Golden Pages

Golden Pages is a company which publishes a telephone directory of businesses categorized according to product or service. Business listings are printed on yellow paper as opposed to white paper for non-commercial and private phone numbers.

Golden Pages
Headquarters
Belgium, Czech Republic, Republic of Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, Romania
ProductsTelephone directory of businesses
Golden Pages building in Ramat Gan, Israel

Golden Pages is published in Belgium, Czech Republic, Republic of Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria and Romania. The publishing companies in these countries are not necessarily related.

Israel

Golden Pages Israel (Hebrew: דפי זהב‎, Dapei Zahav) was founded by Morris Kahn in 1968, distributing three directories in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem. Originally a subsidiary of the international Yellow Pages company, it was divested due to the Arab League boycott of Israel – because of the company's desire to enter the Saudi Arabian market. It was quietly sold to Kahn who developed it into a large multinational telecom-related business, from which he spun off Amdocs in 1982.[1]

In 2007, the company was sold by Markstone Capital Partners to Australian firm Babcock & Brown, who purchased 100% of the company.[2][3] The company's CEO is Nir Lampert. The largest competitor is Bezeq, which launched a rival internet service in July 2008. The directory lists 250,000 businesses.

The slogan of the company "תן לאצבעות ללכת במקומך" (Ten LeEtzba'ot Lelekhet BeMkomkha), parallel to the English "let your fingers do the walking" has become an idiom in Hebrew, and means to do the work with your phone or computer instead of running around.[4]

See also

References
  1. ערן גפן (27 May 2020). "מוריס קאהן: מיליארדר ופילנתרופ - חושף את נוסחת ההצלחה". www.gefenpodcast.com (Podcast). Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  2. Eran Gabay (September 4, 2007). "Golden Pages ties the knot with Mitchatnim wedding planner". Haaretz. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  3. "BCM acquires Israeli Golden Pages". News Limited. August 1, 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  4. "Let Your Fingers Do The Walking". Babylon. Retrieved 26 January 2014. Slogan of Golden Pages; It's possible to save running around by using the telephone (in Hebrew)
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