Group Yellow pages

Groupe Yellow pages (known in English like Yellow Pages Group or YPG ) is a Canadian company specialized in the publication of printed and electronic telephone Annuaire S (in the Web). Since the end of 2005, it diversifies in the industry of the Classifieds. According to the Canadian law of the tax which supported a time the trusts of returned, the Group became property with whole share of the Fonds of returned from the Yellow pages listed out of purse: .

Description

In Canada, it is the leader in the printed directories and the Web. More large company of the kind in Canada, it provides the directories of Bell Canada, Telus and Combining.

Producing and distributing the English and French directories, it holds the registered trademarks Yellow pages and Yellow Pages . Several other companies of telephony, such SaskTel, publish their own directories and use the mark Yellow Pages under contract. The local operators often publish directories, but cannot use this brand name.

With an aim of stabilizing the operations on its share capitals, the Funds of income Yellow pages () was created. It is a Fiducie with restricted goal and variable capital nonmade up in joint stock company. The Funds indirectly holds a participation of approximately 96 % of Yellow pages Group.

Its head office is located at 16, Place du Commerce, Île of the Sisters, Verdun (Quebec) H3E 2A5, Canada.

History

As a subsidiary company of Bell Canada, it published the whole of the directories of the head office. At the beginning of the 21e century, ECB tested financial big problems and separated itself some to find the financial health. It was bought by a American Holding at the beginning of 2006 for an amount curling the three billion CAD.

It bought its principal competitor in Canada: SuperPages Canada.

In December 2005, it acquires, at the cost of 436 million CAD, the company Trader Media Corporation, the most important Ontarian editor of publications and Web sites of Classifieds.

In May 2006, it acquires the company Classified Media (Canada) Holdings for the sum of 760 million CAD, which will enable him to increase its Canadian market share with 45 %.

In August 2006, it acquires MTS Media for 281 million CAD, a printer of directories whose market is located at the Manitoba.

CanadaPlus.ca

The urban sites of the CanadaPlus.ca network are an entity belonging to Groupe Yellow pages. CanadaPlus.ca includes/understands the urban sites MontrealPlus.ca, QuebecPlus.ca, TorontoPlus.ca, CalgaryPlus.ca, EdmontonPlus.ca, OttawaPlus.ca and VancouverPlus.ca

The sites of the Yellow pages Group, including the urban sites, PageJaunes.ca, Canada411.ca and SuperPages.ca, attract more than 7 million unique visitors per month.

See too

Yellow pages

External bonds

Official site for the consumers
Official site for the investors and the advertisers

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