Developing the new UK Forest enterprise is being done by an experienced team led by Managing Director Paul Williams, with a long and established career within the track and drapery hardware industry. Read on and get to know more about Paul Williams and his team.
Paul is very excited to take on the new challenge for Forest with a strong drive to engage with both new and pre-existing customers, he aims to bring a fresh and accessible structure to the UK marketplace. Putting together and developing a strong new team who bring their own individual skills and expertise is of course essential.
Paul Williams says “My approach has always been to provide an extremely strong personable quality to my work and build the best most harmonious business relationships in the shortest possible time, providing solutions quickly with a strong product and technical understanding.”
“We have a really great team ethic with a mixture of skills to compliment each other, so we are able to meet customers challenges positively.”
Stocked warehouse
All the early investments and hard work of the team is now starting to result in real time orders and business is not only starting to show strong promise but exceeding early expectations with the addition of new staff and processes currently being developed.
The warehouse is stocked and specific template requirements are already being produced.
In addition to Paul Williams, we have another two Pauls; Paul Naughton sr. and Paul Naughton jr.. Colin Brown completes the team from the very beginning as well. As Forest begins to show an impact and push into the UK market things will need to develop and evolve in response quickly and Colin says: ‘This is a very exciting position to be in and we look forward to responding to it!”
Made to measure
Paul (senior) whose practical and hands on approach has helped establish the warehouse systems become operational and who now has an assistant another Paul (junior) is on the warehouse and production floor with requirements as they appear.
Paul sr. says: “It’s been a really enjoyable time being able to build the business from scratch watching it grow and take shape”. Enthusiastically he continues: “the specifics of each customer is so different and we have the ability here so we are able to produce this“.
Besides work Colin enjoys his chill out time with fitness, running, family time and golf. Paul Naughton and Paul (Warehouse Assistant) are off to collect their own individual newest sports additions golf clubs!
The Forest UK Golf Team officially ready to take on their competitors on and off the green!
From left to right: Colin, Paul Junior, Paul Senior.