Trader Corporation is a Canadian technology company based in Toronto specializing in classified automotive advertising.
The two companies were acquired by Yellow Pages Income Fund from Trader Classified Media that same year.
[11] Yellow Pages sold its Trader Corporation division in March 2011 to London-based private equity firm Apax Partners for $745 million.
[12][13] Apax Partners previously purchased a 49.9% stake in U.K.-based Trader Media Group in 2007,[14] and acquired the remaining 50.1% in 2014.
[20] In May 2018, Trader Corporation announced a strategic investment in DealerBreacher, a digital advertising services company based in Montreal.
[23] In January 2020, Trader Corporation invested in Motoinsight, a provider of digital retailing solutions for the automotive industry.
[25] In June 2021, Trader Corporation invested in Activix, a software development firm that serves automobile dealerships.
[26] In February 2022, AutoTrader announced the start of a partnership with digital communications company that specializes in automotive, RAPID RTC.