|  Montreal,
June 15, 2007 - Transcontinental Media publications Canadian
Gardening and The Hockey News were awarded Best
Magazine of the Year, while Aldona Satterthwaite of Canadian
Gardening received an Editor of the Year award, at The
Canadian Society of Magazine Editors 2007 Editors’ Choice
Awards held at a ceremony in Toronto.
Canadian Gardening and The Hockey News
won in the categories of large and medium circulation magazines,
respectively.
“We are very proud to have Canadian Gardening
and The Hockey News each recognized as a Best Magazine
of the Year by The Canadian Society of Magazine Editors,”
said Natalie Larivière, President, Transcontinental
Media. “To have two magazines recognized as leaders
in their class is truly remarkable. To also have Aldona Satterthwaite
of Canadian Gardening receive an editor of the year
award only adds to the pride felt by all our employees.”
As Canada’s leading publisher of consumer magazines,
Transcontinental produces aesthetically appealing magazines
that deliver relevant content to readers in the areas of fashion
and beauty, home and garden, sports and recreation, financial
and business information, as well as trade publications.
“To have been selected by my peers as an editor of
the year is, in many ways, more reward than the award itself,
because they understand what it takes to produce a great magazine,”
said Aldona Satterthwaite, editor, Canadian Gardening.
“All of us at Canadian Gardening are deeply
honoured that The Canadian Society of Magazine Editors has
recognized the high standards the magazine holds itself to—on
behalf of our valued readers.”
Canadian Gardening and The Hockey News
are available by subscription and at newsstands across Canada,
as well as online at www.canadiangardening.com
and www.thehockeynews.com.
About Transcontinental Media
The fourth-largest print media group in Canada, with more
than 3,000 employees and annual revenues of $580 million
in 2006, Transcontinental Media is the country’s leading
publisher of consumer magazines and French-language educational
resources as well as the largest publisher of community newspapers
in Eastern Canada. It publishes the weekday daily Métro
in Montreal and is, through Publi-Sac, Quebec’s leading
door-to-door distributor of advertising material. It also
owns a number of digital business units. Transcontinental
Media is a subsidiary of Transcontinental Inc. (TSX: TCL.A,
TCL.B), which has more than 14,500 employees in Canada, the
United States and Mexico and reported revenues of C$2.3 billion
in 2006.
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For information:
Media
Pierre Leduc
Media Relations
Telephone: (416) 859-8562
pleduc@tsa.ca
Financial Community
Jennifer F. McCaughey
Director, Investor Relations
Transcontinental Inc.
Telephone: (514) 954-2821
jennifer.mccaughey@transcontinental.ca
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