"We acknowledge the support and certainty the Government provided to help us keep many of our people in jobs.” Alliance has retained $1.9m for the Leave Support Scheme payment to employees that were required to self-isolate or were unable to work, Taggart said. Alliance has plants in Lorneville, Dannevirke, Levin, Mataura, Nelson, Pukeuri and Timaru. Earlier in the week, The Warehouse Group announced it too will pay the wage subsidy it received. Sales in the first quarter of the new financial year for the Warehouse Group increased by 6.3 per cent and now stand up 6.6 per cent year to date compared ot the same period last year.