About Us
The magazine
Wares magazine is the highly accredited independent communication medium between product and service suppliers and retailers of household appliances and consumer electronics. This industry-wide publication is read by owners, buyers and managers of every retail store selling household appliances, audio/visual equipment and associated service centres and distributors.
Published bi-monthly, this up-to-the-minute publication provides retailers with essential industry and product information. This is why retailers look to each issue for valuable retailing and product advice.
It has been the industry's 'bible' for the past 20 years and continues to increase its service to retailers including the industry renown annual Wares Awards.
The specialist publishing team is knowledgeable, experienced and dedicated to the industry and strives to keep abreast of the appliance industry's evolvement both within New Zealand and internationally.
The publishers
Marketplace Media is the 'phoenix' of Marketplace Press/3media Group and owned by a dedicated team of professionals who have been working with the company's retail titles for the past 18 years.
The aim of the company's management is to develop evolving communication within the three industries it now serves with highly successful magazine titles – NZ Hardware Journal, Wares and NZ Outdoor Power Equipment. It also manages two annual industry award programmes - Wares Awards and Hardware Industry Awards.
Brother and sister Andrea and Simon Little acknowledge that publishing of retail titles must evolve and develop within the total sphere of communication. The company is successful with 'on page' and 'on stage' and is quickly developing the third phase of its development 'on line / on screen'.