BIGGEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE TO BE WORRY FREE SAYS DANIEL CORBY, CEO 118GROUP
“Getting married is a worry” said Daniel Corby, founder and CEO of fast growing directory business 118 Group, “and that is why we are entering the weddings industry with our latest directory, 118gethitched.com. 118gethitched is a leading wedding portal, designed to help you find anything that you need to plan and organise your wedding. And the beauty is, every advertise is displayed alongside checkable references – so you can see what previous advertisers have to say about the quality of their work”
Daniel Corby continues, “118 gethitched plays on the success of 118trades, which was the first directory launched by 118 Group in 2005. 118trades is now the UK’s leading directory service of tradespeople and businesses with checkable references listing over 45,000 UK businesses and we expect 118gethitched to dominate the weddings portal business within the next year. The 118gethitched brand was created by full service design agency, flying saucer marketing, and is being promoted using National media booked by Rathbone Media. Rathbone have already booked substantial advertising for the 118gethitched brand which has included Cosmopolitan Brides Magazine, Roadside posters, Local press and Tatler Magazine. We expect this advertising to ramp up substantially in the coming months as our member base grows and we begin to dominate the weddings business”
Notes to editors
118gethitched.com is a brand of the 118 Group. 118 Group now takes in 118trades, 118telecoms, and 118mobile and has interests in Advertising, Directories, Mobile, Publishing and Telecoms. 118 Group Holdings plc, the parent company is planning to float on the AIM market, which could happen as early as 2007 / 2008. 118 Group board has recently made some key appointments including Richard Allan, the former CEO of Perry Group plc as Chairman and Hugh Craen, the founder and former MD of Potential Finance Group plc as a non executive director. Both Richard and Hugh join Bradley Chapman, commercial director on the board with Daniel Corby, founder and CEO of the business. 118trades is the largest trading division which now has 45,000 active UK members. 118 Group completed the acquisition of Car Auto Limited in July and will launch this product in quarter 1 of 2007 from a new state of the art call centre in Chelmsford. Daniel Corby was previously sales director at mobile high street retailer, phones4u, part of the Caudwell Group.
www.118trades.com
www.118gethitched.com
www.118telecoms.com
www.fidolocal.com
www.carauto.co.uk
www.the118group.com
