q.media Decaux Awarded Advertising Contract for the Prestigious Villaggio Mall in Qatar

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Tue Jul 7, 2009 3:30am EDT

PARIS--(Business Wire)--
Regulatory News: 

JCDecaux SA (Paris:DEC), the No.1 outdoor advertising company in Europe and in
the Asia-Pacific region, No.2 worldwide in this industry, announces today that
q.media Decaux (a joint venture between q.media and JCDecaux) has been awarded a
10-year contract for Villaggio mall, the most prestigious and highly frequented
mall in Doha, the capital of Qatar. 

Boasting a floor area of 153,000 sqm with over 3,500 parking spaces, Villaggio
houses a collection of international high-end brands and is expected to receive
around 14 million footfall in 2009. Resembling an Italian hill town, this
heavily themed mall features a 150-meter long indoor canal with gondolas. Other
facilities include a cinema, an Olympic-sized ice rink and an upcoming family
entertainment centre. 

Jean-Charles Decaux, co-CEO of JCDecaux, said: "We are very proud to be awarded
this key contract by Business Trading Company. Our business in the Middle East
has been posing impressive performance. This new concession in Qatar represents
an additional strategic communication solution for our clients in the region,
just as what JCDecaux is offering over 1,000 malls worldwide." 

Abdul Aziz Bin M. Al-Rabban, Chairman and CEO of Business Trading Company, owner
of the mall, said: "Villaggio is the most popular shopping and leisure
destination in town. I am confident that with the expertise of q.media Decaux,
the shopping ambience will be further uplifted, offering enhanced experience to
customers while bringing better return to tenants." 

JCDecaux Group, key figures:

- 2008 revenues: €2,168.6m ; Q1 Revenues : €424.6m
- JCDecaux is listed on the Eurolist of Euronext Paris and is part of the
Euronext 100, Dow Jones Sustainability and FTSE4Good indexes
- No.1 worldwide in street furniture (378,000 advertising panels)
- No.1 worldwide in transport advertising with 165 airports and more than 300
transport contracts in metros, buses, trains and tramways (329,500 advertising
panels)
- No.1 in Europe for billboards (224,500 advertising panels)
- No.1 in outdoor advertising in the Asia-Pacific region (201,700 advertising
panels in 44 cities)
- No.1 worldwide for self-service bicycle hire
- 936,000 advertising panels in 55 different countries
- Present in more than 3,400 cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants
- 9,400 employees





Communications Department
Press Relations
Agathe Albertini
Tel.: +33 (0)1 30 79 34 99
Fax: +33 (0)1 30 79 75 39
agathe.albertini@jcdecaux.fr
or
Corporate Finance Department
Investor Relations
Martin Sabbagh
Tel.: +33 (0)1 30 79 79 93
Fax: +33 (0)1 30 79 77 91
martin.sabbagh@jcdecaux.fr



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