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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

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.