What about…Vincent Cleary, Glenisk?
Print16 September 2010
What’s your job title?
Managing director
Your favourite grocery shop?
Wholefoods (US)
How long is your typical working day?
I don’t do the Mussolini – I believe in quality rather than quantity.
How do you describe yourself?
Relaxed on the outside – frenetic on the inside!
What’s your favourite Irish product?
Modesty forbids me saying Glenisk Organic Natural Wholemilk Yogurt, so Mileens Cheese.
What’s your favourite brand, outside of the brands you represent, and why?
Wholefoods – they have employee profit sharing and are very engaged with their customers on many levels. In Ireland, I think Love Irish Food is making a difference.
What piece of legislation would you introduce/change?
Too numerous and too controversial to put on paper but suffice to say a re-evaluation of health care, education and law and order amongst others, as well as getting the Semi-States working for Ireland for a change.
What historical figure would you invite to dinner?
Michael Collins
The best gift you ever received?
Initial Quinnsworth listing (many, many years ago)
What possession could you not live without?
A reasonably good suit
What was your first job?
Milkman
What was your childhood dream/ambition?
Cowboy, Indian, soldier, astronaut, world leader – I had to settle for cowboy.
What’s your ambition now?
Up the ladder to Indian I suspect
What’s the worst ad ever?
Soap themed detergent ads or Walt Disney-esque Coke ads – its sugar in a bottle for pete’s sake!
What’s your favourite ad at the moment?
Modesty be damned! Glenisk – It’s only Natural – TV commercial.
Your favourite newspaper?
Irish Indo & Irish Times
Who is inspirational in Irish business?
I’m afraid I’ve been disappointed too frequently as of late…
In your opinion what’s the next big thing?
Oil replacement – for everything! But first it has to be proven to tick all the boxes
What (if anything) was the last thing you bought on the internet?
A hotel reservation
What’s your pet hate?
Backbenchers attempting to distance themselves from sound government policy.
What makes you laugh?
Backbenchers – I would have thought society would have moved on by now.
Three essential grocery items you’d take with you for a week on a desert island?
Lily O’Brien’s Organic Chocolate, Bombay Sapphire Gin, Mileens Cheese.
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