LEIGH LEOPARDS owner Derek Beaumont may well have made his money in his decking business over the years, but there was a time when the outspoken chairman could well have gone down a completely different route.
Beaumont, who has been owner of the Leopards since June 2014, has been the owner and managing director of AB Sundecks since 1999.
But, back as a teenager, Beaumont almost went down the hairdressing route.
“It’s been a long journey, but when I left school I went into an apprenticeship doing hairdressing,” Beaumont told the League Express podcast.
“Without sounding like an idiot, whatever I was going to do, I was going to be the best version of myself and doing it in the best way I could.
“Anything I wasn’t good at, golf for example, I stopped playing it.
“Hairdressing I was really good at but it was never me. My parents had their own business doing double glazing and I always had the gift of the gab and went on to the sales side of thing with that.”
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