Jaime Hilario, founder, and franchisor of Screen Rescue is delighted to announce the launch of former aviation engineer, Glenn Bowker who is the latest owner operator franchisee to join this award-winning Commercial Windscreen Repairs B2B growing network. We catch up with Glenn to chat about his route to becoming a Screen Rescue franchisee.
Q3: Given the current uncertainty in world economics, why now? Following detailed due diligence and my own market research, I felt that the market for commercial windscreen and glass repairs within the Birmingham postcode area was sizeable, somewhat protected due to its commercial nature and should be able to ride out any short-term national or global economic instability.
Q1: What is your business background? Q4: Why did you choose a Screen Rescue franchise? I have an applied chemistry degree and a 25-year business background in technical sales and marketing management, the last 10+ years of which have been spent in the aviation maintenance sector. I feel this gives me a solid background in terms of the technical requirements for repairing a wide range of windscreen and glass damages and also in the determination, persistence and tenacity required to generate the new business and client numbers that will be required to make the business successful. Q2: What made you decide to run your own business?
Following a period of career uncertainty caused by the global impact on the aviation industry from COVID-19 it was time to make a final decision on where my future lay. After deciding that I had no desire to return to my previous background in the corporate sales world, running my own business was a great option, assuming I could find a corporate business that fitted my skillset.
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I was looking for a van-based franchise and reading about Screen Rescue's market niche pricked my interest. I then conducted some good old fashioned market research and talked to key decision makers in the sector and discovered that the market for these services within the Birmingham postcode area was sizeable and not necessarily well serviced between the national competitors and the local man in a van provider. Then, when I met both franchisors at their Cambourne Open Day in Cambridge, this reinforced my decision.
Q5: How have your family supported you in this decision? My partner is naturally a more cautious person than I, so did have some reservations of me moving from a solid salary to running my own business. That said, she does see that the Screen Rescue franchise will give us the opportunity we were seeking to gain financial security and independence, plus a better work life balance in the mid to long-term.
