October 12, 2008
 
Bain Capital
 
 
|
Affiliates of Bain Capital, a global private investment firm, purchased Verizon Communications Inc.'s directory operations in Canada for Cdn$1.985 billion.  The directory operations, SuperPages Canada, is Canada's second-largest directories publisher and is the official TELUS directory publisher in Western Canada. Online directory operations were also included in the transaction.

|
2004