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Some financial figures on Yell Group

HAVING read that many landscapers seem to be one of the favourite targets of sales reps from Yellow Pages, thought you might be interested in the latest financial figures from Yell Group: Earnings: Yell Group’s Online Revenue Growth Can’t Offset Print Decline —Yell.com:: In the UK, Yell.com made online revenues of £164.5 million, a 18.2 percent lift year on year —Yellow pages: The UK’s big yellow book, which has 113 editions, made 10.9 percent less revenue year on year at £504.4 million —Yell in the downturn: Like most media companies, Yell pleads that the economic downturn was “worse than anyone expected”
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    “worse than anyone expected”

    I suppose it depends how deep the sand was!
  • Actually, not true. Some people have been warning about the financial meltdown for years but, guess what? they were busy being sacked from banks, ignored by the media and ridiculed by politicians who happened to have their snouts too deep in the trough to notice the stench... too bad for those of us that will not be getting multi-million pound bonusses!
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