R._H._Donnelley

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia R. H. Donnelley R. H. Donnelley R. H. Donnelley Corporation Partnerships Following its acquisition by D&B, R. H. Donnelley began a series of partnerships with several telephone companies to publish directories. RHD also began competing with other telephone companies to provide directories. From 1980-1985, RHD began a partnership with United Telephone (Sprint), called Uni-Don, to publish telephone directories to customers in central Florida. In 1986, it contracts with NYNEX to become its directory sales agent. The same year, RHD starts publishing directories in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in competition with Bell Atlantic, although a lot of these areas have since been sold off to Yellow Book. In 1988, it forms Cen-Don with Centel (now part of Embarq) to publish telephone directories in Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia. Venture One is formed with Southwestern Bell Corporation, which publishes directories in competition with Bell Atlantic in Baltimore, MD and Washington, D.C. In 1990, DonTech is formed with Ameritech to publish telephone directories in Illinois and northwest Indiana. Type Founded Headquarters Key people Industry Products Employees Website Public (Pink Sheets: RHDC) 1886 Cary, NC, USA David C. Swanson, Chairman and CEO Directory Publishing Telephone Directories 4,400 http://www.rhd.com R. H. Donnelley is a telephone directory publisher. History The R. H. Donnelley Company was founded in 1886 by Reuben Hamilton Donnelley (the son of Richard Robert Donnelley) as The Chicago Directory Company. Donnelley primarily contracted with The Chicago Telephone Company to publish telephone directories for Chicago Telephone customers. In 1906, however, Donnelley would venture outside Chicago, contracting with Bell System firms such as New York Telephone, Wisconsin Telephone, and Cincinnati Suburban Telephone Co. In 1917, The Reuben H. Donnelley Company was incorporated and moved to New York City, retaining some offices in Chicago. In 1925, Donnelley died, leaving behind his company which continued to contract with the Bell System to publish telephone directories. In 1961, Dun & Bradstreet Corp. traded stock with RHD, and RHD became a wholly owned subsidiary. Public Offering On July 1, 1998, D&B spins off R. H. Donnelley into a separate, publicly-traded company. RHD then begins trading on the NYSE under the "RHD" symbol. In 2002, RHD acquires Sprint Directory Publishing, the publishing unit of Sprint Corp. AT&T Yellow Pages in Illinois logo, 2005-2006 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 2004, RHD acquires the directory publishing business of SBC Communications in Illinois and northwest Indiana, along with the SBC interest in DonTech. As a result, R. H. Donnelley gains a 50-year licensing agreement to use the SBC Yellow Pages name on all directories published for SBC Illinois customers. Following the AT&T merger, the directories are now known as "AT&T Yellow Pages published by R. H. Donnelley". In 2006, RHD completed its acquisition of Dex Media, which was spun off from Qwest in 2003-2004. Following the acquisition, RHD becomes the third largest directory publisher in the United States. In January 2007, RHD bought Local Launch Search Marketing to add strength its online marketing division for its yellow pages. In July 2007, RHD bought Business.com.[1] On December 31, 2008, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) suspended trading of R.H. Donnelley because the company’s market capitalization was less than $25 million for 30 consecutive trading days, which violated the continued listing standards. As a result of this suspension, R.H. Donnelley began trading its common stock over-thecounter (OTC) on the Pink Sheets beginning on January 2, 2009 under the symbol RHDC.[2] R. H. Donnelley Today R. H. Donnelley currently operates in 28 states. See also • Dex Media • R. H. Donnelley Publishing & Advertising • R. H. Donnelley Publishing & Advertising of Illinois • RR Donnelley References [1] "R.H. Donnelley to Acquire Business.com Inc.". http://phx.corporate-ir.net/ phoenix.zhtml?c=74700&p=irolnewsArticle&ID=1031378. Retrieved on 10/17/2007. [2] "R.H. Donnelley Stock to Trade Over the Counter". http://phx.corporate-ir.net/ phoenix.zhtml?c=74700&p=irolnewsArticle&ID=1240022. Retrieved on 01/16/2009. • R. H. Donnelley Corporate History External links • R. H. Donnelley Corporate Website Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._H._Donnelley" Categories: Companies listed on the Pink Sheets, R. H. Donnelley, Telephone directory publishing companies of the United States, Companies based in North Carolina This page was last modified on 16 May 2009, at 09:10 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) taxdeductible nonprofit charity. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers 2