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Simon Jennings Named General Manager of LiveDeal.ca, New Free Local Online Classifieds Marketplace for Canadians
17 January 2006 Torstar Digital and LiveDeal announced today that Mr. Simon Jennings has been named the General Manager of LiveDeal.ca, a new free local online classifieds site that goes live today and provides Canadians with a cost-effective, easy-to-use and efficient online marketplace for buying and selling goods locally and nationally. With more than 13 years of experience in the Canadian Internet space, Simon's mission at LiveDeal.ca is to build one of the largest and most comprehensive online classifieds sites in Canada. Simon joins LiveDeal.ca from Yahoo! Canada, where he was Yahoo!'s National Sales Director since 2001. Prior to joining Yahoo! Canada, Jennings spent five years at DoubleClick Canada, leading the media sales business as National Sales Director. Before joining DoubleClick Canada, Jennings developed and launched ClickThrough Interactive, Canada's first online advertising network. Simon's early entrepreneurial ventures include web development, on-line measurement and auditing, and web consulting. "We are pleased to have Simon leading the first international expansion of LiveDeal," said Rajesh Navar, founder and CEO of LiveDeal. "With Simon's perspective, focus and proven track record, we are confident we will be able to meet, and exceed, the needs of Canadian online classified users." Over the past decade, Simon has been a leader in the Canadian Internet marketing and advertising industries. Currently, Simon sits on the Board of Directors for the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) of Canada where he held the positions of Chairman (2003) and Vice President, Publishers (2002). In addition, Simon has represented the Internet on the Board of the Advertising Club of Toronto, and has been a member of Association of Internet Marketing and Sales (AIMS) since the mid 1990s. "As someone who's consistently been on the Internet's leading edge, Simon is the ideal choice to lead our LiveDeal.ca team," says Torstar Digital's President, Tomer Strolight. "Simon's leadership will help to quickly establish LiveDeal.ca as one of the largest online classified marketplaces in Canada." About LiveDeal.ca With its free listings and broad selection, LiveDeal.ca is ideal for trading hard-to-ship items such as automobiles, furniture, pets, appliances, real estate and other "try before you buy" items. Buyers can browse or search for items using LiveDeal's easy-to-use web interface, seeing what's available locally first then nationwide second. Sellers enjoy a local or national listing with optional enhancements, resulting in a more cost-effective marketplace to list their goods and services. To experience LiveDeal, visit www.livedeal.ca. LiveDeal.ca is a joint venture between LiveDeal and Torstar Corporation's online unit, Torstar Digital that marries the strength of LiveDeal's industry-leading Web classifieds technology with the extensive local reach of Torstar's newspapers. For further information and to book an interview with Simon Jennings, please contact David Weinstein at Strategic Objectives. Phone: 416-366-7735; Fax: 416-366-2295; Email: davidw@strategicobjectives.com. For more information on LiveDeal.com, please contact Marian Hughes at Tier One Partners. Tel: (708) 246-0083 or Kathy Wilson at Tier One Partners. Tel: (781) 862-9937. Torstar Corporation is a broadly based media company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TS.nv.b). Its businesses include newspapers led by the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper; CityMedia Group, publishers of daily and community newspapers in Southwestern Ontario; Metroland Printing, Publishing & Distributing, publishers of more than 90 community newspapers in Southern Ontario; and Harlequin Enterprises, a leading global publisher of women's fiction. Torstar's news releases are available on the Internet at www.torstar.com.
For further information: about Torstar please contact: David P. Holland, Executive Vice-President and CFO, Torstar Corporation, (416) 869-4031
Source: newswire
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