As of 2016 the company ceased the production and delivery of printed directories, opting instead to offer their services digitally.
It was owned by Seat Pagine Gialle S.p.A. of Italy until both companies fell into administration in August 2013.
Thomson Local's assets were purchased by telephone data company Corporate Media Partners, preserving more than 300 jobs but with 170 redundancies.
[1] In the 1990s, the company expanded its operations to include its own online directory in the shape of thomsonlocal.com and a range of partner implementations supplying classified and keyword based listings to companies such as MSN, StreetMap, Pipex and many others.
In July 2010, Thomson Local signed a multi-year agreement to become the UK's first re-seller of adCenter, the pay-per-click platform for Microsoft's search engine Bing.