Cost of living: Hairdressers
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this Business Daily mini series we're exploring how businesses we all use regularly are being affected by the cost of living crisis. This episode looks at how hairdressers are coping as the price of power and hair products continues to increase.
Leanna Byrne speaks to hairdressers in South Africa, the USA and Germany – all report difficulties with rising overheads and the need to start passing those costs on to customers. We also look at how one haircare brand, selling direct to consumers, is seeing increased sales but also increased manufacturing costs and longer turn-around times.
Presenter / Producer: Leanna Byrne Additional production: Olivia Wilson Image: Hairdressing; Credit: Getty
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| 0:20.9 | If you're like me and you couldn't style her hair to save your life, let alone cut it, |
| 0:26.2 | then you'll know that a trip to the hairdresser isn't just a luxury, it's a necessity. |
| 0:30.9 | When the salons reopened after lockdown, it took me more than a month to get an appointment for cut colour and blow dry. |
| 0:36.5 | And I'm fairly sure it was the same again trying to get an appointment for cut colour and blow dry. And I'm fairly |
| 0:37.5 | sure it was the same again trying to get an appointment a few months later. I didn't mind |
| 0:41.5 | though. Business was back. Hair dryers were going full blast and it was nice to see. But fast |
| 0:48.0 | forward to mid-20202, my energy bills are up. The weekly shop is costing me an arm and a leg. And I'm thinking, |
| 0:55.9 | are my grey's that bad? It's time to talk about the hair care industry. |
| 1:00.8 | Hello, I'm Leanna Byrne and welcome to Business Daily here on the BBC World Service. |
| 1:06.3 | We're taking a look at how the rise in the cost of living is affecting different industries. |
| 1:10.8 | Today, we're taking a look at the $83.4 billion hair care industry |
| 1:15.5 | and how businesses all across the industry, from salons to hair product producers, are being |
| 1:21.0 | squeezed by rising prices. |
| 1:22.9 | All the countries that we track were already seen price increases in hair care, |
| 1:27.3 | and that includes growth |
| 1:28.6 | in some of the largest markets within hair care as well. For many hair salons, the combination |
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