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Aimia Named to the 10th Annual MeetingsNet CMI 25 List

T.AIM | September 8, 2016

Aimia Named to the 10th Annual MeetingsNet CMI 25 List

Aimia Inc. (TSX: AIM), a data-driven marketing and loyalty analytics company, announced it has been named to the 2016 CMI 25 MeetingsNet list of the largest and most influential full-service meeting and incentive travel management companies, focused on the U.S. corporate meetings and incentives industry.

“Client satisfaction is number one to us,” said Kurt Paben, President of U.S. Channel and Employee Loyalty at Aimia. “We credit this standing to our strong client relationships and commitment to helping them achieve outstanding business results year over year. We are grateful to be recognized by MeetingsNet for this tremendous honor.”

Now in its 10^th year, the CMI 25 list is a unique resource for meeting managers, incentive travel executives, and procurement professionals who need outsourcing partners to orchestrate events around the globe with professionalism and creativity. The full list will be published in the September 2016 issue of the MeetingsNet tablet magazine (http://meetingsnet.com/app-registration) and digital edition, and on www.meetingsnet.com.

Aimia believes stronger relationships improve business performance and profitability. We provide event strategy, event management, sponsorship support, data analytics and innovative technology solutions for our clients’ conferences, incentive/motivational travel, sales kickoffs, Strategic Meetings Management programs and other special events. Our goal is to turn our clients’ employees, channel partners and business customers into people who sell more, stay with their brand longer and invest more with them.

Aimia’s clients share their experiences on what makes Aimia a true partner in motivational travel, strategic meetings management and conferences.

About Aimia

Aimia Inc. (TSX:AIM) is a data-driven marketing and loyalty analytics company. We provide our clients with the customer insights they need to make smarter business decisions and build relevant, rewarding and long-term one-to-one relationships with their customers, channel partners and employees, evolving the value exchange to the mutual benefit of both our clients and consumers.

With about 3,200 employees across 17 countries, Aimia partners with groups of companies (coalitions) and individual companies to help generate, collect and analyze customer data and build actionable insights.

We do this through our own coalition loyalty programs such as Aeroplan in Canada, Nectar in the UK, and Air Miles Middle East, and through provision of loyalty strategy, event, engagement and sales enablement strategies, program development, implementation and management services underpinned by leading products and technology platforms such as the Aimia Loyalty Platform – Enterprise and Aimia Loyalty Platform – SaaS, and through our analytics and insights business, including Intelligent Shopper Solutions. In other markets, we own stakes in loyalty programs, such as Club Premier in Mexico and Think Big, a partnership with Air Asia and Tune Group. Our clients are diverse, and we have industry-leading expertise in the fast-moving consumer goods, retail, financial services, automotive, technology, healthcare and travel and airline industries globally to deliver against their unique needs.

For a full list of our partnerships and investments, and more information about Aimia, visit http://www.aimia.com/.