PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF SPORT CLIPSJEFF BURROUGHSlives in a
rural area south of Baltimore
and in 2009 was seeking a side
gig while working full-time in
the auto industry. The options
were limited. He needed
something flexible that would
allow him to coach his sons’
football and baseball teams
and continue his civic duties as
a volunteer firefighter. That’s
how he found what would
become far more than a side
gig: Franchising.
“Originally, I bought a three-
pack of Sport Clips to pay for
my kids’ college,” he says, by
which he means three units of
the salon where men and boys
come to get haircuts and watch
sports on the shop’s myriad
televisions. But pretty quickly,
he realized how much his pro-
fessional skills could bolster
his small businesses, and today
he owns 17 locations, with two
more in the works. “I don’t
need to know how to cut hair.
I just need to coach people,
and I know how to coach,
manage, and market.”
Burroughs is the type of
franchisee helping fuel Sport
Clips’ growth. When he
started, he was advised that
certain counties in his area
SPORTS clips
Founded/ 1993, Austin, Tex.
U.S. & Canadian units/ 750 1,
Cost to open first unit/ $189,300 to $354,500could support only one Sport
Clips location. But he knew
what would work in his region;
now most have two. Sport Clips
in total opened 130 locations
in 2017 and aims to hit 2,000
salons by 2019, focusing on
California, the Northeast, and
the upper Midwest.
Sport Clips isn’t alone in
the marketplace, of course—
even a quick flip through our
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*Net sales average of $1,398,616 is based on the net sales average for the 167 stores that represent the top 25% of all 668 stores open during the entire 2016 calendar year. Of those 167 stores, 60 stores
(or 41% of the 167 stores in the top quartile) met or exceeded the net revenue average (or 8.98% of the 668 stores open during the entire 2016 calendar year). ** See Item 19 of our 2017 FDD for details.
$1,398,616 average revenue net revenue
*Multiple revenue streams with batteries,
bulbs, phone/tablet repair for retail and
commercial customers
52.5% average merchandise margin
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