CanWest's Ozzie ops secure new deals

WINNIPEG - CanWest Global's Australian out-of-home ad company, Eye Corp., announced today it won a multi-year contract from Britain's second-largest airport operator, the Manchester Airports Group Plc (MAG), to manage the advertising concessions at the Manchester, Nottingham East Midlands and Humberside Airports, commencing June 1, 2006. Terms of the multi-million-dollar deal were not disclosed. MAG's airports serve approximately 30 million passengers annually. Eye will provide sales and marketing services for all static, digital and ambient advertising displays in all of the airport terminals. "This is a significant moment in Eye's continued growth that will form the cornerstone of our future...