Favourite magazine titles set to return
Some of New Zealand’s favourite magazines including the NZ Listener and NZ Woman’s Weekly are set to return to readers.
Australian private equity company Mercury Capital is the new owner of Bauer’s New Zealand magazine titles and says its flagship publications would resume immediately.
The portfolio will consist of Woman’s Day, NZ Woman’s Weekly,
and The Australian Women’s Weekly NZ, along with Your Home & Garden, NZ Listener and Air New Zealand’s magazine Kia Ora.
It will also include websites Now to Love, Homes to Love and Beauty Heaven as well as Property Press,
which resumed publishing shortly after Covid-19 Level 4 restrictions.
Brendon Hill, Bauer ANZ chief executive, said he was delighted to see the return of some of New Zealand’s best known titles.
“The return of our New Zealand operation is a green shoot during a challenging time and hopefully a sign of more positive news to come in the local media industry,” he said.
The local business will be headed up by Stuart Dick as general manager and Sarah Henry as editorial director.
They will be joined by a team of around 40 local editorial and advertising personnel.
Mercury Capital said it had sold additional titles to a variety of publishers.
North & South is going to independent publishers Konstantin Richter and Verena Friederike Hasel and Metro to Simon Chesterman. Both magazines will resume publication as soon as possible.
The future of Bauer’s remaining titles, Next, Taste, Fashion Quarterly, Home and Simply You are currently being assessed including a sale to interested parties, Hill said.
Hill said that subscribers that have missed issues of the titles that are resuming will have these added to their subscriptions. Delivery of magazines will resume in early September.