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Who are we?
By all accounts, 1980 was an interesting year in the UK.
Hercules the grizzly bear went on the run for 24 days to avoid starring in a Kleenex TV advert, a comedian named Russell Howard popped into the world and a little company called Thomson Directories Ltd was born.
One year later and the thomsonlocal Business Directory was already finding its way into over 22 million homes and businesses throughout the UK.
Fast forward to present day and thomsonlocal is a fully digital business directory and marketing service business, connecting millions of customers with local businesses each and every month.
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What do we do?
We help customers find local businesses
It takes just seconds to find the contact details of any businesses listed on thomsonlocal. Many business listings also contain photos, reviews and service lists – helping you to make an informed decision about who you choose to hire.
We help local businesses get noticed online
From free business listings to prime position adverts, responsive websites and SEO services. We offer business owners a suite of digital marketing products to maximise the presence of their business online. Whatever your budget or business size, there is a thomsonlocal product for you.
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Our Story
The 1980’s and 90’s was the golden age for business directories like thomsonlocal
Back then, you couldn’t turn on the TV without seeing our mascot Ginger Tom rubbing shoulders with the likes of Cilla Black to promote our little blue book.
Fast forward to the age of the internet and the demand for printed directories was in decline. We knew that our future was in digital, but the transition from print was not going to be easy.
In 2013, after a difficult period of trading, thomsonlocal went into administration
Fortunately at the 11th hour part of the business was saved via a buyout from Corporate Media Partners Ltd and its subsidiaries, this was not without the unfortunate loss of over 170 jobs across the company.
This difficult time resulted in a necessary transition to a much leaner thomsonlocal, fully geared towards the modern world of digital advertising.
Today thomsonlocal is one of the biggest digital marketing agencies in the world, connecting tens of millions of customers and businesses each year.
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Our Partners
When you choose thomsonlocal you benefit from the combined knowledge and expertise of our partner network. Each co-owned business has their own specialist area and as a team we deliver world class service and value to our customers.
Discover more about our partners below:
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Market Location are experts in providing businesses with solutions for achieving sustained, profitable growth. As the primary data owner in the UK, we independently verify and collect business data in-house to enhance and maintain our market-leading database.
Whether you are looking to uncover new sales opportunities, gain customer insight to inform communications or clean and enhance your customer database, Market Location is the only partner you need.
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The ultimate service for multi-location businesses & brands Regardless of size every business must have a presence on the internet – but more than this, that presence must be at a local level. To appear in the search results a business must have the right local digital activity.
60% of people are looking for local search results when they use a search engine so if your business doesn’t appear then there is potential opportunities that will be missed.
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118information contact over 1.75 million UK businesses every year to make sure their details are correct for listings used by BT, 118118, Bing.com and many others.
Wherever a potential buyer may be searching, the information will no doubt have come from us at 118 Information.
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Our Future
We are committed to helping you succeed
This goes beyond simply selling products to businesses, this is about what we can do to help everyday people transform their business ideas and dreams into reality.
Our goal is to become an all-in-one information resource for business owners, entrepreneurs and the people seeking their services. This means free and easy to understand articles that tackle subjects like SEO and local businesses advertising. We also plan to award thomsonlocal products as competition prizes and support local community and new business events.
2024 is set to become our biggest year yet, with major improvements already underway on thomsonlocal.com. So, if you’re not already on board, it’s never been a better time to get involved!
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