If you have passed the little kiosk in Coventry’s Precinct lately (you know the one, located between Waterstones and Marks and Spencer), you will have noticed it’s taken on a new bright look. That’s because it’s home for a brand new venture by 22-year-old Connor Evans.
This is Connor's second venture in the city, recently turning around the fortunes of the market barbers and handing the now successful traditional barbers on to his younger brother Ciaran .
The brothers come from a family of Coventry hairdressers , their late father Mark Evans was a well-known personality and had several local award winning hair salons along with his wife Moira. Moira ‘s renaissance hair salon in Broadgate continues to be a top Coventry hairdressers and the hub of the family businesses.
Connor looks at it like this.
“I started off training in salons in Coventry even working alongside my mum in renaissance and then I got the opportunity to take over the Market Barbers on the Market’s start-up scheme,
The Market was a great place to build up my customers and experience running my own place. Then when I got the opportunity to come up in to the city centre, I thought it would be a good to expand the businesses with something a little different.
So how is business?
“I have been open now for about 3 weeks and I can’t believe the reaction , Godiva barbers is going really well. We want to develop this in to a long standing barber’s shop . It’s a great location to get your hair cut right in the city centre and we wanted to bring something a little quirky into Coventry, something a little different and up to date which will attract people to the city centre as well”.
So what has the feedback been like, so far?
“We have had great feedback, people coming up chatting and taking pictures, I have my regular clients from down in the Market and Ciaran down there is building up his new barbers with new customers, We are opening 7 days a week, so come along and try it out, we cater to all styles of hair, we can even book you in for a traditional cut throat shave”.
We really believe that someone of Connor’s age, who is prepared to go for it and to create his own business and his own future in such an iconic Coventry landmark, deserves a little help from the press.