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Top 13 Publishing companies based in New Zealand

RevenueBase identified 48 publishing companies headquartered in New Zealand as of September 2026 and tracks 276 professional contacts across them, including 72 with verified work emails and 15 with mobile numbers. Auckland is the largest hub.

This list covers publishing companies headquartered in New Zealand, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 7, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 7, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
48Companies
276Contacts tracked
72Verified emails
15Mobile numbers
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The 13 largest publishing companies based in New Zealand

Ranked by team size
Top 13 of 48 publishing companies based in New Zealand, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 7, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to publishing companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceInvercargill, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-20030 contacts →

“The Southland Times is parent to six free community newspapers: The Mirror, which was started in 1987 and covers the Queenstown Lakes District and Central Otago; Newslink, which…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
2Strong evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5025 contacts →

“Behind MILK Books is over 60 years of expert publishing experience and an enormous love of bookmaking.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
3Indirect evidenceStoke, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5018 contacts →

“Top South Media is an independent media company with two offices based in Nelson and Blenheim Marlborough at the top of the South Island.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
4Indirect evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5018 contacts →

“Penguin Random House New Zealand is New Zealand's largest book publisher.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
5Indirect evidenceChristchurch, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-20017 contacts →

“Star Media connects and engages with Christchurch, Canterbury and New Zealand audiences every day.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
6Strong evidenceDunedin, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5013 contacts →

“Exisle Publishing was founded in 1991 with a goal to shine a light on local characters, artists and writers, and bring books into the world which would never otherwise have…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
7Indirect evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-507 contacts →

“Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand is part of Hachette Group, one of the world’s leading trade publishers.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
8Indirect evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-105 contacts →

“Upstart Press is a leading independent press working with New Zealand authors to create high quality non-fiction, commercial fiction and children’s books.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
9Indirect evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-105 contacts →

“The Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) is an incorporated society representing 80 trade, educational and digital publishers, and suppliers and…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
10Strong evidenceAuckland, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-104 contacts →

“Established in 1991, Hawkhurst Media Services Ltd is a small well established specialised magazine advertising sales and publishing company.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
11Indirect evidenceAuckland City, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-104 contacts →

“BookPrint Ltd is a specialist book production company based in Auckland's North Shore.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
12Strong evidenceWhitianga, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-103 contacts →

“Torn Curtain Publishing is a traditional (royalty-based) publishing house serving authors in New Zealand, Australia, United States, Canada and around the world.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
13Strong evidenceMangawhai Heads, New ZealandHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-101 contacts →

“Mary Egan Publishing is a publishing company specialising in producing beautiful books.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026

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Publishing companies based in New Zealand at a glance

As of Sep 7, 2026
26.1%Verified-email coverage
5.4%Mobile-number coverage
5.8Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
31.2%Largest-city concentration · Auckland
Sep 7, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
32
11-50
10
51-200
5

Freshness & accuracy

How recently the business emails on this list were verified

Email last verified

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among publishing companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in New Zealand whose own description of what they do matches “publishing companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names publishing companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among publishing companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside New Zealand are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 72 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 7, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names publishing companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many publishing companies are there based in New Zealand?

RevenueBase identified 48 publishing companies headquartered in New Zealand as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Fairfax Media, The Southland Times, headquartered in Invercargill, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most publishing companies?

Auckland leads with 15 headquartered companies, followed by Wellington (8) and Christchurch (5).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 72 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 48 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 7, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.