
• Scarlett Lounge: We’re Pregnant - Second Trimester!
• Dance as if no one’s watching: An Incredible Website
• Sweetspot.ca SweetMama: Top 10 Father’s Day Gifts
• Sweetspot.ca Sweetlife Blog: Top 10 Sunscreens
• Anna and Kristina Bag Blog: Favorite Places - Health & Beauty: Well.ca
• Techvibes: Well.ca Founder on grow your business with strategic alliances
• The RIC Blog: Cultivating Strategic Alliances
• Velocity: How to Build Lean with Ali Asaria
• Marie-Eve: No Suffering, Promised, Resources
• The RIC Blog: Cultivating Strategic Alliances
• Canadian Family, Family Jewels Blog: Why I Love Shopping Online
• Yoyo Mama: Quash Those Bugs
• Beautygeeks: F is for Fast Lane
• Babes Junction: Haul Online Drugstore (Well.ca)
• Body Soul and Spirit: Getting Back on Track Part Four
• Fit For A Shopaholic: Tip of the Day
• Sweetspot.ca Sweetlife Blog: Weekly Finds
• Sweetspot.ca Sweetlife Blog: On the Run
• Lucialicious: Well.ca - Canadian Online Drugstore
• Sweetspot.ca Sweetlife Blog: Colour Guard
• FASHION DIARIES Blog: Clean up your act with our Green Beauty Guide
• Babies and Bulldogs: The New Well.ca
• award tour: Amazon in Canada
• Beautygeeks: F is for Fuzzy: Airplus Aloe Infused Ultra Moisturizing Socks
• Sweetspot.ca Sweetlife Blog: The Sweetest Things
• Fireside Chats with Fiery Entrepreneurs: How Ali Asaria built one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies
• Listen to Lena: Diapers Now Available at Well.ca
• SuperCaliFragilistic: Now I’m Ready to Shop
• The Cheap Girl: The Best Online Destination for Make up, Skin Care, and Cosmetics
• Soon to be Myself: Inquietudes et Compagnie
• Listen to Lena: Way Back Playback
• Techvibes: Digital Media People to Watch in Ontario in 2010
• Canadian Family, Family Jewels Blog: The Best Vitamin D Supplement for Babies
• FASHION DIARIES Blog: The Daily Steal
• Voucher Codes: Well.ca Facebook Promotion
• Waterloo Tech TV Video: Big Picture Day - Ali Asaria, Well.ca
• Flourish: Cosmetics - Online Shopping
• Open Forum: Do Payment Plans Give You Street Creds?
• adventures of a suburban princess: Well.ca
• Communitech Team Blog: Bomb Diggity: What defines a great company? Ali from Well.ca
• Scarlett Lounge: Holiday Guide
• Tech Capital Partners: Not a waste of time…
• make-up artistrhi blog: Product Review Revlon
• Techvibes: PEER 1 Kitchener-Waterloo Startup Index
• DavidCrow.ca: Bright Lights, Big Names
• Jabbering Jessi: Well.ca Review and Giveaway
• FASHION DIARIES Blog: The Daily Steal
• Listen to Lena: Well.ca: Shop with Your Debit Card!
• Letter From Virgil: Canadians Can Compete-Yes We Can!
• National Angel Capital Organization: Congratulations to Well.ca on a Successful Private Financing Round!
• Mark Evans: Five Questions With Well.ca’s Ali Asaria
• The Post Money Value: Well.Ca: Nice (and Smart) Guys Do Get Ahead
• TechFinance.ca: Online Retailer Well.ca Closes New Round of Growth Financing
• Techvibes: Well.ca get well funded by Angels
• StartupNorth: Well.ca raises a new round, continues to grow
• Mark Evans: All’s Well With Well.ca
• Listen to Lena: Spotted: Salon Selectives!
• Good Baby Stuff: Well.ca offers free shipping anywhere in Canada, on all items
• My Money Journey: Cool site for Canadians!
• BeautyEditor.ca: Exclusive Pre-Sale! | Maybelline Pulse Perfection Vibrating Mascara
• miss.erica: Well.ca is too awesome!
• MaRS Blog: IDC names “Ten Canadian Healthcare Solutions to Watch”
• BeautyEditor.ca: It’s now officially easy being green
• RedFlagDeals.com: Well.ca Launched a New Green & Natural Section
• ecochick: Well.ca Green Store Launch
• ChickAdvisor: Shop eco on Earth Day
• buyCanadianfirst.ca: My eco-friendly cleaning tips
• make-up artistrhi blog: NOTE | Beauty Deals
• NEBS NEWS: Savvy entrepreneurs use web to build business
• beautygeeks: The Good Ship Free: Dock at Well.ca Online Drugstore
• Techvibes: Well.ca: A great Domain Name and a Blue Ocean
• Allentrepreneur: Well.ca CEO & Founder Ali Asaria Tells Us Why It Pays To Be Nice
• M.A.C.: Finally a Canadian website!
• How Many Words Are There For Cold?: The greatest discovery up here since Gold.
• Smart Canucks: Free shipping at Well.ca (Canadian Drugstore)
• Tales from the Arctic: I can breathe!
• in a nutshell: Well.ca
• Storsy: Excellent Deals for Skincare and Beauty Products
• ChickAdvisor: Free Shipping With Well.ca
• RedFlagDeals.com: Well.ca: Free Shipping on Every Order, Good Selection of Cosmetics, Vitamins & More
• StartupNorth: Well.ca announces free shipping
• WatTF?: Customer Service Alive and Well(.ca)
• RedFlagDeals.com: Profile and Reviews of Well.ca
• SavvyMom: The Savvy Five: Sunscreens
• Communitech Team Blog: Well.ca raises angel funding
• StartupNorth: Funded Well.ca
• Jen of Nunavut: HTTP://WELL.CA
  
• RedFlagDeals.com: Well.ca: Your Online Drugstore Offers A Huge Selection and $3 (or Free!) Shipping
• StartupNorth: Doing Well.ca
• MapleLeaf 2.0: Well, Well, Well.ca Finally Launches
• jules dot ca: Just the Kick that Shoppers Needs
• Killer Startups: Well.ca - Canada’s Online Drugstore
• Killer Startups: “Well.ca is like your dream drugstore…”

Press Releases

• September 8, 2009: Well.ca makes PROFIT HOT 50 list of Canada’s Emerging Growth Companies (pdf)
• July 30, 2009: Healthy Growth Nets Online Retailer Well.ca $1.1 Million Private Financing
• March 31, 2009: Canada’s Largest Online Health and Beauty Store Helps Canadians Get Green (pdf)
• June 19, 2008: Online Drugstore Bridges the Distances of this Country: Well.ca Provides Needed Health Supplies to Canadians in Remote and Rural Areas (pdf)
• April 17, 2008: Well.ca Partners with Maple Leaf Angels to Solidify its Leadership in Canada’s Online Drugstore Market (pdf)