RUDY GIULIANI TO BE NAMED BUSINESS LEADER OF THE YEAR" AT YELLOW PAGES PUBLISHERS CONVENTION IN SAN ANTONIO

Media Advisory: Rudy Giuliani Gives Keynote Address March 19 at Yellow Pages Publishers Association in San Antonio; Named Business Leader of the Year. Trade association membes include Verizon, Bell South, Qwest Dex, SBC Communications, Sprint, BellActi Media, Association of Directory Marketers

MEDIA ADVISORY -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   

Media Contacts:
Christopher G. Bacey            
YPPA Director of Communications
(908) 286-2394      
christopher.bacey@yppa.org

Stephanie C. Mangino
Tierney Strategic Communications
(215) 790-4413
smangino@truenorth.com

RUDY GIULIANI TO BE NAMED BUSINESS LEADER OF THE YEAR" AT YELLOW PAGES PUBLISHERS CONVENTION IN SAN ANTONIO

Berkeley Heights, N.J. (March 13, 2002) -- Former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani will accept The Yellow Pages Publishers Associations (YPPA) first-ever Yellow Pages Business Leader of the Year Award on Monday, March 18, at the trade associations annual convention in San Antonio.*

WHO: Rudy Giuliani, Former Mayor of New York City
      
WHAT: Yellow Pages Business Leader of the Year Award Presentation*

WHEN: Monday, March 18, 2002
   8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.

WHERE: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
200 East Market Street
San Antonio, TX      
Executive Assembly -- Street Level

The convention gathers print and electronic publishers, local and national marketers and advertisers, suppliers, and other members of the Yellow Pages industry from around the world. The Yellow Pages is a $25 billion global industry with more than 3.6 million businesses advertising in some 7,200 Yellow Pages directories in the U.S. and North America, in addition to those around the world. More than 5,500 national advertisers and millions of local businesses advertise in the U.S. Yellow Pages.

For more information, please visit the YPPA Web site at www.YPPA.org or contact the Association at (908) 286-2380.

*This event is open to YPPA-credentialed press only. There will be no cameras or recording devices permitted. To obtain YPPA credentials, please fax your name, title, news organization and a photocopy of valid photo identification on company letterhead to Christopher Baceys attention at (908) 286-0620 no later than 5:00 P.M. (Eastern) on Thursday, March 14, 2001.

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