Great Clips is a chain of hair salons in the United States and Canada, with more than 2,700 store locations. Great clips provides hair cuts, perms, shampooing, and styling as well as various hair and body care products. Started in 1982 and enfranchised in 1983, with the intent of revolutionizing the hair care industry.http://www.greatclips.com/About/AboutUs-TheBeginning.pdf

Most Great Clips salons are franchises. In fact, Great Clips has nearly 1,000 franchises across North America. Great Clips franchises are known to be recession resistant and require fairly low upfront investment. The average investment for a new salon ranges from $100,000 to $200,000 USD. Great Clips claims 6% of revenue as royalties. On average, it takes 9-12 months to open a salon.http://www.greatclipsfranchise.com/ Salons may be managed by a stylist or by a business manager that hires stylists to handle the hair services. Many franchisees open multiple salons. Available areas for Great Clips salons include much of the eastern and southwestern U.S.http://www.franchisedirect.com/healthbeautyfranchises/great-clips-franchise-07056/ufoc/

Great Clips provides a wide range of services, featuring haircuts for the entire family. Adults, children and seniors can benefit from shampooing, styling, permanent waves, conditioning treatments, and the full compliment of a barber shop including bear trimming. Gift certificates are also available for purchase and are redeemable for any Great Clips product or service.http://www.greatclips.com/services.html

Great Clips products include the Tea Tree product lines for general hair care, which includes: a peppermint shampoo, healing conditioner, tea tree gel, tea tree paste for molding hair, and tea tree body wash. Great Clips also sells the Solutions product lines, which are daily hair care products and include the types: Daily, Grapefruit, Mint, Mosturizing, Volumizing, Kids, and Mens. Another Great Clips product line is Detour, which are hair care products for fashion oriented styles and include: Hard Hat Gel for cementing hair, Grid Lock Putty for flexible creations, Live Wire Cream, Road Slick Wax for slicking up hair, Torque Boosting Cream as a volumizer in wet hair, and Dusty Road Matte Cream that provides a matte finish and volume control. Many Great Clips salons also carry Matrix, American Crew, Nioxin, Sexy Hair, Joico, and Redken product lines. However specific products vary by salon.http://www.greatclips.com/products.html