active trader classified media is one of the largest classified advertising companies in the world citation needed . it was founded in 1987 by john macbain and currently operates over 575 print titles and 56 websites in 20 countries . the company focuses particularly on the automotive real estate jobs and general merchandise sectors . the company lists over 25 million items of content in 90 million ads each year citation needed . based in canada it went public in march 2000 as trader.com on nasdaq and in paris and currently employs 7 500 people . trader corporation was formed in june 2006 with the integration of classified media canada holdings inc. trader canada and trader media corporation tmc . the two companies were acquired by yellow pages income fund that same year . trader corporation is present throughout canada and has approximately 1 280 employees . trader corporation s brand portfolio includes auto trader auto hebdo buy & sell the bargain finder hometrader and visitenet . 1 international edit in august 2005 the sunday times uk newspaper reported that both google and yahoo have approached in company as a potential take over or tie up . in july 2006 forbes reported that scandinavian media company 1 schibsted asa has finalised the acquisition of parts of trader classified media nv in spain latin america france italy and switzerland . in the fourth quarter of 2005 trader media east was established comprising the russian baltic cis and eastern european operations of trader classified media . in february 2006 the yellow pages group publishers of directories in canada purchased the canadian and us assets of trader classified media . references edit tradercorporation.ca retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title trader classified media & oldid 717278559 categories advertising agencies of canadacompanies established in 1987hidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 26 april 2016 at 19 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view