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The Press Trail: Royal Rentals and Royal Riches on Yahoo Finance and Bloomberg
In 2022, Royal Rentals' membership news ran on Yahoo Finance and Bloomberg, and the Royal Riches launch announcement ran on Yahoo Finance. Here's the record, with links.
Credibility is built in public. Over the years my ventures have been covered and announced in outlets that investors, partners and clients already trust. Here's the press trail, with links, so you can read the coverage for yourself.
Royal Rentals on Yahoo Finance and Bloomberg (April 2022)
On April 1, 2022, a Newsfile release titled “Royal Rentals is Providing its Customers the Opportunity to Taste the Experience of Driving Luxury Cars” was distributed and published on Yahoo Finance and in Bloomberg's press release section.
The piece introduced Royal Rentals, founded by me, as a luxury car rental company built around memberships: a way for clients to experience premium vehicles regularly without buying them. It also described the lifestyle side of the business that our best clients rely on: securing restaurant reservations, booking five-star hotel stays, organizing high-end travel and arranging experiences, supported by a team of lifestyle managers. It highlighted discretion and privacy as core to how we handle every client, and noted our service footprint across Scottsdale, Las Vegas, Charlotte and Los Angeles at the time.
That announcement captured exactly what I wanted Royal Rentals to be: not a rental counter, but a luxury access platform.
Royal Riches on Yahoo Finance (February 2022)
On February 26, 2022, a GlobeNewswire release titled “Revolution in Cryptocurrency, As Royal Riches Is Set To Launch on March 1st, 2022” was published on Yahoo Finance. It announced Royal Riches, a 2022 initiative that envisioned a digital token connected to a luxury lifestyle ecosystem: penthouse stays in Scottsdale, Las Vegas and Miami, vehicle and private aircraft experiences, private chefs and member perks.
I share it here as part of the historical record of what I was building and exploring at the time. It's past coverage of a 2022 initiative. Nothing on this site is an offer of any token, coin or digital asset, and I'm not making any claims about crypto returns.
VoyagePhoenix: the full story (April 2024)
For the most complete version of my story in someone else's words, read “Hidden Gems: Meet Zay Hampton of Royal Rentals” from VoyagePhoenix. It covers everything from starting my first landscaping company at twelve and working in the oil field at seventeen, to building my credit, moving from Pittsburgh to Charlotte in 2019, and growing Royal Rentals from ten cars to forty luxury and exotic vehicles across two cities.
Why press matters to me
I don't chase headlines for ego. I care about press because it's how strangers decide whether to trust you. When an investor, a celebrity's management team or a lifestyle firm searches my name, I want them to find a consistent record: real companies, real coverage, real results, told honestly.
I also have bigger goals. I want my work recognized at the highest levels of business media and editorial photography, and I'm building toward that the right way: one real milestone at a time, documented in public.
How to read wire coverage
Transparency matters, so here's how these pieces work. The Royal Rentals and Royal Riches items above are press releases distributed by newswire services and published on major financial platforms. The VoyagePhoenix feature is an interview. Both have value: releases document what a company announced and when, while interviews capture the story behind it. I link to the original pages so anyone doing diligence can see the source exactly as it ran.
For press and media
I'm available for interviews, podcasts, panels and features on entrepreneurship, credit and funding, luxury hospitality, exotic cars, and building globally from Scottsdale to Dubai. Reach my office at ceo@royalrentals.io.