In the past 27 years, Barton has built Great Clips into the world’s largest hair-care brand, expanding the firm from four salons with annual sales of $1 million to 2,800 franchised salons—more than any single salon brand company anywhere—with sales of approximately $760 million in 2009. In 2006 and again in 2007 Entrepreneur magazine named Edina-based Great Clips one of the nation’s top-25 fastest-growing franchise operations.
Great Clips’ current goal is to hit sales in excess of $1 billion within five years.
