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356:, primarily to profit from advertising, but residents who did not use them were noted to simply throw them away at the expense of the city and the environment, prompting YPG to include recycling tips in newer editions. Yellow Pages Canada still prints and publishes phone books as of 2024, but they are notably rarer and slimmer, and are largely sustained by elderly customers and advertising revenue. 29: 301:, with deliveries only being resumed on request. Most customers there were urged to use the online Yellow Pages directories instead. Through 2011 and 2012, YPG lost 90% of their share value, prompting a major restructuring toward digital marketing that saw shares triple in value but also led to several layoffs. In 2015, YPG's phone book delivery cuts expanded to include 393:
services, which allegedly failed to achieve high placements on search engine results, and in some cases did not bring website traffic at all, yet still demanded large payments by locking them into contracts and threatening them with lawsuits and collection notices, which continued well into 2019 and
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phone books across Canada, into the 21st century YPG has primarily shifted to digital marketing services, though they also operate the YellowPages.ca local business search engine and Canada411 online phone directory, and still print phone books on a limited basis to some customers as of 2024.
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and the Ontario Teachers' Merchant Bank acquired control of Yellow Pages Group, with Bell Canada retaining 10% ownership. In August 2003, YPG had its
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In 2010, YPG announced that, based on urban customer habits and the decline of phone books as a result of the internet and
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By 2018, Yellow Pages phone books were still being printed for customers in
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lawsuit in Quebec against YPG involving thousands of small businesses.
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In 2010, YPG acquired Vancouver-based Canpages for $ 225 million.
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reported that small business owners were disappointed with YPG's
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Canadian telephone directory publisher and digital marketing firm
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Yellow Pages Canada was established in 1908 as a division of
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which raised over $ 1 billion, and established YPG as an
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telephone directory
publisher
digital marketing
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yellow pages
Quebec
Ontario
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Alberta
British Columbia
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Atlantic Canada
Saskatchewan
Bell Canada
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initial public offering
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Toronto Stock Exchange
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