(Includes Hard Copy, CD-ROM and Immediate Download)

Full and Limited Service Salons with/without Day Spas, Booth/Chair Rental Operations. Calculate staff pay in either % of gross or hourly to cover any scenario. Easily edits to cover any scenario. 

The Industry

According to the Regis Corporation the Worldwide Salon Industry is now worth more than $150 Billion dollars annually and since 2003 it has been growing at a 5.5% average annual growth rate. They also currently estimate the Domestic Hair Salon Industry to be worth more than $53 billion dollars annually. In 1996 the Industry was estimated to be $40 billion dollars indicating an annual average growth rate of approximately 2.6% compounded since 1996. That rate however took a hit at the end of 2008 as the recession that started in the last quarter of 2007 took hold and expectations are currently for the contraction in growth of at least 2.5% with growth slowing moving back to at least a positive 1.5% in 2010 as the Economy continued to exit the recession. We are now in a high-tech, high-touch world. Consumers are demanding knowledgeable, highly skilled professionals to perform their hair care, skin and body care services. Consumers’ main needs are to look professional, well-groomed and more youthful. Hair salons that diversify to offer personalized packages and spa services outperform others. Also, salons must offer styles that are easy to maintain and services at more convenient times. Between stress, aging and time constraints women are demanding more and more services and with higher disposable income, facilities to answer to these needs. According to Info USA databases there are over 236,000 Salons in the US as of December 2011.The CBO (Congressional Budget Office), expects that over the next year and a half, consumer spending will grow more slowly than in recent years. Contractions within any Industry are not all bad and in fact they can be very profitable for operators with an established clientele or new operators who have the understanding and the cash available to weather the storm. Already lower numbers of new  salons are coming into the market and the Economy will shake the weakest operators out leaving a much more profitable environment for operators who survive.   The Industry is tied directly to the health of the U.S. Economy and consumer disposable income. The CBO anticipates that the current recession, which started in December 2007, ended in the second quarter of 2009, making it the longest recession since World War II. Such growth compares to a 2.6% real rate of decline during 2009, the depths of the recession. The swing in performance from 2009 to 2010 was the widest since 1983, a period of 27 years. The increase in real GDP in 2010 primarily reflected positive contributions from private inventory investment, exports, personal consumption expenditures (PCE), nonresidential fixed investment, and federal government spending. Severe economic downturns often sow the seeds of robust recoveries. During a slump in economic activity, consumers defer purchases, especially for housing and durable goods, and businesses postpone capital spending and try to cut inventories. Once demand in the economy picks up, the disparity between the desired and actual stocks of capital assets and consumer durable goods widens quickly, and spending by consumers and businesses can accelerate rapidly. Although the CBO expects that the current recovery will be spurred by that dynamic, in all likelihood, the recovery will also be dampened by a number of factors. Those factors include slow wage and employment growth, high unemployment as well as a continued sluggish housing market. Current expectations by the CBO are for real GDP growth of 2.0% in 2012 and 1.1% in 2013.

The continued rebound in GDP will also affect real disposable income growth. Real DPI increased 1.8 percent in 2010, compared with an increase of 0.6 percent in 2009. In making these assumptions, it is important to keep the underlying economic projections in mind. CBO has forecast real GDP growth of 2.0 percent in 2012 and 1.1 percent in 2013. It then assumes an average growth rate of 4.1 percent for the years of 2014 to 2017. Inflation is expected to be modest, at 1.2 percent in 2012 and below 2 percent in all other years. The unemployment rate is assumed to be mostly unchanged from current levels. We do not reach “full employment” for several years, with the forecasted unemployment rate being 5.6 percent by 2017. With less uncertainty by businesses and investors as to tax policy this year and next and with rising expectations that split government in Washington will slow the explosion in government spending the economy looks poised for sustained growth as businesses and investors get back to the business of growing and expanding the bottom line. 

For operators just getting started this may be the best time within the business cycle to plan and open your new facility understanding that with interest rates still at all time low levels and marginal operators going out of business you will have accounted for the marginal efficiencies necessary to not only survive against the competition but to thrive as we cycle once again into economic expansion.

The Complete plan consists of hard copy and software files of the following :

Five Year Forecast Matrix (Spreadsheet File); type in your assumptions and all of the following statements are immediately calculated....42 pages;

Years 1-5 Operating Budgets

Years 1-5 Income Statements

Years 1-5 Balance Sheets

Years 1-5 Cash Flow Analysis

Years 1-5 Financial Ratio Analysis

Years 1-5 Summary Statements

Summary Charts

Use of Proceeds Statement

Equipment according to Department, Stylists, Nail Techs, Estheticians, Massage Therapists, Tanning and Other.

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Starting with the, "before you sit down checklist , you will gather your information together to edit on your word processor, (Macintosh, Windows, DOS, etc...) that information which does or does not apply to your Salon or organization....from your average ticket per customer and price list, to inventory, taxes, and staffing. Fill in the details to make this your own comprehensive business plan. Pull up the Five Year Financial Forecaster Spreadsheet and insert your average ticket price, number of stations, seat turnover, percentage splits, and operating expenses, and now study your first year cash flow analysis to answer the question of how much money you are going to need to get started and stay operational. All five years of financial statements are calculated and ready for printing and insertion into your plan. Once finished , print up your plan and simply place it into the three ring binder indexing it according to the pre-labeled index, included.

System Requirements

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