Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> October 23, 2000

Stephen Thomas – Luminar Plc (lmr.l)

STEPHEN THOMAS is the Chief Executive Officer of Luminar Plc, and has had 30 years experience in the leisure industry. Luminar was founded in 1989 and floated in 1996 at a market capitalisation of GBP30 million and 32 trading units. Luminar's current market capitalisation is GBP240 million and now has over 100 trading units. Mr Thomas's former career prior to Luminar was the Rank Group Plc and Whitbread Plc. He is also Non-Executive Director of Saracens Limited, Coffee Republic Plc and Hartford Group Plc. He has won many industry awards including Retailer's Retailer of the Year Award in 1999. Aged 47, Mr Thomas is married and has two children. Profile
TWST: Let's start with a quick corporate profile; what's Luminar?

Mr. Thomas: Luminar is an entertainment company; in other words, it runs

what would technically known as