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The Dubai International Advertising Festival, the leading awards for creative excellence in advertising and communications in the Middle East and North Africa, will this year introduce a new accolade to honour the most awarded production company – The Lynx Palm Award.

The National reports on recent negotiations into buying a majority stake in Motivate Publishing by Abraaj Capital, the Abu-Dhabi based equity firm. Motivate Publishing, the Gulf's leading publisher of magazines and books, based in Dubai, are known to produce Middle East editions of Hello! and Campaign magazines.
The two companies started talks nearly a year ago, with intense talks taking place in March and April, the sources said. Motivate is behind titles including Gulf Business, What's On and Emirates Woman, as well as regional editions of Golf Digest and Hello! magazines published under licence from Conde Nast and Hola!
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Corbis, a leading visual media provider for the creative community, today announced that it has selected arabianEye as its representative serving the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Motivate Publishing announced the signing of a joint venture with On Product Publishing International (OPP), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Modern Media Concepts, the global company behind the world's first magazine on a bottle.

The joint venture, called Motivate OPP Middle East will be headed by Thomas Kelly and will operate from Dubai and already has a number of projects in the pipeline for 2008.
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