Transcontinental Reports Gains for Fiscal Year Despite Q4 Loss

Fiscal 2008 was also marked by a series of promising digital initiatives. These included the purchase of Acquizition.biz, the most important marketplace in Canada for buying and selling businesses; the launch of the website recipefeast.com, the English-language version of the very popular site recettes.qc.ca, which now receives close to a million visitors a month; making the popular site thehockeynews.com, which has over 300,000 visitors a month and whose print publication has a readership of more than two million, available via mobile devices (cell phones, Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone); and the acceleration of the migration of all community newspapers to a digital platform through a partnership with NewspaperDirect and its leading-edge technology in digital publishing.