The Sweden-based local search company Eniro has acquired some of the assets of De Gule Sider in Denmark, the Yellow Pages operation closed down recently by European Directories.
EDSA has made the decision to discontinue print directories in Denmark, where it held the incumbent position, while selling many of its online/mobile assets to Eniro. Among the …

Seems every year is a year of transformation in the global Yellow Pages industry. This year is no different, with more leadership changes, financial turmoil, and a much more aggressive push into new strategies and new products. There is a growing sense that some directory publishers are turning in a direction where a return to …

Last week several of the leading listed directory companies saw sizable spikes in their stock prices following their Q3 earnings announcements, though the surge seems to have died off today.
For example, Dex One announced its earnings on Nov. 3. On the call, CEO Alfred Mockett revealed that Dex will not achieve its previously stated goal of …

What does digital transformation truly look like? And how far along the path to a new revenue model are directional publishers? Those questions were front and center at DMS ’11, as Dex One Chief Strategy Officer David Sharman, YP New Zealand CEO Scott Pomeroy and Local Search Association President Neg Norton debated “the future of …

Two signficant leadership changes have occurred in the global Yellow Pages industry over the past few days. In Canada, Yellow Media CFO Christian Paupe has resigned to “pursue other interests.” His departure is effective immediately.
Yellow Media, a leading print and online advertising company in Canada, has been taking some heat of late over its debt, …

Yellow Pages has yielded the top spot for local business lookups to search engines like Google and Bing, but it still holds a significant spot in the local search hierarchy, according to new data released today by the Local Search Association.
The latest “Local Media Tracking Study” shows that search engines rank higher than Yellow Pages (print and …

The Local Search Association filed suit today against the City and County of San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors, and Mayor Edwin Lee asking the U.S. District Court to overturn the city’s recently passed opt-in ordinance. The suit claims that the city’s rationale for the ordinance is unconstitutional on the grounds that it is “arbitrary” and …

 
2010 was a dismal year for the New Zealand branch of Deutsche Bank after exposure to the Yellow Pages Group restructuring. The KPMG Financial Institutions Performance Survey issued last week shows that Deutsche ranked at the bottom out of 10 New Zealand branch banks on key measures, including a $53 million loss for the financial year, …

Yesterday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed the opt-in ordinance that the Yellow Pages industry had vigorously opposed. Immediately following the vote, the Local Search Association (formerly the Yellow Pages Association) called on San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee to veto the ordinance. The ordinance passed 10-1 but formal passage must wait until a routine …

The Yellow Pages industry has failed to win a preliminary injunction or restraining order from a U.S. District Court in Seattle. This mean the Seattle opt-out ordinance can move forward as the industry pursues its lawsuit seeking to have the ordinance ruled unconstitutional. This decision doesn’t mean the lawsuit will fail, but it does seem to suggest victory is not …

The recent implosion of TMP has led to the creation of a new digital agency called, aptly enough, 2nd Act Local Marketing. Its founders are Gregg Stewart, Will Foust and Steve Haar, all veterans of 15miles, the digital advertising agency arm of TMP.
We recently reported on the demise of TMP, once the overwhelming leader in the …

Crushed by a “perfect storm” of debt and declining revenues, TMP, once the dominant player in the Yellow Pages agency (CMR) space, will cease to exist within a few days. However, we have learned that several of the agency’s more valuable local offices and their associated clients have been sold off to rival agencies.
According to one …

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that AT&T Interactive will join the growing list of directory companies to launch a daily deal site. AT&T Interactive CEO David Krantz told The Journal that he believes AT&T could be “fast followers” and that there is still ample opportunity in the daily deals space, initially popularized by …

Following a discussion of its 2010 full-year results, Dex One’s leadership team outlined a new strategy today that it says will restore the company to positive revenue growth by the second half of 2012, with print stabilizing to single-digit declines.
One of the key elements will be the Dex Guaranteed Actions, a performance-based model tested beginning …

Yellow Pages Group New Zealand has agreed to surrender Internet domain names associated with one of its competitors, which sued YPG for trademark infringement.
The suit was brought by the Localist, a local online directory competitor owned by the New Zealand Post newspaper group. The Localist alleged that YPG NZ acquired domains such as www.localist.co.nz and …

The French directory publisher PagesJaunes has joined the growing list of global Yellow Pages companies that are building or buying their way into the deal-a-day space. PagesJaunes has acquired the French group buying site top-deals.fr, and has rebranded the product as 123deal to be consistent with its 123people online people search brand.
We recently reported that …

According to the Australian media news site mUmBRELLA, Sensis has soft-launched a daily deals product called Yellow Pages Offers that is currently live in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. There has been no formal launch, but the site has reportedly been operating since December.
This move puts Sensis in the game popularized by Groupon, LivingSocial and others. …

The City of Seattle has modified its tough Yellow Pages opt-out ordinance, but apparently not sufficiently to make a federal lawsuit challenging the ordinance go away. The city has eliminated a $148 per ton fee for Yellow Pages deliveries in Seattle. A $0.14 per copy “advance recovery fee” remains in the ordinance.
The Yellow Pages Association’s …

Local Insight Media President and CEO Scott Pomeroy has resigned, effective Friday. Pomeroy was replaced as interim CEO by Scott Brubaker, a director at the turnaround firm Alvarez & Marsal, and since October 2010, LIM’s chief restructuring officer. This move comes just a few months after LIM filed for Chapter 11 in an effort to …

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Independent Publishers Texting for Dollars
Is a Legal Exodus Looming?

Big Thinker Cellini Returns to Yellow

Telnic Lands Macau Yellow Pages

SuperMedia Mixes Up …