Woodbine, MD – November 2004 -- Green Industry Yellow Pages (GIYP.com), the green industry’s leading vertical directory, announces that it will become a vertical channel partner for Yellowpagecity.com (YPC), the world’s largest online Yellow Page Network.

The agreement means exceptionally better local lawn and garden content for users, and more precise geo-targeted marketing for green businesses, both retail and major brands, listed on the directory.

Steven Pavone, CEO of Yellowpagecity.com, chose GIYP as their partner “because they offer the most comprehensive and credible content for the green industry and it makes a good fit with our traditional yellow pages. Their listings of local retailers will help close the gap between customers looking for plants and garden products and local retailers selling them.”
Yellowpagecity.com users will have access to cultural information; photos and expert plant speak on more than 50,000 different types of plants included in the GIYP Virtual Plant Tag database. These Virtual Plant Tags will have a store locator button where users click to find a garden center in their neighborhood.

GIYP.com hosts more than 150,000 green goods businesses in the U.S. and Canada and a plant database of more than 50,000 plants and flowers with photos and cultural information provided on Virtual Plant Tags™ (www.VirtualPlantTags.com).

Wholesale green good suppliers and distributors, retail growers, independent garden centers, and landscaping service providers can all be found on the GIYP directory.

GIYP.com was founded in 1999 as a directory utility for the green industry to bridge the gap between the message and the target audience by influencing undecided buyers and driving decisive buyers to suppliers. It currently provides information on over 150,000 businesses and over 25,000 plants. Visit www.giyp.com or e-mail at inquire@giyp.com. Phone: 888-999-5133 or call the Garden Media Group at (610) 388-9330 for more information.