YCC Yankee Cdle

The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. (NYSE: YCC), the leading designer, manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of premium scented candles, will hold its quarterly conference call via webcast to discuss fiscal 2006 second quarter results on Wednesday, July 26, 2006, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at The Yankee Candle Company's Web site at www.yankeecandle.com. The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.fulldisclosure.com, Thomson/CCBN's individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). About The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. is the leading designer, manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of premium scented candles in the growing giftware industry. Yankee has a 36 year history of offering distinctive products and marketing them as affordable luxuries and consumable gifts. The Company sells its candles through a North American wholesale customer network of approximately 17,000 store locations, a growing base of Company owned and operated retail stores (381 located in 42 states as of April 1, 2006), direct mail catalogs, its Internet website (www.yankeecandle.com), international distributors and to a European wholesale customer network of approximately 2,300 store locations (through its distribution center located in Bristol, England).