Yellow Book USA

Type: Subsidiary
On the web: http://www.yellowbook.com
Employees: 8,000
Employee growth: 3.9%

Let your fingers do the walking through the Yellow Book, and you will probably end up with a massive hand cramp. Founded in 1930, Yellow Book USA is one of the nation's oldest and largest publishers of yellow pages directories, with nearly 1,000 directories in 47 states and the District of Columbia. The company also operates an online directory, yellowbook.com, that reaches users via computers and mobile phones. The acquisitive, fast-growing company's publications have a total circulation of more than 120 million and an advertiser base of more than 690,000. Yellow Book USA is owned by Yell Group.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending March, 2007:
Sales: $1,931.6M
One year growth: 20.4%

Officers:
President and CEO: Joseph (Joe) Walsh
CFO: Jim Haddad
Chief Sales Officer: Directories & Yellow Pages Publishers

Competitors:
AT&T
Idearc
R.H. Donnelley