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Hair Cuttery Family of Brands
Company typePrivate
IndustryHair salon
Founded1974; 50 years ago (1974)
West Springfield, Virginia, U.S.
HeadquartersMcLean, VA
Key people
Seth Gittlitz, CEO
ParentHair Cuttery Family of Brands
Websitewww.haircuttery.com

Hair Cuttery Family of Brands is an American-based unisex hair salon. It is the largest privately-owned hair salon business in the United States.[1][2]

Services

Hair Cuttery and Bubbles offer services for women, men, and children.[3][4] Hair Cuttery and Bubbles offers a full complement of hair care services, including cut, set, blow dry, color, relaxer/texturizer, permanents, and styling for special occasions.[3]

Hair Cuttery has pivoted during the Covid-19 pandemic to offer Curbisde Cuts at select locations.

History

The company was founded in 1974 when the first salon opened in West Springfield, Virginia.[1]

Since the 1970s,[5] the enterprise has expanded to become the largest privately held salon chain in the United States, with locations up and down the East Coast, the Chicago metropolitan area and Florida. Hair Cuttery now encompasses approximately 5,000 associates with over 500 salons.[1]

In April 2020 the chain was acquired by debtor in possession Hair Cuttery Salon Holdings Inc DBA Tacit Holdings LLC. The company is led by CEO Seth Gittlitz. The new Hair Cuttery Family of Brands has restored back pay earned by employees in the week before the chain suspended operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.[6][7]

Related enterprises

Privately held Hair Cuttery Family of Brands operates Hair Cuttery, BUBBLES, and Cibu. With over 500 salons, Hair Cuttery Family of Brands supports more than 5,000 stylists.

Hair Cuttery competes with Supercuts, Fantastic Sams, Sport Clips, Great Clips and several other franchised hair salon businesses.

References

  1. ^ a b c "About Us". Hair Cuttery. Retrieved December 4, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Hair Cuttery Wants to Let it Grow With Zimmerman: Ratner Companies Partners with Omnicom Retail Powerhouse for All of its Brands" (Press release). Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Zimmerman. May 3, 2018 – via PRNewswire.
  3. ^ a b "Women's Services". Hair Cuttery. Retrieved June 13, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "Men's & Kids' Services". Hair Cuttery. Retrieved June 13, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Allerton, Haidee (June 1996). "What things cost". Training & Development. 50 (6). Association for Talent Development.
  6. ^ Toutant, Charles (April 8, 2020). "Hair Cuttery Lawsuit Could Tee Up Coming Battles Over Layoffs Due to COVID-19: The suit, filed Tuesday in federal court in the District of New Jersey, could be a harbinger of a coming wave of litigation related to the mass layoffs in recent weeks at businesses whose operations were disrupted by COVID-19". New Jersey Law Journal. ALM Media Properties, LLC. Retrieved June 13, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Dailey, Kathleen (April 24, 2020). "Daily Labor Report: Hair Cuttery Blames Missed Pay on Virus, Files for Bankruptcy". Bloomberg Law. Retrieved June 13, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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