Vue (cinema)
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Vue Entertainment is one of the UK’s leading Multiplex developers and operators of state-of-the-art multiplex cinemas.
Formed in May 2003, Vue is one of the fastest growing cinema companies in the country.
Vue announced a management buyout in June 2006 in partnership with Bank of Scotland Corporate, through its Integrated Finance Team in a deal valued in the region of £350 million.
By the end of 2007 Vue will own 62 multiplexes across the UK and Ireland, with around 600 screens - Vue Thurrock was the first to open in 2007 following Lancaster, Cleveleys, Swansea and Exeter which all opened in 2006.
It continues its expansion in 2007 with a programme of building new multiplexes across the UK to include The O2 at Greenwich, Thanet, Stirling and Hull (Europe's first fully digital multiplex).
Another 15 to 20 new sites are planned for the next two to three years. The company has the most modern cinemas in the UK, with over 90% stadium seating and as a result it won the prestigious award for International Exhibitor of the Year at Cinema Expo 2005.
CEO Tim Richards was awarded the title of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006
- Aberdeen - Lighthouse Cinema - Ship Row
- Accrington - The Viaduct
- Basingstoke - Festival Place
- Birkenhead - Europa Boulevard - Conway Park
- Birmingham - Star City
- Blackburn - Peel Leisure Park
- Bolton - Middlebrook Leisure Park
- Bristol Cribbs Causeway
- Bristol Longwell Green - Aspects Leisure Park
- Bury - Park 66 - Pilsworth Road
- Cambridge - Grafton Centre
- Cardiff - Millennium Plaza
- Carlisle - Botchergate
- Cleveleys - Jubilee Leisure Park
- Doncaster - Doncaster Leisure Park
- Dublin - Liffey Valley shopping centre
- Edinburgh - Ocean Terminal
- Edinburgh - Omni Centre
- Ellesmere Port - Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet
- Exeter - Cheeke Street
- Hamilton - Palace Towers
- Hartlepool - The Lanyard - Marina Way
- Hull - Princes Quay (December 2007)
- Inverness - Eastfield Way
- Lancaster - Church Street
- Leeds - Kirkstall Road
- Leeds - The Light
- Leicester - Meridian Leisure Park
- Livingston - Livingston Designer Outlet
- London - Acton
- London - Croydon Grants - High Street
- London - Croydon Purley Way - Valley Park
- London - Dagenham - Dagenham Leisure Park, Cook Road
- London - North Finchley Lido - Great North Leisure Park
- London - Finchley Road - O2 Centre
- London - Fulham Broadway
- London - Greenwich - 02 Millenium Dome
- London - Harrow - St Georges Shopping Centre
- London - Islington - Parkfield St
- London - Shepherd's Bush - West 12 Shopping Centre
- London - West End - Leicester Square
- Manchester - Lowry Galleria - Salford Quays
- Newcastle-under-Lyme - High Street
- Northampton - Sol Central
- Norwich - Castle Mall
- Oxford - Ozone Leisure Park
- Plymouth - Barbican Leisure Park
- Portsmouth - Gunwharf Quays
- Preston - Capitol Centre
- Reading - The Oracle
- Romford - The Brewery
- Scunthorpe - Fenton Street
- Sheffield - Meadowhall
- Southport - Ocean Plaza
- Staines - Two Rivers Shopping Centre
- Stirling (Opening January 2008)
- Swansea - Salubrious Place Phase 2
- Thanet - Westwood Cross Broadstairs(Opened November 2007)
- Thurrock - Lakeside Shopping Centre
- Watford - Woodside Leisure Park, Garston
- Worcester - Friar Street
- York - Clifton Moor
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