OAG Bags Brand Excellence Award

OAG Bags Brand Excellence Award

April 28, 2007

    KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 11 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- OAG has
been awarded for brand excellence in the Travel Solutions
category in "The BrandLaureate Awards" this week
at the Shangri La Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Fred
Seow, Vice President Asia Pacific, received the award
conferred by The Asia Pacific Brands Foundation.

    The BrandLaureate Awards is an annual event where best
brands in Malaysia and Asia Pacific are recognised. Every
year, a selection committee identifies a list of brands
based on a 300- point judging criteria which includes brand
strategy, culture, communications, equity and performance.
The shortlisted brands are then audited by the Process
Auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers. The winners are finalised
by the Asia Pacific Brands Foundation Board of Governors
headed by YAM Tunku Tan Sri Imran Ibni Tuanku Jaafar. 

    "We are indeed excited and proud to be given this
distinguished award. This recognition is a testament to
OAG's continued efforts in translating our company's vision
and mission into reality. We constantly aspire to meet and
exceed our customers' expectations and look towards
reinforcing OAG's global reputation and expertise in
information management and distribution in the travel and
transportation industry, " commented Fred Seow, Vice
President, Asia Pacific.

    About OAG

    OAG is a global travel and transport information
company.
    
    We have three core activities:

     -- managing and distributing information within the
passenger and cargo 
        aviation sectors
     -- providing travel information to business
travellers
     -- providing advertising and promotion opportunities
for the aviation 
        and travel communities.

    Our business is underpinned by our data management
expertise. We hold a breadth of travel related content and
are best known for our airline schedules database. This
holds future and historical flight details for 1,000
airlines and more than 3,500 airports.  Every ten seconds a
flight is updated on the OAG system. Over the coming year we
are tracking around 27 million departures.
    
    Using these vast databases, we provide a broad range of
multi-lingual products for business and consumer customers,
available in virtually any way the customer wants it: 
Internet, PDA, mobile, digital and print.
    
    OAG has nine offices in Europe, the Americas and Asia.
More information about our company, our products and our
services is available on our other web sites
http://www.oagdata.com and http://www.oagcargo.com .  

    OAG is part of Commonwealth Business Media (
http://www.cbizmedia.com ), a wholly owned subsidiary of
United Business Media plc (
http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com )

    About The Asia Pacific Brands Foundation

    The Asia Pacific Brands Foundation (APBF), a
not-for-profit organisation is dedicated to the promotion
and improvement of branding standards in Malaysia and the
Asia Pacific.
Administered by a Board of Governors, it was set-up in
August 2004, by a group of dedicated professionals who had
a strong interest and desire in nation branding. 

    The APBF's mission is to educate and disseminate the
importance of branding to Malaysian businesses and the
public, with the aim of a branding culture aided by best
practices.






   For further information please contact:

    Fionna Wee
    Regional Marketing Manager
    OAG Worldwide Ltd
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    Eunice Yap
    Vice President - Marketing, Asia Pacific
    OAG Worldwide Ltd
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