Salon
Visits!
The SALONGENIUS Awards 2016 were to recognise
and support the hard work, achievements and initiatives of our customers in the
hair and beauty industry. This is our first year we have had the awards, we had
some amazing applications and really enjoyed reading about our customers and
hearing all about your salons.
The
Categories we judged were for the Front of House Team of the Year, Manager of
the Year, Retail Salon of the Year and Salon of the Year. There was £500 up for
grabs for Salon of the Year and £250 for the other categories.
We had a
great time going through all the applications and seeing how each of the salon
businesses are being so successfully run and how each of the salons are so different!
After lots of deliberation we announced our winners for our four categories:
SALON OF THE YEAR (Sponsored by Kennet Equipment Leasing): Evolve
Hairdressing York –
This application was so beautifully presented,
obviously a lot of time and effort had gone into putting the application
together – if the same amount of effort goes into looking after your clients
and business the salon must be a wonderful place to be. You can clearly see The
salon has an amazing business, they are also utilising the SALONGENIUS
system to the full. Well done to a fantastic team and over all our Salon of the
Year!
FRONT OF HOUSE TEAM OF THE YEAR: TONI&GUY
Shoreditch - What stood out for us was your
incredible percentage of customers who are loyalty card holders! The Front of
House team are clearly utilising the SALONGENIUS system to the
businesses benefit! Congratulations – keep up the good work!
MANAGER OF THE YEAR: TONI&GUY Canary Wharf -
Claire is clearly a very dedicated and passionate
Salon Manager and this can be seen in all aspects of the business. The team are
so complimentary about Claire and she obviously looks after the salon and the
team impeccably.
RETAIL SALON OF THE YEAR: TONI&GUY
Canary Wharf –
We were so impressed with your pop up stands
and the turnover these events generate. The salon has a really strong
initiative system for the staff to keep the team motivated. The salon training
and support each member of the team receive is clearly working!
As part of the
awards prize giving we visited each of our winner’s salons to present them with
their trophies and their prize money. We had such a good time visiting our
clients and seeing the salons!
Our most recent visit was to Linzi and her lovely team at
Evolve Hairdressing in York, where she was presented with the Salon of the Year
Award. Jemma presented Linzi with her award and their cheque from Kennet who
sponsored this category. The salon was absolutely buzzing, you could clearly
see what an incredible business Linzi and the team has developed. Charlene on
reception really uses SALONGENIUS to
its full potential and has trained all the staff very well so they are all
using the system correctly! The clearly cover all the bases in the salon with a
fantastic front of house team, incredible retail sales and a business model
that clearly works wonders! Well done Evolve you truly shine!
Here is Linzi and Charlene receiving their award with New Business Consultant Jemma Giddens from SALONGENIUS.
We also had a wonderful
time at Toni&Guy Canary Wharf meeting Claire to give her the Manager of the
Year and the salon’s Retail Salon of the Year awards.
Claire gave us a
tour around the salon which included the beauty area and the secluded backwash
area with their ‘signature lemongrass scent.’ Their retail area was very
impressive and it was clear to see why they are so good at retailing their
products as the shelves were being constantly updated and restocked. We talked
to the staff about using SALONGENIUS for
their stock control – needless to say they were utilising the system to the
max!
Our next stop on
the awards tour was at Toni&Guy Shoreditch where we met Stuart who showed
us around his gorgeous salon and told us about the inspiration around the
salon’s clean cut feel! The salon is very in keeping with the rest of the feel
of Shoreditch and you can tell Stuart is very proud of his salon! We talked
with the now award winning Front of House team about their loyalty scheme and
the dedicated barbers area downstairs – we loved the barbers chairs they are
beautiful! The team seemed really pleased with their award and its now in pride
of place at reception! Keep up the great work!
Here is Stuart and The Shoreditch Front of House Team receiving their award.
Thank you to all the salons who entered The SALONGENIUS Awards and also to Kennet Equipment Leasing who kindly sponsored our Salon of the Year category!
