Pages Jaunes, in France, has acquired Austrian-based people search engine 123People.
The article I link to repeats speculation that the acquisition price was between 10 and 15 million Euros ($13 to $20 million).
This is part of a larger emerging trend of yellow pages publishers acquiring third party sites or launching non-YP branded sites. As I’ve tried to argue in the past, YP publishers should now thing of themselves as “local holding companies,” with a range of brands and properties to address different audiences and use cases.
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March 27, 2010 at 2:33 pm
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May 11, 2010 at 8:04 am
Normally, acquisitions are meant to expand the scope of services, area wide or even service wide. With a search for people website, it is more of available information and consolidating features of two merging entities. Merging should be of good purpose but there are times that a merge is viewed as hostile, where the bigger company just meant to close down the smaller one.
September 7, 2010 at 2:50 am
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March 11, 2012 at 5:40 pm
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