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Spafax publications win 12 prizes at the Custom Publishing Council’s Pearl Awards

November 18, 2009 – Spafax, one of the world’s leading providers of custom media solutions, won a dozen prizes at the recent Pearl Awards held in New York, including “best in custom” for enRoute. Produced by the Custom Publishing Council, the Pearls celebrate excellence in the custom publishing and media industry.

enRoute, the inflight magazine of Air Canada, won 5 awards, including the Best in Custom Award. It also collected 2 golds (for best cover and best overall editorial) as well as 2 silver awards. IN, the inflight magazine of LAN, won 4 awards, including 2 golds for Best use of photography and Best tie-in with corporate integrated marketing. OnAir, a monthly e-zine produced for Air Canada, won a gold award for best e-newsletter. Other award winners from Spafax included HomeSpa, for Canadian luxury spa maker BainUltra and Fairmont magazine, for international hotel brand Fairmont Hotels & Resorts.

“We are thrilled with the results,” said Spafax Editorial Director Arjun Basu. “Our print and digital products were recognized for editorial, design and strategy. And then having enRoute win the ‘best in show’ prize was literally the icing on the cake.”

The Pearl Awards are the highest honors bestowed upon custom content and publishing companies in the US. More information about the Custom Publishing Council and the Pearl Awards can be found at www.custompublishingcouncil.com.

About Spafax
Spafax is one of the world’s leading providers of custom media, producing magazines, e-zines, websites as well as providing in-flight content to the world’s airlines. Spafax is a part of the specialist media division of WPP, one of the world’s leading communications companies.

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For more information:
Please contact Arjun Basu at 514-844-2001 or abasu@spafax.com.

enRoute Magazine – enroute.aircanada.com
IN Magazine – in-lan.com
HomeSpa Magazine – homespa-magazine.com
Fairmont Magazine – fairmont.com

Toronto – September 22, 2009 - Spafax, one of the country’s leading providers of custom media, is pleased to announce a travel content agreement with MSN.ca

Spafax will provide custom travel content from its portfolio of  magazine and websites including enRoute and OnAir (Air Canada), Fairmont Magazine (Fairmont Hotels & Resorts), Pure Canada (the Canadian Tourism Commission), HomeSpa (BainUltra) and Review (Investor’s Group) to MSN.ca in both English and French.

After five successful years managing and operating the number one most-visited online portal in Canada in connection with Bell Sympatico (sympatico.msn.ca), Microsoft has announced the launch of MSN.ca – a portal owned and operated exclusively by Microsoft Corporation.

“Spafax is an expert in travel and lifestyle content.. We’re very proud of  the work we are doing with MSN.ca,” says Spafax Editorial Director Arjun Basu. “This agreement benefits our clients, our organization, MSN.ca and all Canadians. It gives everyone access to the great, award-winning travel content that we produce every month.”

About Spafax
Spafax is one of the world’s leading providers of custom media. Magazines published by Spafax include Air Canada’s award-winning enRoute (www.enroute.aircanada.com), and a variety of other titles for clients including the Canadian Tourism Commission, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Mercedes Benz Canada, Bell, Investor’s Group, BainUltra and more, and is recognized as a leading supplier of in-flight entertainment, custom media and advertising sales with clients around the world.  Spafax is a part of the specialist media division of the WPP, one of the world’s leading communications companies.

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For more information:
Please contact Arjun Basu at 514-844-2001 or abasu@spafax.com.

Spafax publications won an astounding 14 awards at the recent NATJA awards. One of the world’s leading providers of custom media, Spafax has long distinguished itself for the quality of its publications.

enRoute, the inflight publication for Air Canada, led the pack with 10 awards. Pure Canada, the custom publication of the Canadian Tourism Commission, won 3 awards, while HomeSpa, a magazine for BainUltra, won 1 award.

Awards included one for overall excellence (Pure Canada), a Grand Prize for International Destination Travel writing (enRoute) and First Place prizes for Pure Canada and enRoute in the Domestic Destination Travel and Personality Profile categories. enRoute and Pure Canada also picked up Merit citations in the Best Travel Magazine category.

Spafax, one of the world’s leading custom publishers and providers of inflight media, with offices in eight cities on four continents.

The North American Travel Journalists Association is the premier professional association of writers, photographers, editors, and tourism professionals dedicated to redefining professional development for the travel industry. For more information about NATJA, go to http://natja.org/about/ and for a complete list of award winners, go to http://new.natja.org/awards

For more information about Spafax contact Arjun Basu, Editorial Director, at 514-844-2001. Or go to http://www.spafax.com. enRoute can be found online at enroute.aircanada.com ; Pure Canada can be found online at http://pure.canada.travel/en_us/; HomeSpa can be found at http://www.homespa-magazine.com/2008/11/