Paris, September 21, 2006 – JCDecaux (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company in Europe and in the Asia-Pacific region, and number two worldwide today announced that following public tenders it has renewed six street furniture contracts in the Ile-de-France region recent months. The towns in question have a total population of more than 150,000.
These contracts incorporate nearly 500 2m² advertising panels, and 65 8m² advertising panels. The municipalities that chose JCDecaux are: Les Clayes-sous-Bois, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, Le Pecq, Meaux, Rungis and Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The street furniture installed in these towns was either designed by JCDecaux (the Hydra and Millenium models), or created by internationally renowned designers and architects: Philip Cox and Sir Norman Foster.
Commentating on the contract renewals Jean-Charles Decaux, Chairman of the Executive Board and co-CEO of JCDecaux, said: “These renewals are further evidence of JCDecaux’s commitment to quality, innovation and sustainable development in the area of Street Furniture and they reinforce our market leading position in outdoor advertising in France. Renewing these contracts will allow us to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our network in the Ile-de-France region. This will in turn ensure that advertisers have greater exposure to their highly mobile target audience within the Paris region where, on average, 36.7 million journeys are made everyday.”