De Koopman

De uitgever van bedrijvengidsen Yell heeft last van de kredietcrisis. Topman John Condron omschrijft de Engelse en Amerikaanse markten als ‘bevroren’. Over Spanje laat hij zich niet uit, maar bekend is dat dat land afgelopen maanden forse financiële klappen kreeg.

De Financial Times sprak met Condron en schrijft:

“(…) “[Our customers'] banks were always there for them, but the uncertainty in the financial community is making expansion plans few and far between,” he said.

The sales canvassers, who underpin Yell’s print and online directories in the UK, US and Spain, are reporting an extremely nervous outlook among the small and medium-sized enterprises that are their regular clients.

“The expansion we would normally have seen in a lot of small businesses has come to a halt. It’s almost as if they are frozen at the moment, with the fear and uncertainty of what lies ahead of them.” (…)

Mr Condron said Yell would save £150m in the current year and £100m in 2009, with about 1,300 jobs lost in each period. The UK, where Yell employs 3,800 of its 13,900 total workforce, was likely to see a similar number of redundancies and unfilled jobs next year as this. (…)”

Het is niet duidelijk in hoeverre dit ook impact heeft op de pure online bedrijvengidsen.

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