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Sport Clips
Sport Clips is a franchised hair-care provider focused on services tailored to men and boys. It has more than 650 stores across the United States.

Stores feature a sports-themed interior with a big screen television in the lobby, televisions at each cutting station tuned to sports, and stylists dressed in sports attire.

The privately held company’s franchise concept has been written about in the Wall Street Journal, ,. as well as other aspects of the company by media outlets such as Entrepreneur Magazine, CNBC, the Associated Press , Franchise Times , American Salon , and Dun & Bradstreet’s AllBusiness.com.

Media outlets that have covered Sport Clips include the Austin Business Journal, Dallas Morning News , Crain’s Chicago Business , Modern Salon , and Franchising World , and the book Franchising for Dummies recognized Sport Clips for its market niche.

Affiliations

Sport Clips sponsors Joey Logano of Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. It is the “Official Haircutter” of several teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), and National Hockey League (NHL). Sport Clips is also the “Official Haircutter” of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and is a supporter of the VFW’s Operation Uplink free call days program.

History

Based in Georgetown, Texas, Sport Clips was founded by military veteran, CPA, MIT and Wharton School of Business graduate, Gordon Logan. In the early '90s, Logan recognized the potential and relative lack of competition in the men's and boys’ hair care segment. The first Sport Clips opened in 1993 in Austin, Texas and franchising began in 1995. Sport Clips expects to have 700 stores open by year end 2009.

Sport Clips

Type		Private/Franchise

Founded		2003

Franchised	2005

Founder		Gordon Logan

Headquarters	Georgetown, TX

Website

Categories: Companies based in Georgetown, Texas;  Franchises;  Veterans;  VFW Operation Uplink; Salons; Health and Beauty; Companies established in 1995