Bay of Plenty Times

The Bay of Plenty Times is a regional daily newspaper in New Zealand, based in Tauranga. She ranks amongst one of the largest daily newspapers in the country.

History

The Bay of Plenty Times was first published on 4 September 1872 in a 14-day publication. Four pages in tabloid format cost at that time three pence. The newspaper of William Bartleet Long Bridge was founded (partly written Bartlett ), who as a printer had less than a year ago along with James Mitchell in Wellington have to declare bankruptcy.

In the following 40 years, the Bay of Plenty Times changed hands several times their owners. One of its early owner was, inter alia, Edward Mortimer Edgcumbe, who took over the newspaper in 1875 and held until 1879. In 1882 he took over alleged the newspaper again and was just at the Tauranga Telegraph, which appeared from 1883 to 1884 in competition with the Bay of Plenty Times, involved. Despite economic difficulties the Bay of Plenty Times was one of the first newspapers in New Zealand, reprinted photographs. 1913 took over the family Gifford and cross the newspaper, as a result, the sheet looked forward to better economic times. On 3 July 1929, the newspaper was registered as a corporation.

With the construction and opening of the port for export in Mount Maunganui in the early 1950s, the importance of the Bay of Plenty Times rose. In 1955 came the first rotary machine used in 1976 to coincide with the use of the first computer of offset printing. In the same year, a fire destroyed the entire archive of the newspaper. The historical expenditure had been but fortunately previously stored on microfilm, which can still be seen on the Alexander Turnbull Library today.

In 1992, Wilson & Horton the sheet and only four years later, the ownership changed renewed, this time in favor of Independent Newspapers PC from Dublin, who had Wilson & Horton acquired in 1996. On 30 November 1997, the newspaper was dissolved as a corporation and integrated into the Group.

Today

Since 1997, the Bay of Plenty Times is owned by the Australian media group APN News & Media. The Independent Newspapers, since 1999 Independent News & Media on the market, had 2014 a share of 29 % of APN News & Media, so that was their largest shareholder, and thus also the largest shareholder in the Bay of Plenty Times.

Booth 2013 reached the newspaper with a circulation of 16,133 copies a 47,000 persons, includes large readership. Yet 2011, the newspaper around 100 permanent employees and 250 part -time workers who were responsible for the distribution of the newspaper in the region. Headquartered in Tauranga, the sheet has four offices in the cities of Katikati, Te Puke, Waihi and Whangamata.

The Bay of Plenty Times produced an additional five so-called free community newspapers ( complimentary newspapers, which are funded by advertising), such as the Bay News, the Te Puke Times, the Katikati Advertiser, the Waihi Leader and the Whangamata Coastal News.