Free Hailo taxi credits to support safer Holiday Season
MONTREAL,
Nov. 27, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Molson
Coors Canada and Hailo, the Montreal taxi app, have today announced a deal
that will offer one million dollars
in free taxi credits to Montrealers this Holiday Season.
Throughout December, licensed establishments in
Montreal will be offering
$10 taxi credits to their customers
in order to help promote responsible celebrations. The credits can
be redeemed using the free Hailo taxi app. The partnerships with
local bars was secured with the support of Molson Coors Canada.
"We are proud to be part of this initiative for
safe holiday travel," says Sébastien Charbonneau, Director,
Corporate Affairs, Molson Coors Canada. "It's in line with our
commitment to helping consumers make responsible choices when
they're celebrating. We encourage Montrealers to take advantage of
this option for a safe ride home during the holiday season."
Launched earlier this month, Hailo is the
world's largest taxi app and enables passengers to hail and pay for
licensed Montreal taxis with just
two taps on their smartphone.
Jeff
Desruisseaux, General Manager, Hailo Montreal, added; "We're
proud to be partnering with Molson
Coors and so many of Montreal's bar and restaurant owners. We
genuinely hope the taxi offer will be shared as widely as possible
in order to help make this Montreal's safest Holiday Season yet."
The $10 taxi
credit offer, which is also available to Hailo passengers in
Toronto, will be distributed in
the form of unique promo codes available at over 85 licensed
establishments in Montreal until
midnight, December 31st.
Hailo is available as a free download from the
App Store and Google Play. Simply search for "Hailo".
For the complete list of participating bars and
restaurants, please visit
http://blog.molson.com/community/2013/11/27/avez-vous-une-portedesortie-pour-un-retour-securitaire-a-la-maison/
About Molson Coors Canada Brewing
Company
Molson Coors Brewing Company is a leading global
brewer delivering extraordinary brands that delight the world's
beer drinkers. It brews, markets and sells a portfolio of leading
premium brands such as Coors Light, Molson Canadian, Carling, Blue Moon, and Keystone Light across
The Americas, Europe and Asia. It
operates in Canada through Molson
Coors Canada; in the US through MillerCoors; and in the U.K.,
Ireland and in many Eastern Europe countries through Molson Coors Europe. Molson Coors is listed on the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index for North
America. For more information on Molson Coors Brewing
Company visit the company's Web site,www.molsoncoors.com.
About Hailo
Hailo is the evolution of the hail - a free
smartphone app which puts people just two taps away from a licensed
taxi, and lets cabbies get more passengers when they want them.
A Hailo hail is accepted around the world every
four seconds from Hailo's global network of tens of thousands of
drivers and hundreds of thousands of passengers. Launched in
November 2011, Hailo is available in
London, New York, Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Toronto, Chicago, Boston, Madrid, Barcelona, Washington DC, Osaka and Montreal. Hailo has carried seven and a half
million passengers and grown to annualized sales of well over
$100M.
Founded by three taxi drivers and three internet
entrepreneurs, Hailo has raised over $50M from the best investors anywhere, including
Union Square Ventures, Accel Partners, Wellington Partners, Atomico
Ventures and Sir Richard
Branson.
Hailo is available as a free download from the
iTunes App Store and Google Play. Simply search for "Hailo".
SOURCE Molson Coors Canada
Image with caption: "Jeff
Desruisseaux, General Manager, HAILO Montréal, Alexandre
Bamatemdera, HAILO taxi driver, and Sébastien Charbonneau,
Director, Corporate Affairs, Molson
Coors during the announcement of the Molson Coors Canada
1 million dollar donation in taxi
credits to Montrealers this Holiday Season (CNW Group/Molson Coors
Canada)". Image available at:
http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20131127_C5623_PHOTO_EN_33971.jpg