{"id":1534,"date":"2018-09-26T17:22:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T16:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2018-10-01T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T16:24:23","slug":"stonehaven-man-swaps-offshore-for-the-kitchen-with-oven-valeting-business-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/stonehaven-man-swaps-offshore-for-the-kitchen-with-oven-valeting-business-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonehaven man swaps offshore for the kitchen with oven valeting business launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>A Stonehaven man has swapped the oil rigs for a career in oven valeting with the launch of a new business.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Walker has become the owner of Ovenu Stonehaven, following an 18-year career in the oil &amp; gas industry.<\/p>\n<p>Ross, 44, who is from the town, was previously an appliance repair engineer before he started his career offshore, and found a lot of synergy between his previous role and the Ovenu service.<\/p>\n<p>He had been looking at going into business or operating a franchise and after coming across Ovenu and meeting with its Managing Director, Rik Hellewell, decided to launch the venture.<\/p>\n<p>Ross said: \u201cI have enjoyed a long and successful career offshore, but had always wanted to go into some form of business. Ovenu was the perfect fit as my previous job as an appliance engineer shares a number of similarities with the oven valeting process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had very positive conversations with Rik and a comprehensive training programme, which has set me up perfectly for the challenges of running my own small business. It is a niche service in Stonehaven and the surrounding areas, and I&#8217;m confident I&#8217;ll be able to make a success of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ovenu Stonehaven serves homes and businesses throughout the town and all surrounding areas along the northeast coast.<\/p>\n<p>Ovenu is a franchise network made up of more than 100 businesses owned by men and women working throughout the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Rik Hellewell, Managing Director and Founder of Ovenu, said: \u201cRoss&#8217; experience of customer relations combined with the practicalities of appliance repairs will be of great benefit to him as he starts out as an Ovenu franchisee. I&#8217;d like to wish him all the very best in building a thriving small business throughout Stonehaven and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Stonehaven man has swapped the oil rigs for a career in oven valeting with the launch of a new business. Ross Walker has become the owner of Ovenu Stonehaven, following an 18-year career in the oil &amp; gas industry. Ross, 44, who is from the town, was previously an appliance repair engineer before he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ovenu","category-cleaning-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/oven-5.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}