Exhibit 99

Forward-Looking Information

The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe
harbor" for forward-looking statements. The Yankee Candle Company, Inc.
("Yankee Candle" or the "Company") Form 10-K, Annual Report to
Stockholders, any Form 10-Q or Form 8-K of the Company, or any other oral
or written statements made by or on behalf of the Company, may include
forward-looking statements which reflect the Company's current views with
respect to future events and financial performance. These forward-looking
statements are identified by their use of such terms and phrases as
"intends," "intend," "intended," "goal," "estimate," "estimates,"
"expects," "expect," "expected," "project," "projects," "projected,"
"projections," "plans," "anticipates," "anticipated," "should," "designed
to," "foreseeable future," "believe," "believes," and "scheduled" and
similar expressions. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on
these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date the
statement was made. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update
or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise. The actual results of the Company
may differ significantly from the results discussed in forward-looking
statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include but are not
limited to: (a) the general political, economic and competitive conditions
in the United States and abroad; (b) changes in capital availability or
costs, such as changes in interest rates; (c) market perceptions of the
industry in which the Company operates, or security ratings; (d) government
regulation; (e) authoritative generally accepted accounting principles or
policy changes from such standard-setting bodies as the Financial
Accounting Standards Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission, and
the factors set forth below.

WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GROW OUR BUSINESS AS PLANNED.

We intend to continue to pursue a business strategy of increasing sales and
earnings by expanding our retail and wholesale operations both in the
United States and internationally. Our retail growth strategy depends in
large part on our ability to open new stores in both existing and new
geographic markets. Since we are planning to open more stores each year
than we have in the past, we may not be able to achieve our planned growth
or sustain our financial performance. Our ability to implement our growth
strategy successfully will also be dependent in part on factors beyond our
control, including changes in consumer preferences and in our competitive
environment. Our ability to anticipate changes in the candle and giftware
industries, and identify industry trends will be critical factors in our
ability to remain competitive.

We expect that, as we grow, it will become more difficult to maintain our
growth rate. We cannot assure you that we will continue to grow at a rate
comparable to our historic growth rate or that our historic financial
performance will continue as we grow.

WE FACE SIGNIFICANT COMPETITION IN THE GIFTWARE INDUSTRY, WHICH COULD
ADVERSELY AFFECT OUR FUTURE OPERATING RESULTS, FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
LIQUIDITY AND OUR ABILITY TO CONTINUE TO GROW OUR BUSINESS.

We compete generally for the disposable income of consumers with other
producers in the $47 billion giftware industry. The giftware industry is
highly competitive with a large number of both large and small
participants. Our products compete with other scented and unscented candle
products and with other gifts within a comparable price range, like boxes
of candy, flowers, wine, fine soap and related merchandise. Our retail
stores compete with franchised candle store chains, specialty candle stores
and gift and houseware retailers. Some of our competitors are part of
large, diversified companies which have greater financial resources and a
wider range of product offerings than we do. This competitive environment
could adversely affect our future revenues and profits, financial condition
and liquidity and our ability to continue to grow our business.

WE INCURRED INDEBTEDNESS IN CONNECTION WITH OUR 1998 RECAPITALIZATION, AND
SERVICING OUR INDEBTEDNESS COULD REDUCE FUNDS AVAILABLE TO GROW OUR
BUSINESS.

Although we believe that our cash flow from operations and our available
financing should be sufficient to meet our anticipated requirements for
growing our business and servicing our debt, our level of long-term
indebtedness could reduce funds available to grow our business in the
future.

OUR SUCCESS DEPENDS ON OUR SENIOR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, THE LOSS OF WHOM
COULD DISRUPT OUR BUSINESS.

Our success is substantially dependent upon the retention of our senior
executive officers. We do not have employment agreements with any of our
senior executive officers, except our Chief Financial Officer. If our
senior executive officers become unable or unwilling to participate in the
business of Yankee Candle, our future business and financial performance
could be materially affected.

BECAUSE WE ARE NOT A DIVERSIFIED COMPANY AND ARE DEPENDENT UPON ONE
INDUSTRY, WE HAVE LESS FLEXIBILITY IN REACTING TO UNFAVORABLE CONSUMER
TRENDS, ADVERSE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OR BUSINESS CYCLES.

THE LOSS OF OUR MANUFACTURING FACILITY WOULD DISRUPT OUR OPERATIONS.

We rely exclusively on our manufacturing facility in Whately, Massachusetts
to produce our candle products. Because most of our machinery is designed
or customized by us to manufacture our products and because we have strict
quality control standards for our products, the loss of our manufacturing
facility, due to natural disaster or otherwise, would materially affect our
operations. Although our manufacturing facility is adequately insured, we
believe it would take a minimum of nine months to replace the plant and
machinery to a level equivalent to their current level of production and
quality control standards.

WE MAY EXPERIENCE A DECLINE IN OUR RETAIL COMPARABLE STORE SALES, WHICH
COULD CAUSE THE PRICE OF OUR COMMON STOCK TO DROP.

Our comparable store sales from our retail business have contributed
significantly to our overall sales growth. Our retail comparable store
sales could be adversely impacted by competition or our inability to
execute our business strategy. If our retail comparable store sales
declined for any reason, we could experience a loss in our revenues and
income, which could lower the price of our common stock.

SEASONAL AND QUARTERLY FLUCTUATIONS IN OUR BUSINESS COULD AFFECT THE MARKET
FOR OUR COMMON STOCK.

Our revenues and operating results vary from quarter to quarter. We have
historically realized higher revenues and operating income in our fourth
quarter, particularly in our retail business, which is becoming a larger
portion of our sales. We believe that this has been due primarily to an
increase in giftware industry sales during the holiday season of the fourth
quarter. As a result of this seasonality, we believe that quarter to
quarter comparisons of our operating results are not necessarily meaningful
and that these comparisons cannot be relied upon as indicators of future
performance. In addition, we may also experience quarterly fluctuations in
our revenues and income depending on how many new retail stores we open in
a particular quarter. These quarterly fluctuations that we may report in
the future may not match the expectations of market analysts and investors.
This could cause the trading price of our common stock to fluctuate.

WE ARE CONTROLLED BY FORSTMANN LITTLE & CO. AND OUR MANAGEMENT, WHOSE
INTERESTS MAY CONFLICT WITH THOSE OF OTHER STOCKHOLDERS.

Partnerships affiliated with Forstmann Little & Co. and our management
together own approximately 74% of our outstanding common stock and control
us. Accordingly, they are able to:

    - elect our entire board of directors,

    - control our management and policies, and

    - determine, without the consent of our other stockholders, the
      outcome of any corporate transaction or other matter submitted to our
      stockholders for approval, including mergers, consolidations and the
      sale of all or substantially all of our assets.

They are also able to prevent or cause a change in control of Yankee Candle
and are able to amend our Articles of Organization and By-Laws at any time.
The interests of the Forstmann Little partnerships and our management also
may conflict with the interests of the other holders of common stock.

YEAR 2000 FAILURES MAY ADVERSELY IMPACT OUR OPERATIONS.

Our business could be adversely affected by information technology issues
related to the Year 2000. The Year 2000 issue is a broad business issue,
whose impact may extend beyond traditional computer hardware and software
to possible failure of our plant systems, as well as to third parties. If
any of our systems are not Year 2000 compliant or if our customers or
suppliers fail to achieve Year 2000 compliance, we may experience the
following adverse consequences:

     - our customers may be unable to place orders with us due either to
       our system failures or to those of our customers,

     - we may be unable to bill our customers and maintain adequate
       production scheduling, inventory cost accounting and other elements of
       our business that are dependent upon computer systems, and

     - we may be unable to deliver our products on a timely basis.

The ability of third parties with whom we do business to address adequately
their Year 2000 issues is outside our control.