Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> February 26, 2001

Graham Coles – Esporta Plc (esp.l)

GRAHAM COLES is the Chief Executive of Esporta Plc. He was appointed to the First Leisure board as Finance Director in 1992 and has been involved in the management of the Health and Fitness business since the acquisition of ISL by First Leisure in 1994. Mr Coles has held various senior finance positions in the retail sector, including Finance Director of BHS Plc. He was appointed Chief Executive of Esporta in November 1999. Profile
TWST: Graham, would you start us off with a quick corporate profile of

Esporta, please.

Mr. Coles: We're one of the leading health club operators within the UK;

we operate at what we call in