PMP Limited

The following provides a brief history of each of PMP New Zealand's Divisions:

New Zealand’s Largest Commercial Printing Company.

PMP Print (NZ) is the printing division of PMP New Zealand Limited, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of PMP Limited.  PMP Communications, the forerunner of PMP Limited, was created in 1991 when the commercial printing division of New Limited was broken away into a separate vehicle.  It became a public company in 1992 when it listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Over the next 15 years the company expanded through organic growth and acquisitions to become Australasia’s leading integrated provider of consumer insight and printed communications solutions and Australasia’s largest commercial printer, with its head office in Sydney, Australia.

PMP has a strong printing heritage in New Zealand.  The printing business, founded on the Adams Print and Bascand’s businesses has grown dramatically in the past four years with the addition of First in Print and Times Colour web printing businesses making PMP Print the largest and most well-resourced printer in New Zealand.

PMP Print Solutions 

Nationwide Letterbox Delivery Solutions.

Customer Intelligence.

Pacific Micromarketing opened its doors in West Melbourne in July 1996 and established a New Zealand office in November of the same year.
In 1997, Pacific Micromarketing acquired the database marketing operations of Hermes Precisa Australia and in 1998 launched Mosaic Micro Segments, the most sophisticated target marketing system in the world.

In 2002 a 10-year agreement was signed with Experian, a global information solutions company and supplier of MOSAIC confirming Pacific Micromarketing's position as one of the region's most progressive suppliers of market and customer analytics..

Pacific Micromarketing Solutions  

Magazine, Newspaper & Book Distribution & Retail Management Specialists.

The oldest brand in the PMP group, Gordon & Gotch was formed in 1853 when Alexander Gordon, a 63-year-old Scotsman gave 24-year-old Englishman John Gotch a job selling newspapers and drumming up advertisements. Gotch had previously sailed from America to Australia on board the clipper Peytona. 

Gordon offered Gotch a partnership if he could sell as many newspapers in the goldfields as he sold from his market shack under which they both slept at night.  The newly formed newspaper-delivery business flourished and they soon became partners as Gordon & Gotch with offices established in Sydney, London and Brisbane as the business expanded before the end of the 19th century.
It was not until Gotch was nearing the end of his life in 1899 it was decided to extend the company’s activities to New Zealand. To this end the business of Herbert Baillie & Company in Wellington was acquired.

In New Zealand, the business of the Wellington House had flourished from its inception and in view of the distances to be covered it soon became necessary to open additional branches. These were established in 1902 in Christchurch and in Auckland and Dunedin in 1904.  Eventually Gordon & Gotch were split up and each country’s division (Australia, New Zealand, UK and Canada) were sold off.  Gordon & Gotch in New Zealand continued to operate as a monopoly until 1989 when a company called ‘Network’ was established. Gordon and Gotch purchased Network in 1996.

In 2003, News Corp sold all its newspaper interests and Gordon & Gotch to an Australian newspaper company John Fairfax Limited who in turn sold Gordon & Gotch to the PMP Group (a publicly listed integrated media services company).

Today Gordon & Gotch distribute around 2500 magazines to more than 7000 retail customers.  Gordon & Gotch distribute leading NZ and imported magazine titles from the USA, UK, Australia and Asia.

Quite simply Gordon & Gotch are at the heart of one of the most vibrant, competitive and successful magazine markets in the world.

Gordon & Gotch Press Product Services 

Real Estate & SME Business Specialist Marketing Services.

Discover Create Print & Deliver Model:

• Discover:  PMP Maxum provides a range of unique database marketing tools to help clients discover customer and market insight.
• Create: PMP Maxum provides pre-media services that assist clients to create and design marketing material.
• Print: As the largest print group in New Zealand, PMP can provide web heatset, sheet fed, and digital print.
• Deliver: The PMP group has a national letterbox distribution division and a magazine marketing and distribution division that can deliver marketers and publishers products to their target markets.

The Maxum Corporation was a business that had great capabilities that built on PMP ‘s strengths in Pre-Media and Print production. Post acquisition Maxum was integrated into the PMP New Zealand group and is now located at the Viaduct Harbour office in Auckland.