Nestle - Contract Win

Immedia Broadcasting plc 02 February 2005 2 February 2004 IMMEDIA BROADCASTING PLC Exclusive advertising contract with Nestle and sales team expansion Immedia, the provider of live tailored radio stations for retailers, is pleased to announce it has signed an exclusive advertising contract with Nestle on its 'Impulse Live' radio station. Following a series of successful advertising campaigns such as Smarties Bar, KitKat and Polo on Impulse Live, Nestle will now become the station's exclusive chocolate and sugar confectionery advertiser for 2005. The deal enables Nestle to rotate brand campaigns throughout the year through a mix of adverts, live presenter product endorsements, trade interviews, competition sponsorship and feature branding. Nestle's first campaign is to support their KitKash promotion. 'Impulse Live' is broadcast to the impulse convenience sector, including Texaco, Londis and Spar stores. Reaching 20 million shoppers a week, it is the largest in-store media tool in the UK and offers advertisers exciting opportunities to reach consumers whilst they are actively making purchase decisions. Graham Walker, Sales Communications Manager, Nestle Rowntree, commented: 'The campaigns we have run so far on Impulse Live radio station have proved very successful, delivering average sales uplift of more than 25% on brands advertised. We believe the station is a very efficient medium for us to add value to our brand advertising and trade marketing and boost sales. We are looking forward to continued success by working with Immedia.' Immedia is also pleased to announce it is expanding its sales team through an outsourcing agreement with Unique Media Sales who will set up a sales team to develop media sales for its radio live stations, including 'Impulse Live'. Sue Wills will be heading the team at Unique. On the partnership, Sue Wills, Head of Brand Development, commented: 'In-store digital media is being increasingly recognised by big brands and agencies as a powerful media channel to influence consumers brand choices at the point of purchase and to drive sales. I believe the medium will see substantial growth over the coming years and by creating a dedicated media sales team we look forward to sharing in the successes with Immedia at this exciting time.' Bruno Brookes, CEO of Immedia, added: 'We are delighted by Nestle's decision to sign its first exclusive advertising contract with Impulse Live and look forward to continuing to deliver great results for their brands. Nestle's commitment is further testament that live, tailored in-store radio is an effective way to influence consumers and is an important advertising medium of the future. We are also delighted to have partnered with Unique to expand our sales team. As we accelerate our development, Unique's sales expertise will be invaluable to maximise our advertising revenues'. For further information please contact: Immedia Broadcasting Plc Bruno Brookes - Chief Executive 01635 572 800 gcg hudson sandler Nick Lyon / Sandrine Gallien 020 7796 4133 Notes to Editors Immedia Broadcasting PLC creates live, tailored radio stations for major retailers. These stations engage and educate staff and customers and have proved to be a powerful and instantly flexible media channel to drive sales. Existing stations are: • 'Impulse Live' for - Texaco - Londis - Mills - Costcutter - Spar - Star • 'LloydsPharmacy Live', broadcast to the largest community pharmacy operator in the UK; • 'Vitus Apotek', broadcast in Norwegian to pharmacy retail stores in Norway; • 'Dixons Live' broadcast to more than 200 Dixons' stores; About Nestle: Nestle is the world's largest food and beverage company, with sales of over £38 billion in 2003. Nestle has its headquarters in Vevey (Switzerland), runs 511 factories in 86 countries and employs 253,000 people of over 100 nationalities. Nestle has a wide-ranging product portfolio including beverages, milk products, nutrition products, ice cream, breakfast cereals, prepared dishes, cooking aids, bottled water, chocolate, confectionery, biscuits, petcare and pharmaceuticals. Nestle owns around 8,500 brands worldwide such as Nescafe, Vittel, Nesquik, Shredded Wheat, Buitoni, Ski, Carnation, KitKat and Quality Street. Nestle also has an important interest in L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics company. About Unique: Unique Communications Group specialises in broadcast, event and publishing solutions for both clients and media owners. UCG is also a leading producer of TV programming for all terrestrial and digital channels with its most well know show being the British Comedy Awards. Using this expertise UCG offers clients TV solutions, specifically Advertiser Generated Programming. UCG runs two media sales companies including Unique Media Sales and Media Sales Network which was established 24 years ago. UMS clients include Hachette Magazines (Elle, Elle Decoration, Red, TV hits, Inside Soap) UMS are responsible for regional sales of Emaps Performance and Esprit titles (FHM, New Women, Zoo, max Power, Heat, Closer, More, Smash Hits, Today's Golfer to name but a few). This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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