iGrad Partners with Dot Foods to Provide Financial Wellness Education to 2,500

Employees

Dot Foods rolled out Enrich's white label financial wellness platform in June, calling it “Money
Matters” and promoting it to 2,500 headquarter employees via social media, company intranet,
emails, direct mail and more. More than 300 employees have already started participating.

San Diego, CA, October 22, 2019 --(PR.com)-- Leading financial education company iGrad has
partnered with Dot Foods to offer its award-winning financial wellness platform to 2,500 employees at
the food industry redistributor's headquarters in Mt. Sterling, Ill.

Dot Foods rolled out the white label Enrich financial wellness platform in June, calling it “Money
Matters” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cQpy3Xyn6Q&feature=youtu.be) and promoting it to
employees via social media, the company intranet, emails, direct mail and more. More than 300
employees have already started participating.

“Our goal is to empower employees to prepare for their future by making smart money decisions every
day,” said Chelsea Reed, Dot Foods benefits strategy manager. “We want them to realize that financial
wellness is just as important as physical wellness--the two are intertwined. If you don't take control of
your finances, they will control you.”

Employees are more stressed by financial matters than all other sources of stress combined, according to
PwC's 2019 Employee Financial Wellness Survey. Nearly 60 percent of more than 1,600 adults surveyed
in January named financial challenges as the primary stressor in their lives, far exceeding the cumulative
total of employees attributing the most stress to jobs (15 percent), relationships (12 percent) and health
(10 percent).

The first-year goal, which has already been exceeded, is to have at least 10 percent of Dot Foods
employees using Money Matters and other facets of the company's financial wellness initiative, including
group training sessions and private consultations with a financial planner.

Enrich is used by more than 12,000 employers and financial institutions nationwide to provide holistic
financial wellness education and personalized action plans to employees and customers.

“Studies show that employees are more stressed than ever about finances, which is proven to lower
productivity while increasing absenteeism and health problems,” said iGrad founder and President Rob
LaBreche. “Not only that, Baby Boomers are not financially prepared to retire and say they will be
working much longer than expected. This has serious ramifications for the country and economy as a
whole.”

Recognized with the 2019 Eddy Award for Financial Wellness by Pensions & Investments, Enrich offers
adaptive, interactive financial education content on topics including student loan debt, mortgages,
retirement, long-term health care and more.

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About iGrad
iGrad is a San Diego-based private company that offers financial wellness solutions to more than 600
colleges and universities, more than 12,000 employers and more than 300 financial institutions. iGrad
was recently recognized, along with the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), with the Power
of A Gold Award by the American Society of Association Executives for its APTA Financial Solutions
Center. iGrad also received the 2019 Eddy Award for Financial Wellness by Pensions & Investments for
its Enrich platform. For more information about the iGrad platform, visit http://schools.igrad.com. For
more information about the Enrich platform for employers and financial institutions, visit
https://www.enrich.org/

About Dot Foods

Dot Foods, Inc. carries 131,000 products from 1,040 food industry manufacturers making it the largest
food industry redistributor in North America. Through Dot Transportation Inc., an affiliate of Dot Foods,
the company distributes foodservice, convenience, retail and vending products to distributors in all 50
states and 39 countries. Dot Foods operates 11 U. S. distribution centers, which are located in Modesto,
California; Vidalia, Georgia; Burley, Idaho; Mt. Sterling, Illinois; Cambridge City, Indiana; Williamsport,
Maryland; Liverpool, New York; Ardmore, Oklahoma; Dyersburg, Tennessee; University Park, Illinois;
and Bullhead City, Arizona. A twelfth facility is currently under construction in Bear, Delaware. Dot
Foods' Canadian operations are located in Toronto, Ontario and Calgary, Alberta. For information, visit
https://www.dotfoods.com/

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Contact Information:
iGrad / Enrich
Jennifer Wezensky
269-274-4071
Contact via Email
http://www.enrich.org

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