Qwest Dex generated approximately $1.6 billion in revenue in 2001 and Qwest expected to gain up to $10 billion from the sale.
Qwest Communications decided to sell its directory businesses to offset rising debt and losses. When US West and Qwest Communications International merged in 2000, the directory business was renamed once again, to Qwest Dex. In 1996, US West launched a new brand, US West Dex, using a man with a magnifying glass as the identifying Dex character. When Mountain Bell took the name US West, Mountain Bell Yellow Pages became US West Direct. Justice Department divided AT&T into seven Regional Bell Operating Companies in 1984. A century later, as part of AT&T, the company became Mountain Bell Yellow Pages when the U.S. originated as a regional publisher of the Yellow Pages, with operations beginning in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1881. Forming the Company in 2002 to Acquire Former AT&T Directory Publisherĭex Media, Inc. In addition to providing search capacity for the content of business advertisements, accesses more than 15 million basic business listings and 200 million residential listings nationwide. Dex publishes CD-ROM directories and its Internet Yellow Pages directory is available at. Dex publishes bilingual, English-Spanish directories for more than 20 markets. Available in major metropolitan cities, On-the-Go directories feature maps, shopping and entertainment guides, as well as telephone and address information for central city businesses. In addition to the standard directories, Dex publishes an On-the-Go directory, a nine-inch by six-inch directory designed to be kept in automobiles. Independent directories, in markets not served by Qwest, are published and distributed in El Paso, Texas, and Lincoln, Nebraska. Although the directories are distributed for free, income is derived from more than 400,000 local businesses and 4,000 national advertising accounts. Dex distributes the directories in 14 states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. is the official publisher of telephone directory white pages and yellow pages for Qwest Communications. NAIC: 511140 Directory and Mailing List Publishersĭex Media, Inc. "It also allows for a one-on-one relationship between the supplier and their customer," she adds.Sales: $1.63 billion (2003, includes West Predecessor revenue)
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"We`ve created a service that is simple to use," adds Christine Thomson, a director at Ezee-Dex Online Services, explaining that because the service is hosted the supplier does not need to install any new software in order to use the service. Its most important feature is an online ordering mechanism allowing customers to purchase items directly from an online product catalogue and price list. "We felt that there was no single product available that answered all of our customers` requirements," explains McIntosh.Ĭompanies can now develop their company Web site into a self-contained online shop. The service was developed locally after extensive research into products currently available yielded no single product that satisfied suppliers` requirements, and is based on Microsoft technology. "This is also the first truly South African Web-based trading system locally engineered and designed for our specific requirements." We believe that this provides a cost-effective way for companies to increase their profits through improved sales," says Lizette McIntosh, Ezee-Dex Sell consultant at Ezee-Dex. "Ezee-Dex Sell will extend the services that are currently offered enabling a customer to buy directly from any enabled suppliers` Web site where the Authorised To Sell icon appears. Ezee-Dex has a customer base of over 600 suppliers with searchable Web catalogues mainly in the industrial and engineering fields, and has created the best used and most extensive procurement information source for procurement managers with 42 000 companies listed and 200 000 products catalogued.Įzee-Dex has also become the preferred source of information for international companies sourcing products and services from SA, and 50% of its visitors to the company`s Web site are from abroad. Ezee-Dex Online Services today announced the availability of a new online trading solution, Ezee-Dex Sell, which allows suppliers to easily create online buying points for their customers on the Internet.Įzee-Dex Online Services has already launched the locally-developed solution developed in response to a need articulated by suppliers who said they lacked the tools to sell their goods and services easily over the Internet.
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