Nine established salons, one operating platform.

Scale that is hard to build. Nine units in a single metro is a platform, not a startup. A buyer steps into an operating business with established staff, systems, vendor relationships, and a management layer already running the day to day. This is a rare chance to acquire multi-unit scale in one transaction rather than assembling salons one at a time.

• Absentee-ready, lean management. A general manager oversees the portfolio and salon managers are in place, with several running more than one location. All nine salons are covered without the owners on site. Earnings are shown after replacing the two owners with a single hired manager.
• A model built for consistency. Every salon runs the same Great Clips walk-in system: no appointments, no color, no clientele-building, transparent pricing across three tiers, and Cuts Per Hour (CPH) as the core throughput metric.
• Defensive category. Haircuts are non-discretionary and repeat. Great Clips is the largest hair-cutting brand in North America, and the franchisor runs national brand marketing.
• Immediate bolt-on. For a consolidating franchisee, nine qualified units drop straight into an existing operation.

The nine salons sit in two coherent regional clusters roughly two hours apart, both inside the DC DMA. By state: Maryland 5, Virginia 2, West Virginia 2.

Salon 4116 (Inwood) opened in May 2026 and is still ramping. It is valued at asset cost and represents upside as it reaches its siblings' run rate.

Figures are drawn from the Company's QuickBooks Online profit and loss by salon, trailing twelve months to June 2026, unaudited management accounts, subject to buyer verification in due diligence.

Three-year trend

Revenue grew about 16% from 2024 into 2025 and has held near $3.2M since, with SDE at a current high. 2024 was a lower-revenue year, so the trailing-twelve-month figures are the most representative measure of the platform today. TTM SDE is normalized for the one-time 2026 salon refresh, which is now complete.

Investment income held by the Company is excluded from business earnings. It is not part of the operating business and is not offered for sale.

Great Clips salons are valued on a blend of two methods, benchmarked against actual franchise resales: a percentage of sales and a multiple of cash flow. A generic small-business earnings multiple understates them. Multi-unit platforms command a premium to single-salon resales, mainly through a higher percentage of sales, because a buyer acquires scale, a management layer, and immediate cash flow.

Benchmarks are the average and median of Great Clips single-unit and multi-unit resales over 2023 to 2025, the same transaction data used in the valuation model. Larger deals in the highest sales bands have traded at the top of these ranges and above. Any individual salon with negative cash flow is valued at a $75,000 replacement-cost floor, the minimum cost to build a Great Clips salon, rather than at a cash-flow multiple.

This platform is evaluated on the multi-unit basis, against approximately $3.2M of sales and its cash flow. Serious buyers are asked to evaluate it on the management structure, lease terms, and remaining franchise terms in the data room, and to submit an indication of interest. Price is by discussion.

The platform is offered primarily as a single nine-salon portfolio to one buyer. The Company will also consider either regional cluster on its own, giving a buyer a coherent, self-contained sub-market.

1. Execute an NDA.Receive the full confidential memorandum and access to the diligence data room.
2. Submit an indication of interest or LOI.Confirm structure, indicative price, and timeline.
3. Confirmatory due diligence.Financials by salon, leases, franchise agreements, staffing, and systems.
4. Franchisor approval and landlord consents.Great Clips transfer approval and lease assignments run in parallel.
5. Definitive agreement and close.Purchase agreement signed, transaction closed.