HIBU.L Regulatory News (HIBU)

9 Dec 2005 11:00

Yell Group plc09 December 2005 9 December 2005 Yell Group reports Yellowbook.com's performance for the first time at its Investor Seminar 2005 Yell is today holding an Investor Seminar in the United States at which its UKand US management is presenting on its business. Included in the informationbeing released is new information that relates to Yellowbook.com, the US onlineservice which is part of Yellow Book USA, and is set out below. Yell is notproviding a trading update at its Investor Seminar and confirms that the Groupis well on track to meet full year expectations, as was stated in its resultsfor the six months ended 30 September 2005, announced on 8 November 2005. Yellowbook.com's performance Yellowbook.com has grown consistently over the last three years as Yellow Bookhas taken advantage of the increase in its geographic platform and establishmentof its brand to extend its online offering to users and advertisers. Yell.comcontinues to work closely with Yellowbook.com, which is benefiting fromYell.com's experience. • Revenue was $17.9 million for the six months ended 30 September 2005,including TransWestern from 15 July 2005, the date of acquisition. For the yearended 31 March 2005, revenue was $22.2 million compared with $12.8 million forthe previous year. This revenue has previously been reported as part of YellowBook's overall revenue • The number of online adverts was 993,500 at 30 September 2005,including TransWestern. For the year ended 31 March 2005, there were 562,000adverts online, compared with 375,000 the previous year • There were 2.7 million unique visitors during the month of September2005. There were 1.3 million during March 2005 In addition, it was stated that Yellowbook.com's customers, includingTransWestern, represent 51% of Yellow Book's print customer base at 30 September2005. Retention of online customers was broadly in line with print retention forthe six months ended 30 September 2005. The investor day presentations The presentation slides are available on our website at www.yellgroup.com and awebcast of the presentations will be available on the site from Monday 12 December. Enquiries Yell Jill Sherratt Head of Investor Relations Tel: +44 (0) 118 950 6984 Mobile: +44 (0) 7764 879808 Assistant: Azmin Merali +44 (0) 118 950 6287 This news release contains forward-looking statements. These statements appearin a number of places in this news release and include statements regarding ourintentions, beliefs or current expectations concerning, among other things, ourresults of operations, revenue, financial condition, liquidity, prospects,growth, strategies, new products, the level of new directory launches and themarkets in which we operate. Readers are cautioned that any suchforward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involverisks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially fromthose in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. Youshould read the section entitled "Risk Factors" in Yell Finance B.V.'s 31 March2005 annual report on Form 20-F filed with the US Securities and ExchangeCommission (the "SEC") on 13 June 2005, for a discussion of some of thesefactors. We undertake no obligation publicly to update or revise anyforward-looking statements, except as may be required by law. A copy of this release can be accessed at yellgroup.com/announcements This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange