Longacre Press was founded in 1995 in New Zealand, by Barbara Larson, Paula Boock, and Lynsey Ferrari, three former workers at McIndoe Publishing, Dunedin.
[1] The company was originally located at Dowling Street, close to the city's Exchange Neighbourhood, but later moved to Moray Place in the city centre of Dunedin.
Longacre specialized in non-fiction, including self-help, food, the outdoors, and natural history books.
Additionally, they published junior and young-adult fiction, and work by writers such as Owen Marshall, Brian Turner, Lynley Hood, and Jack Lasenby for which they won multiple national book awards.
[1][2] In 2003, the company took on the catalogue of Shoal Bay Press of Christchurch.