Glizz Leisure

Glizz Leisure Ltd is a subsidiary of Emoa Group, and specialises principally in the entertainment, catering and leisure businesses. It currently owns three multiplex cinemas, a pub chain and 60 nightclubs in four major brands. The company is near completing a corporate restructure to streamline the business, following the purchase of British Entertainments Ltd (BEL) in December 2009.

Nightclub and Bar chains

 * Power: 19 clubs
 * Lush: 3 clubs
 * Cosmo: 7 clubs
 * Starbar: 16 clubs
 * Atlantica: 12 clubs

Food pubs

 * Wildfire Pubs: 15 pubs (acquired from BEL)

Cinemas

 * Jupiter: 2 cinemas

Former brands

 * Navigator: Brand of 10 venues targeted at the same market as Power/Lush. Acquired from BEL and most clubs were re-branded as Power or Atalantica. Three retain the Navigator name outside but operate within the Power chain.
 * Arcadex: Former chain of small single-roomed clubs in the North of England. Following the purchase of Central Nightlife in 1998, all except one, the Leicester branch, were re-branded into Central's 'Atlantica' brand. LWR Central subsequently disposed of Atlantica to BEL in 2003. Later in 2010, Glizz purchased BEL and subsequently regained the Atalantica chain. Arcadex in Leicester was moved into the Atlantica chain in April 2010, however the Arcadex brand will be retained on the building until early 2011.

History
It was formed in 1990 as LWR Leisure plc, and operated two bowling alleys in Bristol and nearby Bath. It subesquently purchased two holiday parks in the South West in 1992, before opening its first nightclub, Lush, in Bristol in December 1993. Lush opened further branches in Cardiff and Newport in 1994 and 1995 respectively, whilst the company bought two further holiday parks in 1996. It opened a further ten nightclubs in the North and Midlands in 1997-1999, under the name "Arcadex". LWR went on to merge with Central Nightlife plc in 1998, which brought the brands Power and Atlantica to the group's nightclub chain, now at a total of 25 clubs accross the UK.

The newly enlarged LWR Central Group plc went on to open four multiplex cinemas in the South East of England in 2000, when the company's name was changed to Glizz Leisure Group Plc in November 2001. By mid-2002, the company' profits had diminished and changes in the market led to company-wide reviews and asset disposal. Its chain of nine holiday parks were sold to Bourne Leisure in 2003, along with the disposal of ten nightclubs (eight under the Atlantica brand, two as Arcadex) to British Entertainments Ltd (BEL) and Luminar. Its bowling alleys were sold to Megabowl in 2004, along with three non-branded bars which it acquired in 2001. It closed its 8-screen Jupiter cinema in Birmingham in 2005, but retained the building with the intention of refurbishing it and re-opening it as both a cinema and nightclub venue. Its two remaning Atlantica-branded clubs were re-branded under the "Power" brand, which was aligned with the Lush chain in 2006. The single remaining Arcadex format club continued to be administered separately.

In March 2009, Emoa Group plc purchased Glizz Leisure Group plc for an "undisclosed sum", and the company became known as Glizz Leisure Group Ltd as of 1 April. The purchase allowed Emoa to acquire the Group's former Birmingham cinema, which will now be converted into a small front-end bar, but a major production centre for Mercia Television and a central base for Emoa Group in the Midlands. Emoa Group has long term intentions to sell the business, however is said to be "working to increase Glizz's potentials" for the immediate future.

On 1 December 2009, Glizz sought permission from Emoa to purchase British Entertainments Ltd (BEL) for £2 million, which includes 25 clubs in four brands (including Glizz's former Atlantica chain), 19 food-pubs and 7 coffee shops in South West England. Glizz acquired the group on 3 December, however Emoa insisted that the pub chain was not "in the interest of the company", and will be disposed of in January 2010, along with a re-alignment of the enlarged group's 8 overlapping entertainment venue brands. On 28 February 2010, 4 of BEL's pubs in Southampton, Portsmouth, Bristol and Bath respectively were sold to Whitbread plc to join the Brewers Fayre chain. The remaining 15 continue to be operated by Glizz Leisure for the forseeable future.

On 1 March 2010, the BEL brand was dissolved and the assets of both businesses were merged into Glizz Leisure Group Ltd. On the same date, BEL's former South West coffee chain, RogueCoffee, performed a management-buyout to form the independent Rogue Catering plc.

Reorganisation
Following the integration with BEL, the company's 7 club brands will be condensed into 4 core brands:
 * Power/Lush - signature single chain branded as Lush in South Wales and Bristol only. 2-room clubs with mainstream in the main room, and "disco" and classic music in the second.
 * Cosmo - multiroom large clubs in big cities
 * starbar - typical cosmopolitan urban bar
 * Atlantica - small to medium sized single-room clubs

Six of the clubs currently branded as Navigator will be re-branded as "Power", whilst a seventh will become "Cosmo". The Power Manchester will become Cosmo, whilst the former Navigator Manchester will be re-branded as Power. One Starbar branch will become Atlantica, whilst the Shrewsbury branch will close completely. By August, a further 4 clubs are scheduled to close.