Deltic Group

The Deltic Group Ltd. (formerly The Luminar Group Ltd.) is a private company with an estate of 65 nightclubs and has the largest square footage of nightclub capacity in the United Kingdom.

The Deltic Group Ltd.
Private company
IndustryLate Night Entertainment
Founded(December 2011 (December 2011))
HeadquartersMilton Keynes, England
Area served
United Kingdom
Key people
Bob Brannan (Chairman)
Peter Marks (CEO)
Number of employees
2,500
Websitewww.delticgroup.co.uk

History

Luminar Group Holdings plc was established in 1988, with the opening of its first nightclub, Manhattan Nitespot in King's Lynn, Norfolk. The continued growth in the discotheque division and the creation of the popular Chicago Rock Cafe concept meant Luminar became a successful leisure company of the early 1990s.[1] It floated on the stock exchange in May 1996. There was a large expansion of Chicago Rock Cafes in the late 1990s. Luminar also ran and owned a couple of themed Australian restaurants, Tuckers Smokehouse, which opened at Kettering in Northamptonshire and Chelmsford in Essex. From August 1999 there were discussions with Northern Leisure about a possible merger. In November 1999, Luminar bought twenty nightclubs and seven bars from Allied Leisure for £34m.

Luminar bought Northern Leisure in May 2000 for £392m with a combined total of 237 nightclubs and late-night bars. In 2001 it opened 41 new venues, 44 in 2002, and 30 in 2003. In November 2003, it consolidated its range of nightclub brands into the four main divisions – Oceana, Liquid, Life and Lava-Ignite. In June 2005, it sold 49 nightclubs to a management buyout, which became CanDu Entertainment for £27m (which was later bought by Agilo in March 2008 after entering administration in March 2008).

Luminar sold the Entertainment division that included the Jumpin Jaks and Chicago Rock Cafe brands to 3D Entertainment in December 2006 for £79m, in a sale and leaseback deal.[2]

Luminar Group Holdings plc was placed into liquidation on 26 October 2011.[3] Luminar Group Ltd was incorporated on 5 December 2011 and headed up by former managing director Peter Marks, retaining the brands and most of the venues the previous company operated.[4]

The Luminar Group Limited acquired both Chicago Leisure Limited and Chicago Leisure (MK) Limited on 7 November 2014. On 17 May 2015, The Luminar Group was rebranded as The Deltic Group Limited, with their recent expansion into the late bar market.[5]

Controversies

In June 2019, the company along with door staff company Securigroup Services Ltd, and its former general manager Wayne Mason were ordered to pay £110,000 in fines and court costs, for creating a fire risk hazard at its Kuda nightclub in York.[6]

References
  1. The Makings of Luminar, The Luminar Staff and Shareholder Handbook, 2005, page 1.
  2. "3D Entertainment begins trading". 24 January 2007. Retrieved 21 October 2007.
  3. "Death club firm in administration". 26 October 2011 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  4. "Nightclub firm Luminar in administration". BBC News. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  5. "The Luminar Group Rebrands After Three Years of Consecutive Growth". Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  6. "Fire risk at York nightclub 'too awful to contemplate'". York Press.
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