The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. Announces Cash Dividend Payment

  
    
  
  
    
      The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. (“Yankee” 
      or the “Company”) 
      (NYSE:YCC), the leading designer, manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer 
      of premium scented candles, today announced the declaration of its 
      second semi-annual cash dividend payment for fiscal 2006. The 
      semi-annual payment of $0.125 per share will be paid on December 1, 2006 
      to shareholders of record as of November 11, 2006.
    
    
      The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. is the leading designer, manufacturer, 
      wholesaler and retailer of premium scented candles in the 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 products through a North American wholesale customer 
      network of 17,454 store locations, a growing base of Company owned and 
      operated retail stores (409 located in 42 states as of September 30, 
      2006, including 15 Illuminations stores), direct mail catalogs, its 
      Internet website (www.yankeecandle.com), 
      international distributors and to a European wholesale customer network 
      of 2,428 store locations (through its distribution center located in 
      Bristol, England).
    
  
The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. ("Yankee" or the "Company")
(NYSE:YCC), the leading designer, manufacturer, wholesaler and
retailer of premium scented candles, today announced the declaration
of its second semi-annual cash dividend payment for fiscal 2006. The
semi-annual payment of $0.125 per share will be paid on December 1,
2006 to shareholders of record as of November 11, 2006.

   The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. is the leading designer,
manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of premium scented candles in
the 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 products through a North
American wholesale customer network of 17,454 store locations, a
growing base of Company owned and operated retail stores (409 located
in 42 states as of September 30, 2006, including 15 Illuminations
stores), direct mail catalogs, its Internet website
(www.yankeecandle.com), international distributors and to a European
wholesale customer network of 2,428 store locations (through its
distribution center located in Bristol, England).