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The Marlborough Express has been publishing since April 1866, servicing a diverse province, stretching from the outer reaches of the beautiful Marlborough Sounds to the majesty of the Molesworth high country and the Kaikoura region. The Furness family have been associated with the paper since 1879, buying it from founder Samuel Johnson. In October 1998, Roger and Carol Rose (nee Furness) sold the company to Independent Newspapers Ltd, and the business came under the ownership of Fairfax Media in 2003. Mr Rose remains the newspaper's general manager, having succeeded his father-in-law, the late Don Furness, as manager in the 1980s. Earlier, in 1976, the Lucas family of the Nelson Evening Mail had an involvement with the company. With their assistance, off-set printing was introduced and The Express moved to colour reproduction capability in late 1977. In March 1979, the Saturday edition ceased publication and in March 1985 The Saturday Express community paper was established. In 1988, the Kaikoura weekly newspaper, The Kaikoura Star, became part of The Express's publications. In 1982, the whole plant, now completely computerised and using offset printing, was re-established in the company's former printing premises. Since then, there has been a policy of progressively upgrading plant and technology. The paper was the first in the country to move wholly to digital photography in 1998. |
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Roger Rose General Manager Email: rogerr@marlexpress.co.nz Vanessa Watson
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