Longacre Press was a publisher based in

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. The company was founded in 1995 by Barbara Larson,

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, and Lynsey Ferrari, three former workers at Dunedin's McIndoe Publishing.Cawley, N.,
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'', 14 February 2004. Retrieved 5 July 2019. The company was originally based in Dowling Street, close to the city's Exchange neighborhood, but later moved to Moray Place in the city centre. Longacre specialized in a wide range of non-fiction art, self-help, outdoors, food and natural history and also junior and young-adult fiction. It picked up numerous national book awards, and published work by noted writers such as

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, Brian Turner,

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, and

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. In 2003, the company expanded, taking on the catalogue of

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boutique publishers, Shoal Bay Press. At about the same time, the distribution of Longacre's books changed from Macmillan Books to

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. In 2009, Longacre was acquired by Random House.

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*The New Zealand Writer's Handbook *Writers & Artists' Yearbook Book publishing companies of New Zealand Mass media in Dunedin New Zealand companies established in 1995 Mass media companies established in 1995 {{publisher-stub