Global Focus on Customer Sectors EAST WINDSOR, N.J., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Commonwealth Business Media (CBM), the leading information provider to the global trade and transportation market, today announced a major restructure of its OAG business, designed to bring greater global focus on serving its customers in the aviation, cargo and corporate travel industries worldwide. The OAG business will operate globally in three vertical sectors: Aviation Services, Cargo Services and Travel Services, and integrate the specialist knowledge and expertise of CBM's other leading aviation brand, BACK Aviation Solutions (BACK). Alan Glass, President & CEO of CBM will continue to serve as CEO of OAG. Glass has announced today his senior management team effective immediately for the new OAG organization, which was acquired by CBM parent United Business Media plc in December 2006. Steven Casley, currently President of BACK Aviation Solutions and with over 25 years of management experience in the aviation market, is appointed Chief Operating Officer of OAG. In this role he will be responsible for leading the business integration, strategic planning and market development. He will retain his role as President of BACK, based in New Haven, Connecticut. Stephen Bray, currently Managing Director, Product Service is appointed as Managing Director, Operations, for OAG Worldwide. Based at OAG's office in Dunstable, UK, Bray will be responsible for all operational activity for the OAG and BACK businesses as well as customer service and fulfillment. Bray has been with OAG since 2001. John Weber is appointed as Managing Director, Aviation Services, based in New Haven. This new group combines the aviation data services groups of BACK and OAG into one unit, bringing together OAG's global data services and MAX suite of data analysis solutions with BACK's worldwide aircraft fleet, financial and traffic data. Weber has been in the aviation data business for more than 20 years, most recently as VP Sales at BACK and formerly as VP of Airline Business for OAG. David Rosen has been named Managing Director, Travel Services, also based in New Haven. Rosen is currently a principal at Nextfeed LLC, a firm that facilitates travel spending analysis for corporations worldwide. Rosen brings an extensive level of experience in distribution planning, market management and sales and information technology having worked for both United Airlines and US Airways. Mike Navin is appointed as Interim Managing Director, Cargo Services. Navin has been working with OAG in a consultancy role for the last year and will be leading our business expansion plans for serving the cargo community. Duncan Alexander, formerly Managing Director for OAG's EMEA region has been appointed VP Business Development & Industry Relations. He will assist in the reorganization process with specific emphasis on market development activities. Bill Andres, formerly SVP OAG Americas, will be working with the OAG management team on special projects and new product development. Joe Laughlin, Vice President Sales will take over the day-to-day management of OAG's Chicago sales office, Continuing in their current roles are Mario Hardy, Vice President/ASPAC (Singapore), Scott Daniels Vice President/Asset Management (New Haven) and Tulinda Larsen Managing Director, Analytical Services (Newark). Bart Jan Haasbeek and Dirk de Rooij of Inforwarding (OAG Dutch acquisition) will continue to play pivotal roles in OAG's cargo business. CEO Alan Glass commented: "OAG has tremendous brand strength within the travel and transportation industries, renowned for being the world authority on flight information. It is my intention to grow the OAG and BACK businesses into a truly customer-centric organization, with customer needs at the heart of our product development and service delivery. The reorganization announced today will drive our strategy to turn the OAG business into a more profitable data and analytics business serving all segments of the aviation and travel markets by operating in business verticals that are directly related to how our customers buy and use our products and services. "Travel and transportation is a global industry and we have customers on all continents for each of our business units. With this new management team now in place, we can pool our strengths and expertise to deliver real value to our customers, ensuring our portfolio is aligned to meeting customer needs across all our sectors and all geographies." About Commonwealth Business Media Commonwealth Business Media, Inc., a subsidiary of United Business Media plc, is the leading information provider to the global trade and transportation market with comprehensive proprietary data, news and analytical content. Its leading brands include The Journal of Commerce, PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions, BACK Aviation Solutions, Air Cargo World, Traffic World, OAG and Aviation Industry Group, a number of directory databases covering the international trade, railroad and trucking markets. The Company also produces more than 30 conferences serving the international trade, aviation and maritime markets. Commonwealth is headquartered in East Windsor, New Jersey, with offices in Newark, San Francisco, New Haven, Long Beach, Atlanta, Montreal, Toronto, Washington, DC, Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa, Singapore, Hong Kong, London and Dunstable. For more information on Commonwealth Business Media, Inc. and the products they offer, visit http://www.cbizmedia.com/ or call 800-221-5488. About OAG OAG is a global flight information and data solutions company for the passenger aviation, air cargo logistics and business travel markets. It brings together buyers and sellers of air travel and transport through the management and distribution of airline product information; the supply of corporate travel planning tools; and the promotion of travel and transport products. OAG's business is underpinned by its data management expertise. It holds a breadth of travel related content and is best known for its 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 it will track around 28 million departures. More information about the company, its products and its services is available on the OAG web sites http://www.oag.com/, http://www.oagdata.com/ and http://www.oagcargo.com/. About BACK Aviation BACK Aviation Solutions (BACK) specializes in providing strategic and technical consulting and data information services to the aviation industry. The firms maintain the world's largest value-added transportation data collection, comprising more than twenty years of data history, and also provide a full range of technical and strategic consulting services. The firm's transportation specialists have been drawn from airline management, academia, government, and related areas. This experience is augmented with technical expertise in applied operations research, finance, marketing, information technology and database management, strategic planning, and statistical analysis. The company's continuous growth has been due in part to repeat business from an established client base, which demonstrates a high degree of customer satisfaction. More information about the company, its products and its services is available at http://www.backaviation.com/. DATASOURCE: Commonwealth Business Media CONTACT: Jill Rodby, Vice President Communications of Commonwealth Business Media, +1-415-847-6768, Web site: http://www.cbizmedia.com/ http://www.oag.com/ http://www.backaviation.com/

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