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Stuart Shepherd

Stuart Shepherd is a business manager for Gordon & Gotch (a PMP Group company), providing solutions for New Zealand and international magazine publishers in the specific areas of subscription marketing, management, and audience development. PMP is Zealand's largest print group providing leading integrated communication and distribution solutions and consumer insights throughout New Zealand. Stuart is also the business manager of Zinio digital publishing. Zinio bolsters environmental 'green' initiatives within publishing, reduces costs of manufacturing and distribution and extends audience, brand and marketing options.

Stuart is a committee member of The Magazine Publishers Association of New Zealand.

Previously, he was a marketing manager in the New Zealand recording industry and in the early 1990's founded the Magazzino retail stores and wholesaler Propaganda Distributors offering sales and distribution channels for arts publications, magazines, books and catalogs. He has been a panel member for the QEII Arts Council of New Zealand and has published books in visual arts, architecture and design and agriculture for New Zealand and international markets.

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Published March 2008