Eye appoints new boss for global airport business and takes beer brand back to nature

Tim Burrowes

February 12, 2009 1:31

Out of home firm Eye has appointed a new global director, based in Australia, for its airport business.

Jeremy Corfield, previously CEO of Eye’s UK operations, has been appointed to head up Eye Fly, which covers 21 airports throughout Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Eye is owned by the Ten Network.

Gerry Thorley, Eye Group’s CEO said: “With Eye Fly now in five countries we have a large and valuable footprint on which to build and we are confident that Jeremy will direct, lead and grow the Eye Fly product on a global scale.”

Meanwhile Eye’s billboards division has been working with beer brand Cascade for what it claims as an Australian media first – billboards with real, growing pot plants.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.