I have worked in customer service & retail for over 20 years and now want to open my own small, neighbourhood shop selling craft beer & craft chocolate in a unit in Hither Green, South East London, which has been empty for 8 years.
I started my career with Direct Line Group & over seven years learnt the fundamentals of customer service & sales. These have stuck with me ever since.
After a small time travelling in SE Asia, I started working in retail initiallly in mens fashion for the Flannels group & then for the small independent menswear label Nigel Hall where I stayed for seven years eventually looking after their seven retail outlets & wholesale operation.
After this I had spells at Reiss, Nespresso & paul.a.young fine chocolates where I have made many of the contacts for the chocolate side of the business I am proposing.
Most revcently I have been working at Amathus drinks specialists & Partizan brewery in Bermondsey to learn more about beer & make more contacts.
I now want to bring all of these things together & launch the first business of my own utilising all of these skilss & contacts.