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Barbed billboard

Barbed billboard

This billboard, advertising Hell Pizza (who named many of their pizzas after the seven deadly sins) features an image of the half-completed $30 million mansion of financier Mark Hotchin. In 2009 there was considerable public disquiet that construction on the mansion had continued while his company, Hanover Finance, was in a state of collapse, threatening many investors with significant losses. At first Hell Pizza created a mobile billboard advertising 'Greed' pizza next to a picture of Hotchin, which was driven around Auckland and parked outside construction site. Later, the courts stepped in and seized the property; so the new poster advertised 'Pride' which 'comes before the fall'.

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Jock Phillips, 'Class - A new society, 1980s onwards', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/29743/barbed-billboard (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Jock Phillips, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 22 May 2018