Part of the reason for the move is to encourage the development of new magazine-based products to be distributed with newspaper titles.

APN Chief Executive Brendan Hopkins said the new division – APN New Zealand National Publishing –would be responsible for the publishing of:

The New Zealand Herald, the country’s largest circulating daily newspaper, The Aucklander, a total Auckland market coverage free weekly news magazine, and New Zealand Magazines, which publishes the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, the most read women’s magazine in New Zealand, and the New Zealand Listener, the top-rated current affairs magazine in New Zealand.

APN’s New Zealand regional newspapers will continue to report through the Group’s trans-tasman Regional Publishing Division, led by Chief Executive Martin Simons.

Hopkins says the new management structure would generate operating efficiencies as well as promote the development of new magazine-based products for distribution in APN newspaper titles.

The new Division will report as a single entity, alongside APN’s four other trans-Tasman Divisions: Regional Publishing, Radio, Outdoor Advertising and Commercial Printing.

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