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DALLAS, December 31, 2018 – DexYP^®, a Delaware corporation (“Dex”) and leading provider of cloud-based small business software for small business, today announced that it entered into a senior secured credit facility (the “Facility”), comprised of an $825,000,000 five-year senior secured term loan facility.

The proceeds of the Facility will be used to repay in full the indebtedness outstanding under Dex Media Holding Inc.’s (“Holding”) (also known as DexYP) existing senior secured credit facility, dated as of July 29, 2016, among Holdings, as borrower, the lenders from time to time party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as administrative agent, and pay associated fees and expenses, and for general corporate purposes, including, but not limited to, financing share buybacks (whether via tender offer or open market repurchase programs), dividends and/or acquisitions. The Facility was borrowed by Dex, is guaranteed by Holdings and certain of Dex’s future subsidiaries and is secured by substantially all tangible and intangible assets of Dex and certain of Dex’s subsidiaries.

“We are pleased to announce that we have secured this new $825 million term loan,” said Joe Walsh, CEO and president of DexYP. “This new, lower cost funding demonstrates that key lenders continue to have confidence in our ability to deliver strong financial results; and it provides us the flexibility to pursue strategic alternatives.”

About DexYP
DexYP^® builds and owns Thryv^®, the simple, easy-to-use software that helps small business owners with the daily demands of running a business; and allows them to take control and be more successful. Thryv provides modernized business functions allowing them to manage their time, communicate with clients, and get paid. These include building a digital customer list, communicating with customers via email and text, updating business listings across the internet, accepting appointments, sending notifications and reminders, managing ratings and reviews, generating estimates and invoices, processing payments, and issuing invoices and coupons.

DexYP delivers business services to more than 500,000 small businesses across America that enable them to compete and win in today’s economy.

DexYP also provides consumer services through our market-leading search, display and social products—and connects local businesses to the over 50 million monthly visitors of DexKnows.com^®, Superpages.com^® and yellowpages.com search portals; and local print directories The Real Yellow Pages^®. For more information about the company, visit dexyp.com.

Forward-looking Statements

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If one or more events related to these or other risks or uncertainties materialize, or if our underlying assumptions prove to be incorrect, actual results may differ materially from what we anticipate. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof and, other than as required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Investor Contact:
Nicholas Haughey
DexYP
972.453.7637
[email protected]

Media Contact:
Paige Blankenship
972.453.3012
[email protected]