Yell Group

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Yell Group plc

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legal form Public limited company
ISIN GB0031718066
founding 2001
Seat Reading United Kingdom
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Number of employees 14,642 (2007/08)
sales 2,218.7 million £ (2007/08)
Branch service provider
Website www.yellgroup.com

The Yell Group plc is provides a service company in the UK, the telephone directories and other similar services. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange on the FTSE 100 .

Yell Group is headquartered in Reading, Berkshire , west of London , England .

The company was founded in 2001 through the privatization of a division of the former British state telephone company BT Group , which published the Yellow Pages in Great Britain. In March 2006 the company had around 11,368 employees.

Yell Group offers the Yellow Pages in book format and online .

2005 Yell Group acquired in the United States , the company Transwestern Holdings LP, brings out in 25 states in the United States telephone directories.

In 2006, Yell Group took over 59.9% of the Spanish service company Telefónica Publicidad e Información (TPI) from the company Telefónica .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Yell Group plc: Annual Report 2007/08. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 24, 2009 ; Retrieved January 29, 2009 (fiscal year from March 31, 2007 to March 31, 2008).