New manager at Brighton Prowler

Prowler in St James’ Street has a new manager. Peter Booth, from Doncaster in South Yorkshire, studied for a couple of years at college before he jumped into retail and has stayed with shop work ever since.

He arrived at Prowler via Comet, House of Fraser and Toys R Us. For a few years he had his own internet business which he says was great fun, but incredibly stressful and time consuming. It isn’t something he misses.

In 2009 he moved to London to work, falling in love with the city and the commercial gay scene, which he had never experienced up north. However, working just outside of London and having to travel with work, he felt isolated from central London and the gay scene.

After dropping off random CVs in Soho, he ended taking up a job offer with Prowler at their Soho branch in June last year. Peter said: “This was a huge boost to my career and social life. Through Prowler I have met a lot of great people and I even flat share with a Prowlette.”

In May this year he requested to be transferred to Prowler’s Brighton branch when a position became available. Working with the Brighton team he has revamped the shop with a fresh new look, introduced new product ranges and says the company have exciting plans for the shop over the next 12 months.

His ties to the north are still strong as his family is still living there. He currently lives in Croydon which keeps him nicely placed to enjoy both Brighton and London and he visits his family regularly. He admits to being a massive ‘geek’, loves Tudor history, David Lynch, Games of Thrones, which he is still catching up on, and says the hottest guy on the planet besides his boyfriend Marcel is the actor, Will Smith. The thing he likes most about working for Prowler is the charity support work they do. Prowler have six charity partners and last month they supported the HIV charity Positive East.

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