About us
Colour Pages has helped local businesses grow for over 50 years. Colourpages.com lets customers find exactly what they are after in Hull, East Yorkshire and beyond.
Meet the team behind the scene
Our dedicated and experienced local team are here to help you every step of the way. Our team consists of a multifunctional Sales team, a dynamic Production team, a creative Studio team and a marketing team with extensive knowledge on localisation, branding, messaging and positioning – all experts in their field and ready to deliver an outstanding service.
The Colour Pages Timeline
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2011
KC Colour Pages launches the colourpages.com iPhone app
KC Colour Pages introduced KCodes to the printed and online directory
KC Colour Pages launched the Tried and Trusted section of the directory for businesses trading for 10 years or more
KC Colour Pages started to sell telephone box advertising to businesses
Great Britain celebrated the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton
2010
KC Colour Pages online directory colourpages.com was launched after a complete make over
Apple Releases the iPad taking the new technology of touch screen computing to new levels
2009
KC White Pages became full colour
KC Colour Pages marketing team won ‘Marketing Team of the year’ at (Data Publishers Association) DPA Awards
The King of pop – Michael Jackson sadly passed away
2008
KC Colour Pages are sponsored KCFM's Away Game commentaries for Hull City AFC during the 2008-09 seasons
KC Colour Pages was the first UK Directory to provide each home and business across Hull and the East Yorkshire with a unique personalised copy of the Directory, using inkjet numbering techniques to give each directory an individual number which allow directory users to participate in local promotions, competitions and loyalty schemes.
KC Colour Pages has also introduced Showroom Sites, a three-page entry-level website given free to its advertisers
KC Colour Pages was short-listed in 5 categories for the (Data Publishers Association) DPA Awards
Surgeons at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital perform the first operations using bionic eyes
2007
KC Colour Pages was a founder sponsor of the Hull Comedy Festival
Gordon Brown becomes the new British Prime Minister
2005
The KC Colour Pages sales team was declared ‘Sales Team of the Year’ at the Data Publishers Association (DPA) Awards
London wins the right to stage the 2012 Olympic Games
2004
KC Colour Pages launched the UK's first online directory advertising proofing system
KC Colour Pages introduced the recycling programme Re:fresh, an initiative operated in with local schools encouraging recycling of old directories.
Facebook was founded
1999
KC Colour Pages launched its Online Directory
A minimum wage is introduced throughout the UK
1998
KC Colour Pages was the UK's first full colour Business Directory
The Angel of the North, is erected at Gateshead
1992
The directory split into two separate books – Business and Residential
Fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage
1954
KC Colour Pages became the UK’s first classified telephone directory
Winston Churchill becomes the first, and as of 2011 the only, British Prime Minister to reach his 80th birthday while still in office
