The company was founded in 1987 as Hebdo Mag by
John MacBain and
Louise Blouin MacBain, a married couple. On Aug 15, 1997, the company was purchased by
CUC International for $440MIL In April 2000, the company went public and changed its name to Trader.com NV from Hebdo Mag. In 2005,
Trader Media East was established comprising the Russian, Baltic, CIS and Eastern European operations of Trader Classified Media. In 2006,
John MacBain began liquidation and selling of the company so he could focus on the
McCall MacBain Foundation. In July 2006,
Schibsted finalised the acquisition of parts of Trader Classified Media NV in Spain, Latin America, France, Italy and Switzerland. In February 2006 The
Yellow Pages Group, publishers of directories in Canada purchased the Canadian and US assets of Trader Classified Media along with the domain trader.com, creating
Trader Corporation. ==References==