Riding on the back of a global movie boom, led by emerging economies in Asia, Holdaway's Vista Group now operates in 79 countries, installing movie ticketing software in cinemas. Vista started as just one of the projects undertaken by co-founder and chief executive Holdaway and his former software company Madison Systems. Vista subsequently bought the Village shareholding and between 2000 and 2010 Holdaway travelled the world selling its product, Vista Cinema. At one stage, Vista software operated in some 80 per cent of India's cinemas, before falling back to about 65 per cent today. The company went public in 2014, then moved from being exclusively a cinema software company to a film industry company, Holdaway says.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 03, 2017 16:07 UTC