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At a ceremony last night at The Water Club in New York attended by Spafax Publisher Lyne Farley, the Custom Content Council awarded 10 Pearl Awards for Excellence in Custom Content to our publications.

We’re really excited about the breadth of Spafax editorial and design output represented by these awards – everything from SIPs to sites. Congrats to the Montreal, Santiago and Toronto editorial teams for their usual brilliance (not to mention blood, sweat and tears!).

Last but not least, the clients represented by these awards give us support, encouragement and direction and deserve a huge round of applause: LAN Airlines, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and Air Canada.

For more information, please contact Lyne Farley in Montreal (lfarley@spafax.com) or Paula Fontaine in Santiago (pfontaine@spafax.com).

Awards

enRoute – Bronze Winner
Editorial, Best Special Issue Food

enRoute Iron Chef – Bronze Winner
Digital, Best Integrated Print and Web Program

Fairmont – Silver Winner
Design,  Best Cover 50,000-250,000

enRoute – Gold Winner
Editorial, Best Overall Editorial, 50,000-250,000

onAir – Gold Winner
Digital, Best E-Newsletter

in-lan.com -Silver Winner
Digital, Best Overall Web Design

in – Silver Winner
Editorial Best Overall Editorial, 50,000-250,000

in – Gold Winner
Design, Best Cover, 50,000-250,000

in – Monochromatic Cuisine – Gold Winner
Design, Best Use of Photography 50,000-250,000

in Wines – Gold Winner
Editorial, Best New Magazine

Our publishing teams in Santiago, Chile, and Montreal, Canada have won 11 Magnum Opus Awards for the editorial and design excellence of enRoute magazine and IN magazine.

We’re especially excited about the Special Recognition award to enRoute magazine – a top honour!

These awards aren’t just a testament to the talent and creativity of our publishing teams – but to the support of our clients, Air Canada and LAN Airlines.

IN, published by Spafax Medios y Publicidad, Santiago, Chile:

• Best Cover (Food Issue) (Bronze) OCTOBER 2009
• Best Cover (5th Anniversary issue) (Honorable Mention) MAY 2009
• Best Cover (Online Connection) (Honorable Mention) JULY 2009
• Best Use of Illustration/Single Feature (The Party’s Always on in Latin America) (Honorable Mention) MAY 2009
• Best InfoGraphics (Selecting the National Team) (Silver) NOVEMBER 2009
• Best InfoGraphics (Stargazing Wines) (Bronze) JUNE 2009

enRoute, published by Spafax Canada, Toronto & Montreal, Canada:

• Print Magazine External Audience (Special Recognition) DECEMBER 2009
• Best Overall Design 4+ color (Gold) NOVEMBER 2009
• Best Cover (Silver) FEBRUARY 2009
• Best Use of Illustration Single Feature (Restaurant Trends 2009) (Honorable Mention) NOVEMBER 2009, by Anselmo Swan
• Best Use of Photography Single Feature(Bronze) (Buenos Aires Social Club) DECEMBER 2009, by Lorne Bridgeman

Paula Fontaine and our Santiago publishing team have outdone themselves with in-Wines, the only magazine about the South American “wine lifestyle”. It’s distributed exclusively in Premium Business Class aboard LAN Airlines and is further testament to Chile and Argentina’s emergence as sophisticated producers of award winning wines. in-Wines also helps cement LAN’s position as the best carrier to, from and within South America.

The first edition of in-Wines includes essays by Chilean Master Sommelier Héctor Vergara, serving and pairing tips, a wine “tasting class”, wine reviews and several travel features including Chilean and Argentinian wine routes. Unexpected features like “Women of the Vine”, highlighting a new breed of oenologist, round out this very unique 3x yearly publication which we hope will be 6x yearly soon.

In-Wines builds upon the success of LAN’s in Magazine, also published by Spafax, which has won more international awards for editorial and graphic excellence than any other publication in South America.

For more information on in-Wines or if you’d like to advertise, click here.

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