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Q& A with Justin Adgar
In our summer issue we feature Justin Adgar for our staff Q & A. Joining in 2019, Justin is an industry leader. With senior leadership experience at Homebase and Bathstore, Justin is responsible for the development of our retail strategy.
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What is your role within the BiKBBI?
Name 3 you’d least like to invite?
Director of Retail Strategy, It’s my role to spread the word to our retail partners what BiKBBI Protected can do to help them sell more KBB projects.
Think there are 3 or more world leaders that I would not be able to get through a dinner date with, but I’m not going to get political so I’ll leave it to your imagination.
What were your first impressions when joining the institute?
Favourite sport and team or sports person?
I’ve known Damian for nearly 20 years and I’ve seen him build the institute from conception. It was visionary to recognise the importance of installation businesses’ and their role with in the KBB industry and the fact that they had no representation structure or development. It’s really satisfying to see what it’s become and it support through the current Covid-19 pandemic has been exemplary. I’ve been a retailer that benefitted from the institute’s work in the past so joining the team felt really natural. And how has your view changed, if at all? Not so much changed as reinforced the influence and scale of the work that goes on behind the badge. I think it’s still a little undersold regarding its importance to our industry – who else would have liaised with the government on behalf of Installation Businesses in KBB if there was no BiKBBI? Who else would pull together a national apprenticeship scheme for KBB installations? On the lighter side, who or what makes you laugh? Damian, when he’s not playing the serious business and industry leader he’s like a Southern Gazza with that ‘non-stop’ sense of fun and broad Essex accent, his latest lockdown buzzcut just adds to the picture. Name 3 people past or present that you would love to invite to a boys night out? Gazza, Danny Baker and Chris Evans – their antics in the 90’s used to crease me up – I think I’d need to go back to the 90’s to make the most of it though.
Kitesurfing – Robby Naish, a true icon in watersport, I would have said Alan Shearer but that was too predictable.
