APN and PMP announced last week that they had signed an exclusive 10-year contract for PMP to print APN’s national magazines portfolio – including New Zealand Women’s Weekly, Listener, and Crème – and the gloss magazines and property guides inserted into its newspapers, such as the flagship NZ Morning Herald.
PMP chief executive Richard Allely told ProPrint the win was “a great outcome” for the company following the loss of the ACP work.
“This contract will deliver volume which more than fills the gap left by ACP,” he said.
Blue Star announced in August that it had won all of ACP’s consumer and trade magazine work for New Zealand.
According to Allely, PMP stopped doing half of its ACP work at the start of this month, and will stop doing the remaining half on 1 July 2011.
The movement of the APN contract to PMP, which follows APN’s decision to close its Manukau plant, will take effect on 1 December.
Allely said PMP wouldn’t need to “gear up” too much to accommodate the incoming work, but that it was currently looking at purchasing “one additional press” for its Wiri site south of Auckland, which will handle all of the APN work.
Allely said more details about the purchase will be revealed when the company announces its transformation plan for the New Zealand market at its AGM on 12 November.
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