10 QUESTIONS
10 QUESTIONS WITH... JACK WEAVERS
Each month we ask a flooring industry professional the Tomorrow’s Flooring 10 Questions. This month, we chatted to Jack Weavers, Country Manager at Bona Limited.
Q4.If money was no object, what car would
you buy? I currently drive an Audi A6 which I love, but due to the recent weather, have decided to change to the Q5 - but I would like the top of the range Audi Q7 if I had a bit more money!
Q1.What was your first job?
My first job was with Vickers Aerospace as a design draftsman.
Q2.How did you get into the flooring industry?
I came into the flooring industry via the Specialist Products Division at Cementone Beaver, first working with screeds, and later when Cementone became the UK agent for Bona. Eventually I came to work for Bona itself when the UK subsidiary was set up in 1999.
Q3.Who, in any other industry do you most
admire? I admire a lot of people in the flooring industry and have always found Osmo here in the UK to be very honest in their trading. Bona is also very lucky to have some excellent and very loyal distributors and users.
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Q5.How would you improve the flooring
industry? I have been asked this several times in the past and I always come up with the same answers; training, qualifications and honesty. If we have these three qualities in an industry it would be hard to go wrong.
Q6. What did you want to be when you were little?
I was always into swimming from a very early age, and was quite successful in competition and distances. But just as I was ready to step into the limelight, a lot of very tall swimmers started to appear and I just wasn’t tall enough, at just under 6ft, to compete with them. They were half way down the pool with their dive before I had surfaced.
Q7. What do you do to unwind?
When I want to unwind I go out to my Koi pond with a nice whiskey or lager, set up
a chair, listen to some music and just watch them swimming about very slowly! I love to travel, especially in Italy. I love the food, the drink, the history and the people there.
Q8.If you could have a dinner party with any three
people, dead or alive, with one other person cooking and another person providing the music, who would they be and why? My ideal dinner party guests would be my Mum for the cooking (she once prepared Plum Duff for Charles and Diana and her rice pudding was to die for!) For some humour I would choose Tommy Cooper as he always made me smile and Karen Carpenter would provide the music, her voice was like satin!
Q9.What, do you think, is the future of the
flooring industry? I think the future of the flooring industry will always
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be safe. We’re lucky in that we supply the restoration market as well as new build, as when you can’t afford to buy new, you always restore. This year will be hard but I’m confident things will get better and certainly the better
quality companies will be able to survive.
Steve Grimwood of Osmo asks..
Q10.Which floor covering business do you most
admire and why? I find this a very hard question to answer as there are so many competitor products I admire as well as our own best sellers such as Traffic and Mega lacquers. As I can’t decide on one competitor product I’m going to choose our new Spray Mop. It’s a real innovation in floor care and has already doubled Bona’s turnover in the USA!
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Check out next month’s issue to see what Jack asked our next industry professional…
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