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| Total turnover, including share
of ventures |
£778m |
| Group turnover |
£774m |
| EBITDA |
£223m |
| Operating profit before goodwill
amortisation |
£210m |
| Capital expenditure on plant,
equipment and property |
£21m |
| Net operating assets |
£710m |
| Share of venture’s net
assets, including goodwill |
£2m |
| Employees |
5,300 |
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Yell is a leading provider of classified advertising directories
and associated products and services, principally to small and medium-sized
enterprises and consumers in the UK and USA. Yell’s products
and services are designed to generate business leads by connecting
buyers and sellers through an integrated portfolio of advertising
solutions, including printed telephone, and internet-based, directories.
In addition, Yell provides a growing range of business-to-consumer
and business-to-business products and services through new media,
primarily the internet.
In the UK, Yell distributes approximately 28.9 million copies of
directories to households and businesses, and publishes 861,000
advertisements on behalf of 418,000 advertisers. In the 2000 financial
year, Yellow Book USA, Yell’s US business, distributed approximately
17.5 million copies of directories to households and businesses,
and published 1,155,000 advertisements on behalf of 170,000 advertisers.
The revenues from Yell products and services, including Yellow Book
USA, represented about 4% of group turnover in the 2001 financial
year.
Yell's principal activity is the sale of advertising in, and the
preparation and publication of, classified directory products. Yell
maintains, develops and regularly updates extensive databases of
information on businesses, the core of which is small and medium-sized
enterprises in the UK, and in the eastern, mid-western and southern
USA.
Yell's principal products and services are:
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UK Printed Directories,
comprising Yellow Pages and Business Pages; |
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US Printed Directories,
comprising Yellow Book; |
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On-line Services, incorporating
the Yell.com and Yellowbook.com internet sites, and website
design and hosting services in the UK and USA; and |
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Other Products and Services,
including the following products and services in the UK: |
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Talking Pages,
a telephone-based, operator-assisted, classified information
service; |
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The Business
Database, which provides customer-specific, direct marketing
and database development services to businesses; |
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Service Call,
a telephone answering service; and |
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sales agent services
which Yell provides for the BT Phone Book white pages directories.
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