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  Yell Group - About Yell - Yell Group - Awards & recognition
Yell Group plc was again selected to appear in two major indices - the Dow Jones World Indexes (DJSI World - top 10% of companies around the world) and the Dow Jones European Sustainability Index (DJSI STOXX top 20% of companies in Europe) on sustainability.
Yell was the winner in the 'Best Not for Profit' category at the PR Week Awards in recognition of 'Words Worth Reading', a schools fundraising campaign which formed part of the 2004 Marie Curie Cancer Care/Yellow Pages Daffodil Campaign.
Yell Group plc was selected to appear in two major indices - the Dow Jones World Indexes (DJSI World - top 10% of companies around the world) and the Dow Jones European Sustainability Index (DJSI STOXX top 20% of companies in Europe) on sustainability.
www.yellgroup.com /english/aboutyell-yellgroup-awardsrecognition   (1441 words)

  
  Yell Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yell Group plc (LSE: YELL) is a British directory company, which is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index of leading British quoted companies.
The group has its origins in the division of the privatised former British state telecommunications operator BT Group plc which produced the UK version of Yellow Pages, and has been an independent quoted company since 2001.
Yell's turnover for the year ended 31 March 2005 was £1,285.3 million.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yell_Group   (257 words)

  
 Yell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yell is one of the North Isles of Shetland, Scotland.
Ferries sail from Ulsta on the island to Toft on the Shetland Mainland and from Gutcher on Yell to Belmont on Unst and Oddsta on Fetlar.
The coastline of Yell includes numerous voes where otters and seabirds including merlins, skuas and red-throated divers are common.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yell   (162 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Media / Yell buys U.S. directory firm, profit up   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Yell has agreed to a new 2 billion pound ($3.7 billion) credit facility, which will refinance all of its bank debt and fund the TransWestern acquisition.
Yell operates in Britain under a price cap which limits price increases to six percentage points below the rate of inflation -- a formula that at current inflation rates means the company actually has to cut prices each year.
Yell controls more than three-quarters of the UK directories market, but it has argued that competition is robust due to rival advertising outlets online and in newspapers.
www.boston.com /ae/media/articles/2005/05/17/yell_buys_us_directory_firm_as_profit_up   (619 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Big Yellow Pages operation is sold
Yell Group, which publishes 111 phone directories in the United Kingdom, including Britain's Yellow Pages, said the acquisition will establish it as the world's third largest publisher of phone directories.
Yell began as part of the telecommunications company that later became British Telecom.
Yell Group, a British company that publishes the Yellow Book in the United States, is purchasing TransWestern Publishing of San Diego for $1.58 billion in cash.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20050518-9999-1b18yellow.html   (804 words)

  
 Yellow Pages Integrated Media Associationsm
The Yell Group, which is 90 percent owned by the private equity firms Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst and Apax Partners, plans to list on the London Stock Exchange about July 9.
Yell is not alone in its plans to raise capital on the London Stock Exchange.
Even if the Yell Group's stock sale is a success, analysts do not expect private equity players to be able to unload assets onto the London exchange.
www.yppa.org /newsroom/idisplay.cfm?ID=88   (643 words)

  
 European Markets Open Mixed
BAA has beaten market expectations with an 18.8% rise in pre-tax profits of 637 million pounds, aided by passenger growth and cost cuts, while Yell Group has swung to a full-year net profit of 94.2 million pounds from a loss of 51.1 million pounds in the previous year.
The dividend was increased by 6% to 21.2 pence.
Group turnover rose to 1,285 million pounds from 1,186 million pounds over the same time period.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-17-2005/0003632971&EDATE=   (853 words)

  
 Yell Group - About Yell - Yell Group
Yell is a leading international directories business operating in the classified advertising market in the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain and Latin America.
Yell seeks to understand, anticipate and meet the changing demands of advertisers and users and to take advantage of new technologies and communication methods in the development of world class products and services.
Group revenue (excluding Yell Publicidad) for the year ended 31 March 2007 was £2.075 billion and Group adjusted EBITDA was £677.5 million.
www.yellgroup.com /english/aboutyell-yellgroup   (500 words)

  
 Telegraph | Money | Yellow Pages group given the green light for float
Yell, the Yellow Pages group, yesterday unveiled plans for a July flotation that is intended to raise £750m and value the company at between £3.5 billion and £4 billion, including over £1 billion of debt.
The announcement comes just a year after Yell's owners, venture capital groups Apax Partners and Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst, bought the business from a cash-strapped BT for £2.14 billion.
Yell operates the Yellow Pages business in the UK and is the largest independent telephone directory publisher in the US.
www.telegraph.co.uk /money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2002/05/24/cnyello24.xml&sSheet=/money/2002/05/24/ixcity.html   (441 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Competition fears hit Yell shares
Yell is the dominant directory service in the UK Shares in directory group Yell fell by almost 4% as competition watchdogs said it was so dominant in the market that its rivals were struggling to compete.
Yell said that the marketplace was "increasingly competitive" and that it would contest enforced regulation.
Shares in Yell were down 20p, or 3.79%, at 507.25p by the close of trade on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/business/4642476.stm   (449 words)

  
 BITC - Yell Group publishes first Corporate Responsibility Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Yell’s Corporate Responsibility Report 2004/05 also explains the company’s strong belief that corporate responsibility and corporate governance are interwoven.
John Condron, chief executive of Yell, said: “I’m pleased that with the publication of our first corporate responsibility report, Yell has the opportunity to show its strong commitment to this issue, its achievements to date and, also, to set out the objectives for further improvement.
Yell’s corporate responsibility report outlines how four guiding principles of excellence, reliability, responsibility and integrity support the company’s aim of demonstrating it is well managed and responsible.
www.bitc.org.uk /news/news_directory/yellcrreport05.html   (392 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: News & Commentary
Yell and owners Apax Partners Holdings Ltd. and Hicks Muse Tate and Furst Inc. sold 400 million shares at 285 pence each, valuing the former BT Group Plc unit at about 2 billion pounds, said the people, who asked not to be identified.
Yell, whose Yellow Pages is the largest telephone-directory business in the U.K., had sought 250p to 300p per share.
Yell posted a 29 percent increase in sales to 1.1 billion pounds in the year ended March 2003, compared with 865.4 million pounds.
quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=email&refer=uk&sid=aXFhdzBZfY88   (616 words)

  
 Investor's Business Daily: Breaking News
Yell Group (YELLYELL) said its U.S. division, the Yellow Book USA, is buying TransWestern from private equity investors Thomas H. Lee Partners, CIVC Partners, LLC and TransWestern's management.
The deal comes as Yell, which was spun out of BT Group, faces possible pressures on its revenue from classified advertising in Britain.
Yell said it expects annual savings of around $69 million in its third year, and that the deal will add to its earnings its first full financial year after completion.
www.investors.com /breakingnews.asp?journalid=27657560&brk=1   (557 words)

  
 YELL GROUP stock quotes and news
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www.abcmoney.co.uk /pinfo/YELL_GROUP.htm   (686 words)

  
 Yell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Yell story is among the most compelling private equity tales of recent years and this session is a unique opportunity to hear it told by the major actors from the investors and the company management.
Yell had been acquired from British Telecom in a joint purchase by Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst and Apax Partners in June 2001.
In July 2003 Yell was listed on the London Stock Exchange in a successful £2 billion IPO, the largest new offering on the UK equity markets in two years.
www.insead.fr /clubs/ipec/Yell.htm   (574 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: U.K.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Yell and the buyout firms that bought the former BT Group Plc unit two years ago are selling shares at 250 pence to 300p apiece, valuing the company at as much as 2.11 billion pounds, Yell said in an e-mailed statement.
Yell posted a 29 percent increase in sales to 1.1 billion pounds in the year ended March 2003, compared with 865.4 million pounds the year before.
Yell Chief Executive Officer John Condron is set to raise about 5.5 million pounds selling less than a quarter of his stake, while Chief Financial Officer John Davis will fetch about 2.5 million pounds selling less than 25 percent of his holding.
quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=auMGUU_8s0RA&refer=uk   (925 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - Business - Yell is in with a shout of making a big noise on the stock exchange
INVESTORS will be asked to show the colour of their money when Yell Group, the telephone directories business, lists on the London Stock Exchange on Thursday - a year after its private equity owners, Apax and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, scrapped plans to join the market because of volatility.
Apax and Hicks, Muse bought Yell from BT Group two years ago for £2.1bn when the former telecoms group was facing a debt crisis.
The new electricals group is expected to debut towards the lower end of the 190p and 205p price range, valuing the group at between £1bn and £1.1bn.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /business.cfm?id=734672003   (1173 words)

  
 Telegraph | Money | Brokers' say
Merrill notes that the group remains one of the fastest organic revenue growth stories in its sector (up 9pc this year), yet is not expensive at under 13 times the forward price earnings multiple for 2006.
The group reported a strong set of interim results, notes Investec, and, including the recently announced 10-year contract with Harrow council (worth more than £100m over 10 years), Capita has announced £240m of additional business in the first seven months of the current year.
The diversity of the bank was amply demonstrated at the group's recent interim results, shrugging off a doubling in European personal financial services bad debts and large investments into the group's investment bank division to report an 8pc increase in earnings.
www.telegraph.co.uk /money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/08/06/cmbroke06.xml   (464 words)

  
 Rotork (ROR) News - Sunday tips round-up: Rotork, Yell, Investec, Wolseley
The Sunday Telegraph looks at Yell, noting that while the Competition Commission investigation may hurt the group, one should not forget exciting US prospects.
Yell is still attractive and worth tucking into, says the paper.
Protherics, the biotech group, is on track to garner US and European approval for Voraxaze, used to reverse the side effects of chemotherapy, says the Sunday Telegraph.
www.digitallook.com /cgi-bin/digital/news.cgi?view=full&story=463272   (635 words)

  
 McLeod Sells Directory Service - Discount Long Distance Digest - 136-012   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The sale of the directory business to the Yell Group is conditioned on the consummation of the Company's recapitalization transaction and is also subject to Hart Scott Rodino approval and other customary closing conditions.
Terms under the definitive agreement with the Yell Group are substantially the same as in the prior agreement with Forstmann Little & Co., including:
Yell is an international directories business operating in the classified advertising market through printed and online media.
www.thedigest.com /more/136/136-012.html   (745 words)

  
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British phone directory publisher Yell Group Plc agreed Tuesday, May 17, to buy American counterpart TransWestern Publishing Co. LLC for $1.58 billion, securing an better-than-expected exit for a private equity consortium led by Thomas H. Lee Partners.
Yell had been favored to win the auction for some time, though the final price is higher than the $1 billion forecast by observers.
Yell, which publishes Britain’s yellow pages, is already the largest U.S. directory publisher not affiliated with a phone company.
www.svpllc.com /news/news_detail.php?ID=13   (383 words)

  
 CNN.com - Yell calls off public listing - July 1, 2002
Yell, which owns the Yellow Pages and Business Pages in Britain, is the third European company to postpone a public offering in the past week -- adding to speculation that other IPOs could also be called off.
The directories group -- along with its private equity owners Apax Partners and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst -- said they were abandoning its £2 billion ($3.1 billion) IPO, planned for Wednesday, "in light of poor equity market conditions."
Yell had hoped to raise as much as £750 million from sales of new shares, while the private equity owners -- who bought Yell from BT Group a year ago for £2.1 billion -- hoped to raise £300 million through the sale of existing shares.
edition.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/07/01/yell.ipo   (338 words)

  
 Yell Group to buy U.S. phone-book rival - International Business - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Yell said its U.S.-based business, Yellow Book U.S.A. Inc., has agreed to buy TransWestern from private equity groups Thomas H. Lee Partners, CIVC Partners, LLC and TransWestern's management for 829 million pounds ($1.53 billion).
Yell, which owns Britain's Yellow Pages and is the largest independent U.S. directory publisher, said it had long targeted TransWestern as a takeover target because of the U.S. group's coverage in 25 states, including core positions in California and Texas.
Shares in Yell rose 2.9 percent to 409.25 pence ($7.54) in morning trading on the London Stock Exchange.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7882912   (567 words)

  
 Yell Group Plc Share Price (YELL), Stock Quotes, Charts, Trades & Market News.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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 ABC News: Yell Group to Buy TransWestern for $1.53B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Yell said its U.S.-based business, Yellow Book U.S.A. Inc., has agreed to buy TransWestern from private equity groups Thomas H. Lee Partners, CIVC Partners, LLC and TransWestern's management.
Yell, which publishes Britain's Yellow Pages and is the largest independent U.S. directory publisher, said it had long targeted TransWestern as a takeover target because of the U.S. group's coverage in 25 states, including core positions in California and Texas.
Yell, which is facing a competition probe by British regulators, said its acquisition of TransWestern will enhance earnings in the first full year after completion and will deliver annual cost savings of about 37.5 million pounds ($69.05 million) in the third full year of ownership.
abcnews.go.com /Business/wireStory?id=764337&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312   (358 words)

  
 Citywire :: News About: Yell Group PLC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Directories group Yell reported strong profits growth so far this year and said it is keeping up pressure on the Competition Commission to scrap price controls.
The chief executive and finance director of business directories giant Yell group have sold more than £6 million worth of shares between them while there was buying at Intercontinental Hotels Group.
Yell Group is too polite to say nasty things about the Competition Commission, but if action speaks louder than words, then its latest acquisition amounts to a two-fingered gesture.
www.citywire.co.uk /News/Share.aspx?InstrumentID=172449   (414 words)

  
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Yell Group adjusted net down 10.2% at GBP46.8M - MarketWatch
Yell says first-quarter 2008 revenue to be lower, trading in line - by MarketWatch
www.marketwatch.com /quotes/uk/yell   (226 words)

  
 Yell Group to buy U.S. phone-book rival - International Business - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Britain's Competition Commission is looking into the operations of Yell and its rival Thomson, following suggestions by the government that the pair are dominating competition and profits are too high.
It is due to issue its final report by the end of June 2006.
Yell said it is "confident that the development and growth of our business in the U.K. and U.S. will continue unaffected during the investigation."
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6448213/did/7882912   (567 words)

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