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Les Affaires and QuebecCommerce.com join in providing
an interactive service for the sale and purchase of businesses
and companies
Montreal, September 6, 2005 - Les Affaires, LesAffaires.com
and QuebecCommerce.com today announced an exclusive agreement
to provide a new Web-based service to help locate businesses
and companies for sale. Available at www.lesaffaires.com/carrefourpme/,
this new service gives small and medium-size companies the
opportunity to advertise their businesses for sale both
on the Web and in Les Affaires for less than $100
per issue.
Jean-Paul Gagné, publisher of Les Affaires,
says “this agreement enables us to raise the visibility
of businesses for sale in Quebec. It also helps speed up
the selling process by offering a window on the combined
newspaper and Internet market and to increase sales potential
among buyers. The integration of the QuebecCommerce site
with LesAffaires.com is already allowing us to offer
information on more than 800 businesses that are up for
sale across Quebec.”
Yves Daoust, general manager of new media at Transcontinental
Media, says “the addition of this service to the Carrefour
PME section rounds out our offering to small and medium
companies and to business intermediaries. The visibility
of Les Affaires combined with the interactive nature
of Web searches provides unique advantages to anyone wanting
to sell a business. The site already contains information
on businesses that are for sale in several sectors such
as the restaurant business, the retail trade, specialized
services, and so on.”
Marc Suidan, president of QuebecCommerce.com, says “this
partnership helps create the largest electronic marketplace
for small businesses. By joining Les Affaires and
Carrefour PME, we are confident we can offer to small business
owners who wish to sell and to investors looking for business
opportunities, a unique service that is quick and effective.”
About Les Affaires and LesAffaires.com
The weekly newspaper Les Affaires is the top information
source on business and financial news for Quebec decision-makers
– managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, financiers,
etc…- with 374,000 readers per week, according to
the Print Measurement Bureau.
Lesaffaires.com is Quebec’s leading business website.
It is produced by Les Affaires, Quebec decision-makers’
paper. The site draws more than 300,000 unique visitors
per month. LesAffaires.com and Les Affaires newspaper
are products of Transcontinental Media.
About Transcontinental Media
The fourth largest print media group in Canada, with
more than 3000 employees and annual revenues of $524 million
in 2004, Transcontinental Media is the country’s leading
publisher of consumer magazines and the largest publisher
of community newspapers in Eastern Canada. This subsidiary
of Transcontinental Inc. also publishes the weekday daily
Métro in Montreal. It is also, through Publi-Sac,
Quebec’s leading door-to-door distributor of advertising
material. Transcontinental Media is a subsidiary of Transcontinental
Inc. whose shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
under the ticker symbols TCL.SV.A and TCL.MV.B.
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For further information, please contact:
Yves Daoust
Transcontinental Media
Consumer Publications
General Manager New Media
1100 René-Lévesque Blvd. West, 24th Floor
Montreal, Qc H3B 4X9
Tel.: 514 392-2003, Fax: (514) 392-4726, (cell.: 514 233-9839)
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