Yankee Candle ''Lights a Candle for Your Heart''Yankee Candle "Lights a Candle for Your Heart" (Photo: Business Wire)

  
    
  
  
    
      The Yankee Candle Company (NYSE: YCC) today announced its 2nd Annual 
      "Light a Candle for Your Heart"™ 
      Program in support of the American Heart Association's national Go Red 
      for Women movement. The program includes in-store, web, and corporate 
      activities, and is designed to increase women's awareness of heart 
      disease, raise funds, and inspire women to develop heart healthy lives.
    
    
      Heart disease is the #1 killer of adult women in the United States 
      claiming a life every minute according to the American Heart Association.
    
    
      A $1.00 donation will be made for each purchase of the 
      specially-designed Go Red Yankee Candles. Featuring the ever-popular 
      Macintosh scent, this limited-edition red candle includes a special 
      label highlighting the American Heart Association's Go Red movement. 
      Additionally, Yankee Candle will make a $1.00 donation for all other 
      purchases of select red candles during Heart Month in February including 
      top-selling scents such as Macintosh, Macintosh & Peach, Juicy 
      Watermelon, Sweet Strawberry, Cranberry Chutney, and Mandarin Cranberry. 
      Yankee Candle customers also will receive a special AHA Red Dress Gift 
      Tag for additional donations they make.
    
    
      Rick Ruffolo, Senior Vice President of Brand, Marketing, and Innovation 
      for Yankee Candle, commented, "Yankee Candle is committed to helping 
      address this broad-reaching health concern as it is very relevant to our 
      customers. We have expanded our successful 2006 program in 2007 with the 
      goal of raising over $100,000 across the two years. Each of us can make 
      important lifestyle decisions to improve our heart health such as 
      incorporating regular exercise, eating right, and even relaxing. The 
      positive benefits of taking a moment to light a candle each day to 
      unwind and help release the stresses of the day cannot be overlooked."
    
    
      Andrew Buroker, American Heart Association’s 
      Board Chairman states, “Without the support 
      from respected brands like Yankee Candle, we could not educate and share 
      this lifesaving message with millions of women about heart disease. 
      Together we can encourage women to fight and take action against their 
      No. 1 killer.”
    
    
      For more information about the Yankee Candle "Light a Candle for Your 
      Heart" Program including how you can help, please go to either www.yankeecandle.com 
      or www.goredforwomen.org.
    
    
      About Yankee Candle
    
    
      The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. is the leading designer, manufacturer, 
      wholesaler and retailer of premium scented candles, based on sales, in 
      the giftware industry. Yankee has a 37-year history of offering 
      distinctive products and marketing them as affordable luxuries and 
      consumable gifts. The Company sells its products through a North 
      American customer network of approximately 17,400 store locations, a 
      growing base of Company owned and operated retail stores (420 located in 
      43 states as of December 30, 2006 including 16 Illumination Stores), 
      direct mail catalogs, its Internet websites (www.yankeecandle.com, 
      www.aromanaturals.com and www.illuminations.com 
      ), international distributors and to a European customer network of 
      approximately 2,500 store locations (through its distribution center 
      located in Bristol, England).