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2009

Dealer.com sells 20 percent of company for $35M to Montreal media company

Fri Jan 23 2009
Related Company: Dealer.com, Inc.
MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Jan. 20, 2009) - Trader Corporation (Trader), the vertical media business of Yellow Pages Income Fund (TSX:YLO.UN), announced today it has entered into a strategic agreement with Burlington, Vermont-based Dealer.com (www.Dealer.com) that will deliver a suite of marketing technology solutions to Canada's new and used vehicle industry.

Trader and Dealer.com have signed a long-term, exclusive commercial agreement making Dealer.com's web solutions available to Trader's extensive customer base in Canada served under its AutoTraderTM brand. Concurrent with the commercial agreement, Trader will also take a 20 per cent equity interest in Dealer.com for US$35 million, with the option to increase its ownership in the privately held company over time ...

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2008

Ping pong, lattes, plants, OH MY!

Published: January 18th, 2008
Written By: Eva Sollberger, Seven Days Stuck In Vermont Columnist
Description: Dealer.com is a VT company that recently expanded into plush new digs and is hiring a young, technically savvy workforce.  
There has been lots of talk lately about young people leaving Vermont in search of better paid, high tech jobs - does Dealer.com offer a ray of hope?   more >>>

2007

Dealer.com Is a Finalist

Published: April 2007
Written By: Dealer Magazine
Description: Bonfigli regional 'Entrepreneur of the Year' finalist - Dealer.com, a leading provider of online marketing solutions for the automotive industry, announced that its founder, president and CEO, Mark Bonfigli, has been named a finalist in the highly prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the New England region. The award recognizes leaders who create and build leading businesses, contribute to the strength of their communities and the economy, and help raise the bar of business excellence.  more >>>

Dealer.com's fateful meeting

Published: May 14 2007
Written By: Dan McLean, Burlington Free Press Staff Writer
Description: If Michael Lane hadn't gone to Earth Cars Inc. in Williston to purchase a Volkswagen Jetta about a decade ago, Dealer.com -- the rapidly expanding Burlington-based Web solutions firm -- might not exist today. more>>>

HITEC Places Apprentices

Published: March 30th, 2007
Written By: Dan McLean, Burlington Free Press Staff Writer
Description: HITEC places apprentices at Fletcher Allen   Fletcher Allen Health Care celebrated 15 newly trained health care support apprentices Thursday.  The apprentices, who ranged from 18 to 50 years old, officially started employment at the hospital on Monday as full-time hospital staffers after completing eight weeks of training with the Vermont Healthcare and Information Technology Education Center Inc., or Vermont HITEC ... more >>>

Vermont Dot COMs 

Published: February 2007
Written By: Art Edelstein, Vermont Business Magazine
Description: Internet only companies thrive in online environment   While Governor Jim Douglas and the Vermont Legislature debate how to best bring broadband Internet connections to all of the state, a goal he has set for 2010, several Vermont companies say they are already thriving as online only businesses ... more >>>

2006

Dealer.com 

Website:  www.dealer.com
Published: November 2006
Written By: The Auto Channel
Description: Dealer.com Named "Coolest Company" by Interface Tech News · BURLINGTON, Vt.--Dealer.com, a leading provider of eMarketing solutions that increase online sales and marketing effectiveness for auto dealerships, announced today that it was named a “Coolest Company” by Interface Tech News in the 2006 Technologist’s Technology Guide. Dealer.com was one of three companies honored in its category and the only Vermont-based company to be recognized ... more>>>

2005

Renaissance Information Systems 

Website:  http://www.reninfosys.com
Published: December 2005
Written By: Virginia Lindauer Simmon, Business People Vermont
Description: Getting With the Program · A cross-country bike trek opened the door for Carl Lorentson to make a major shift in his life ... more>>>

Bluehouse Group 

Website: www.bluehousegroup.com
Published: October 2005
Written By: Virginia Lindauer Simmon, Business People Vermont
Description: These guys play in the traffic at the intersection of creativity and technology · There is probably a good reason why a passionate fly fisherman with a background in psychology has found success creating Web sites. Consider the art of fly-fishing: Choose the most attractive and appropriate lure and then make it easy for the trout to find it ... more >>>

2002

Dynamic Business Solutions

Website: http://d-b-s.com/
Published: January 2002
Written By: Joyce Marcel, Vermont Business Magazine
Description: Dynamic Business Solutions sells expertise in software  Dynamic Business Solutions of Williston has made a name for itself by selling business software throughout New England. But what gets the company excited these days is that it is getting more and more recognition at home in Vermont ... more >>>

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