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 first quarter results on Wednesday, April 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 35 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 16,400 store locations, a growing base of Company owned and operated retail stores (390 located in 42 states as of December 31, 2005), direct mail catalogs, its Internet website (www.yankeecandle.com), international distributors and to a European wholesale customer network of approximately 2,200 store locations (through its distribution center located in Bristol, England).