Screen industry in spotlight

29 Oct '07

2 min read

The Screen Industry in New Zealand: 2006 report was released by Statistics New Zealand. This follows the release of high level results in June 2007. It provides additional analysis on the nature of screen activities in New Zealand and measures changes from the previous year. The latest report is the second in a series about the New Zealand screen industry.

In the 2006 financial year the industry remained stable, with gross revenue of $2,542 million, a 2 percent decrease from the previous year. Screen industry businesses paid a total of $314 million in salaries and wages to employees in the 2006 financial year, an increase of 13 percent from the 2005 figure of $277 million.

Analysis has been carried out looking at screen industry business revenue in the 2005 financial year compared with 2006.

Seventy percent of the businesses that earned between $1 million and $9.9 million in 2005 also earned that in 2006, while earnings for 7 percent of those businesses decreased to between $0.5 million and $0.9 million. Furthermore, for 10 percent of businesses revenue has increased to between $10 million and $49.9 million.

The report contains previously unreleased information on revenue and expenditure, labour and employment, growth and development, and longitudinal analysis on revenue. Previous results are presented in greater detail.

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