ELLE Canada and ELLE Québec web sites revitalized

Montreal, June 14, 2005 – Readers of ELLE Québec and ELLE Canada magazines can now extend their pleasure and experience more ELLE on-line. As of this week, the new www.ellecanada.com and www.ellequebec.com sites offer visitors more features than ever before. Women with a passion for style, fashion trends and beauty will now find on-line everything that sets ELLE Canada and ELLE Québec apart on newsstands. The ELLE sites were produced by the new media team at Transcontinental Media and by Marcotte Multimédia, a company specializing in website design and programming.

“We are delighted to be presenting this Web initiative,” says Yves Daoust, Director of On-line Publishing at Transcontinental Media. “It will address various beauty and fashion information needs which are increasingly important to our readers.”

Catherine Gray, Editor-in-Chief of the Transcontinental Media sites for women, says the ELLE sites “are a wonderful online resource for women. Featuring exciting new tools that will enable Canadian women to stay on top of the hottest trends, ellecanada.com is a one-stop online destination for everything fashion- and beauty-related,” she says. “It’s also the beginning of a fantastic community-building initiative. Using forums and poll questions, it’s a great way to communicate with our readers.”

Each week, the new sites offer readers the best ideas in fashion and beauty. The new “Shopping Guide” (in partnership with YellowPages.ca) reveals the best shopping destinations across Canada. In the “Ask ELLE Canada” section, you can ask fashion and beauty questions and get answers directly from industry professionals. The “Fashion & Beauty City Guides” spotlight the best spas, salons and boutiques as rated by the ELLE team. Each month, discover the best home-grown Canadian fashion talent in the “ Canadian Designers Directory”. And for astrology lovers, Georgia Nicols provides free, weekly horoscopes that are sure to delight.

Behind the scenes with ELLE Canada and ELLE Québec
With the new site launch, ELLE Québec.com is taking the opportunity to present an exclusive video, in partnership with Sympatico.MSN.ca, Pecunia, EMI and ColdPlay. This must-see video is produced behind the scenes with the magazine’s entire team and takes readers into the heart of fashion reporting. It will be featured in the fall in ELLE Québec’s pages and will include interviews with fashion directors, photographers, models, and stylists.

Exciting launch contest
To mark this event, ELLE Canada.com in cooperation with EMI, will offer visitors the chance to win a three-day trip to Europe, where winners will attend a ColdPlay concert and meet the musicians! Full contest details are available on the ELLE sites.

About Transcontinental Media
The fourth largest print media group in Canada, with more than 3000 employees and annual revenues of $524 million in 2004, Transcontinental Media is the country’s leading publisher of consumer magazines and the largest publisher of community newspapers in Eastern Canada. This subsidiary of Transcontinental Inc. also publishes the weekday daily Métro in Montreal. It is also, through Publi-Sac, Quebec’s leading door-to-door distributor of advertising material. Transcontinental Media is a subsidiary of Transcontinental Inc. whose shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols TCL.SV.A and TCL.MV.B.

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Information:

Yves Daoust, General Manager, Transcontinental Media (514) 392-2003 e-mail: yves.daoust@transcontinental.ca