The company remained in the family's hands until 1986 when the Herald and Weekly Times (HWT) assumed majority ownership.

The following people were editors of The Mercury:[4] In July 2007 News Corporation approved a new $31 million press centre for Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, publisher of the Mercury and the Sunday Tasmanian, including the installation of the latest colour press.

[17] Davies Brothers opened the new print centre at the Tasmanian Technopark in Dowsing Point, north of Hobart, in 2009.

[18] Other operations of the newspaper group continued to be based in the heart of the city at 93 Macquarie Street.

The weekly rural title Tasmanian Country returned to the Mercury Print Centre after previously being moved to the ACM site by its new owner after that paper's sale by News Corp Australia to FontPR.

It was announced in May 2013 that the original site had been sold to an unidentified buyer[22] including the heritage-listed Ingle Hall, which was built in 1814 and housed the Mercury Print Museum.

[25][26] From early 2013, the Mercury's Salamanca Square office hosted the Tasmanian bureaus of The Australian and Sky News.

[27] The Mercury's Hobart offices have also hosted the Tasmanian bureau of Australian Associated Press over many decades.

In 2018, the University of Tasmania opened its Tasmanian Media School,[28] co-located with the Mercury in its Salamanca Square office.

In February 2022, the Mercury relocated to an internal office on the ground floor of the same Salamanca Square building it had occupied since 2012.