Great Clips Opens Hair Salon Franchise in Gloucester, MA

Great Clips franchise located in the Gloucester Crossing Shopping Center

Rob Goggins, vice president of franchise development for Great Clips, Inc., announced the Grand Opening of the company's newest hair salon franchise business in the Gloucester Crossing Shopping Center in Gloucester, MA.

"Our manager-run hair salon business is conveniently located off Highway 128," said Goggins. "This 200,000 square feet retail shopping center sits on 34 acres and is anchored by Marshall's, Market Basket, Dollar Tree, and of course our Great Clips franchise salon. The demographics of the area are well suited for our value-priced, no appointment necessary service.

"Our franchise owners open to a $55-billion hair-care industry. With more than $700 million in total system-wide sales, Great Clips is the industry leader and our hair salon business plan is recession resistant. We just recorded our 22^nd consecutive quarter of same-store-sales growth."

About Great Clips :

Great Clips is North America's largest hair-care brand with more than 2,800 salons conveniently located in high-visibility strip malls in nearly 140 markets. Great Clips is ranked as the number one hair salon brand franchise for 2010 by AllBusiness.com and consistently ranks among

magazine's Franchise 500Ò.

also ranked Great Clips as one of their Fastest Growing and one of America's Top Global Franchises for 2009.