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Peter Griffin: PETER GRIFFIN: Zoom will struggle to profit from its coronavirus boost
Who’d have thought when we departed for our Christmas holidays that a quarter of the way through 2020 we’d be Zooming five or six times a day?That’s the new reality for many of us, though we could just have easily been Skyping instead. Microsoft’s missteps since buying the world’...
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Infrastructure
Wgtn Airport in talks with banks, may seek equity support
Wellington International Airport is in discussions with its banks on funding for the business and may seek equity support from owners Infratil and Wellington City Council. The airport, operating on only about 5 percent of its usual domestic capacity, is expecting minimal reven...
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Primary Sector
Two Fonterra Edendale workers test positive for covid-19
Dairy giant Fonterra Cooperative Group has temporarily closed its Edendale distribution centre in Southland for 48-hours to allow for deep cleaning after two workers tested positive for covid-19.Fonterra was declared an essential service when New Zealand moved to the alert level...
Economy
Tourism losses of $3.5b in covid-19 crisis
Tourism New Zealand chief executive Stephen England-Hall was candid when asked to quantify the costs to the country's tourism sector as a result of covid-19 global restrictions.“I stopped counting when we reached $1 billion,” he said.New Zealand's top tourism marketer told a Tran...
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