PAGAZZI Lighting was founded in 1980 by Laura Pagan and is now the UK's largest independent specialist lighting and mirror re ... tailer. Our first store was located in West George Street in Glasgow. It quickly became established as the city’s premier specialist lighting shop, attracting the great, the good and the famous for many years. From West George Street we moved to a store in Sauchiehall Street. The extra floor area gave us the space to present a much bigger range of lighting and be more adventurous in our choice of product. In addition, during 2005 we introduced a large range of mirrors/artwork into our stores. These products have proved to very successful with customers and we are now one of the largest independent mirror / artwork retailers in the UK. In February 2006 we received a significant financial injection from Ashleybank Investments (ABI), a venture capital company with a special interest in fast-track retail companies; they were also early investors in companies such as Schuh and Dobbies Garden Centres. ABI were also partnered in the investment by the Scottish Enterprise's Co-Investment Fund. In addition to finance, PAGAZZI Lighting also benefits from the significant hands-on retailing knowledge that remains within ABI and the experience that they have of building the Edinburgh Woollen Mill business into a UK wide retail chain. read more