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Great Clips featured in The Latino Journal

When you work for a company with more than a thousand franchise owners, there are many inspiring stories about success, leadership, compassion and generosity. Recently Great Clips owner Ken Gallegos was featured in The Latino Journal E-News, an e-zine that focuses on “public policy and government from a Latino perspective.” The article reports on the growth of Latino-owned businesses. Ken reveals that he was raised in a family of red, white and blue entrepreneurs who “‘ran a bar, restaurant and gas station.’” I’m happy to report that Ken borrowed on his DNA and opened his first Great Clips franchise seven years ago. Today he owns salons in Golden, Alamosa and Windsor, Colorado, and Taos, New Mexico, and plans to open two more. We’re proud Ken is part of our franchise family, and gratified that we can be a source of success and security for his family’s future.

Staff Recruiting, a bit easier with Great Clips

A well-known national brand carries with it certain benefits. Most times people associate a dominant retail brand with customers: more of them shopping more often. However, there's an overlooked benefit that's essential to business success: staff recruiting. Case in point, I was in Phoenix on business and had my hair cut at a Great Clips salon. The stylist cutting my hair said she had worked for the same franchisee twice over the past ten years. She worked briefly for an independent salon, but that didn’t work out, so she came right back to Great Clips and was welcomed with open arms. I asked what brought her to Great Clips in the first place. She said her cousin was a stylist at Great Clips for 15 years and always encouraged her to join the "family." These cousins had a combined 25 years of service working for Great Clips. Most white collar firms would be envious of this sort of longevity.

Several months ago on a visit to a local Great Clips here in Minneapolis, I mentioned to the stylist that we'd recently opened the Boston market to new franchisees. "Boston?!," she exclaimed. "I love Boston, and have always wanted to work there!" Then she revealed something I didn't expect: this was her fifth Great Clips salon in 20 years in five different cities. She loves living in different areas and Great Clips is her anchor. "The first thing I do when I get to town is contact the local Great Clips franchise owner and inquire about a job," she said. "I know the system so well I just hit the ground running."

Time and again our franchisees recount similar stories – prospective employees seek them out because of our network of locations and system standardization. North America's largest hair salon franchise brand carries with it many benefits for our franchisees, including making staff recruiting just a bit easier.