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ALLUMER

Lighting the present, powering the future.

Meet The Team

Wondering who makes the magic happen? Meet the faces behind Allumer that are lighting the present and powering the future.

“Alex was there every step of the way and brought my vision further than I could have imagined!”

Josh MargolisFounder of DAF
Jon Ridgeway - Allumer
Managing Director, Founder

Jon "Jono" Ridgeway

Hold on tight for the ride!

Jon loves Mountain Biking & Running as well as a passion to sing. He just cannot look past a gadget, and his enthusiasm for success is infectious!

Emmanuel “Manu” Chevallier
Director

Emmanuel "Manu" Chevallier

Loves a Pain au Chocolate!

Our French stunner has built some of the biggest Warehouses in the UK. Emmanuel connects our French influence to the name “Allumer”, which means “to light up” in French.

Terry “Tezza” Phillips
Production & Warehouse Manager

Terry "Tezza" Phillips

A passion for quality and accuracy is what keeps Jon head of production! With a love for Adidas trainers, his only hope is that his wife doesn’t sell his collection for what he told her he bought them for!

About

Born from a vision to illuminate, innovate and integrate bespoke Lighting Solutions, we’ve built Allumer on over twenty years of lighting industry experience, from its design to its distribution.

Allumer began as a vision to rethink Lighting Solutions with a focus on control, quality and flexibility for both the company and its clients. And with a portfolio of knowledge and understanding in the industry, we realised it all came down to one thing: your end experience.

Designed from an end user's perspective, our services offer Lighting Solutions that can be tailored to your business’s needs. Whether you’re looking for market-leading components or smart controls for fine-tuning your lighting, we’re all about finding the right solution for your business.

At Allumer’s core, we’re:

Designed from an end user’s perspective

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Designed with industry gaps in mind

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Focused on flexibility to find the right solution for your needs

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Built on over 20 years of technical knowledge and industry understanding

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But how did we end up here?

Jon Ridgeway Founder of Allumer

In 1994, at the age of eighteen, Jon, our founder and then a young entrepreneur, emigrated to Australia and opened his own business, a juice bar and ice cream shop.

But, with a family history in Electricals and Lighting, Jon found himself inspired to learn more about the industry and so, in a bid to continue the Family expertise in Lighting, sold his Juice Bar and Ice Cream Shop and joined a worldwide lighting company as an engineer.

After moving back to the UK in 2004, Jon joined a Lighting Manufacturer, and after over twenty years, he became their UK Sales Director.

Now, fully qualified in lighting design and UK Sales Director, Jon wanted to get hands-on with the manufacturing process.

With experience and expertise in sales, the manufacturing process and product design, Jon found a niche in servicing Logistics and related areas of distribution and production facilities.

And it was around this time that Allumer was born.