Publishing empire scion Matthew Horton eyeing Bauer titles

Publishing empire scion Matthew Horton eyeing Bauer titles
Horton Media will look through the wreckage of Bauer Media's New Zealand magazine publishing stable for possible bargains after Bauer announced it would immediately cease publishing many of the country's best-loved weekly titles.Queensland-based chief executive Matthew Horton told BusinessDesk it was too early to speculate on whether and which titles could be of interest to Horton Media, which bills itself as "Australasia's largest independent contract newspaper printer."Horton, a descendant of the Horton family dynasty that published the New Z...

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