Media Rivals Mull Scope For Sharing NZ Printing Presses

Posted: 9/8/2011  |  By: The New Zealand Herald

Rivalries in the New Zealand newspaper industry, dominated by APN News & Media and Fairfax Media, are being put aside as publishers start discussing whether to join a global trend of sharing printing presses to better use capital equipment.

Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association chief executive Mark Hollands told BusinessDesk he wasn't surprised when APN told analysts last month that it was in talks about sharing printing assets in New Zealand, in a move analogous to airline code-sharing arrangements.