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Coca-Cola Amatil (NZ) Limited, the global drinks giant’s Kiwi subsidiary, reaped $7.1 million in wage subsidy payments.
OPINION: The classic 1946 Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life is as much about corporate greed, business opportunism, and doing the right thing as it is the holiday season. In the film, the villain, banker Henry F Potter, seizes on financial crises to enrich himself and squeeze out his rival, the idealistic protagonist George Bailey. In the end, the good guy Bailey wins, as the town rallies to the aid of a man who has always treated people kindly. Every good Christmas story has its heroes and villains, and this year, Kiwi companies have shown who is worthy of our support, and who has acted on their worst impulses during the Covid crisis. On Christmas Eve, let’s take a look at who should make this year’s naughty list.
THE show must go on and not even a pandemic was going to stop the staging of a high school performance. The production team at Bolton School certainly had to think a little bit more creatively to stage their traditional festive performance. This year they had chosen an adaptation of Frank Capra’s classic Christmas film “It’s a Wonderful Life” as their yuletide offering. The Chapeltown Road school called upon video company Sitcom Soldiers, founded by Old Boys Ben Thornley and Chris Jones to produce a filmed version of its stage production. The cast auditioned online, rehearsed via Zoom for month, and rehearsed in-person for just a few days, in bubbles to create a socially distanced theatre for film.