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Sports clips4/12/2023 ![]() ![]() One of my favorite sayings is by Zig Zigler, who said, ‘You can have everything you want, if you help others get what they want.’ To me, that’s what franchising is about. Franchising has really been wonderful for Sport Clips. “That’s how we’ve run our business from day one, and I think it’s the right way to run a business because it helps you recruit and retain the best people. “This business is built on core values: do the right thing, do your best, and treat people the way they want to be treated,” Gordon says. It’s our commitment to our values that Gordon credits as the driving force behind all of our success. We only grow where we can support new stores, and we only grow with entrepreneurs who share our values. While this may seem like explosive growth – in fact, Sport Clips has been extremely strategic about our growth strategy. In 2022, Sport Clips is quickly approaching 1,900 stores open across North America. By 2010, Sport Clips had 750 locations, and six years later, the brand doubled in size when it opened its 1,500th location. ![]() In five years, Sport Clips grew to 50 locations, and just two years later, Sport Clips celebrated the opening of their 100th store. Sport Clips began franchising in 1995, and very soon, their first franchise store opened in Houston, Texas. What started as one location in Austin, Texas, quickly blossomed into a national brand. It’s been more than 28 years and we’re just getting started.” A bright idea turned into years of sustained and strategic growth We felt like there was a real opportunity if we created a concept tailored strictly to men and boys, created an atmosphere where they would feel comfortable, and then trained our stylists on how to execute men’s haircuts. “In the early 90’s, I found that no one was going after the men & boys’ market and I like going into a niche where no one else is playing. “I’ve been in this industry since 1979,” Gordon says. As an industry veteran who had been in the salon industry for decades, Gordon knew that by focusing only on men and boys haircuts, he could capitalize on what was a tremendously underserved niche. Gordon founded Sport Clips in 1993 – opening a prototype store in Austin, Texas. Where the majority of the industry didn’t see anything at all, Gordon Logan saw a big opportunity. In fact, men were invisible to the majority of the industry, and going after a male customer base was considered a waste of time. Neighborhood barber shops were vanishing, and there wasn’t a national brand that catered specifically to men and boys haircuts. In the early nineties, men had very few options to get their hair cut. How Sport Clips became one of the highest regarded franchise systems in the nation ![]()
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