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Hair & Nail Salons in Canada - Market Research Report (2014-2029)

Shawn McGrath Shawn McGrath New York, United States Last Updated: September 2024 NAICS 81211CA

Revenue

$5.9bn

2024

$5.9bn

Past 5-Year Growth

Profit

$XXX.Xm

Employees

70,025

Businesses

44,388

Wages

$X.Xbn

Hair & Nail Salons in Canada industry analysis

Hair and nail salons in Canada have seen shrinking profit over the past five years even as they expand their product and service offerings. Increased consumer spending on high-profit products hasn't offset the impact of rising external competition. Social media platforms provide consumers with DIY beauty treatment knowledge, presenting a cost-effective alternative to traditional salon services. Additionally, DIY hair and nail kits have become more prevalent, allowing consumers to achieve salon-like results at home. Still, many salon owners and independent stylists have leveraged platforms like Instagram to expand their client base and maintain relatively high profit. Revenue has been swelling at a CAGR of 0.5% to an estimated $5.9 billion over the five years through 2024, including an expected 0.7% rise in 2024 alone.

Trends and Insights

  • Hair and nail salons are offering more services to cater to consumers with varying budgets. Heightened consumer spending will continue shifting more consumers toward more premium personal care services.
  • Demand for haircuts isn't contingent on economic conditions. Surging disposable income leads consumers to seek more professional services, like hair colouring.
  • Highly populated urban areas are ideal locations for hair and nail salons. Busy consumers are attracted to salons that offer a one-stop shop for multiple services.
  • Sole proprietors and booth rentals compose most of the industry. This has pushed market share concentration down due to minimal upfront costs.

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Industry Statistics and Trends

Market size and recent performance (2014-2029)

Industry revenue has grown at a CAGR of 0.5 % over the past five years, to reach an estimated $5.9bn in 2024.

Trends and Insights

An evolving online landscape is weighing on profit

  • Despite expanding offerings of products and services, as well as rising consumer spending on high-profit products and services, profit has declined in the last few years.
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Hair & Nail Salons in Canada
Revenue (2014-2029)
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Industry outlook (2024-2029)

Market size is projected to grow over the next five years.

Trends and Insights

Environmental and safety preferences are driving change

  • As consumers have become more and more environmentally conscious, industry operators have followed suit. Hair and nail salons are carrying more eco-friendly and nontoxic products, and cosmetic companies are continuing to remove harmful chemicals from many hair and nail salon products.

Biggest companies in the Hair & Nail Salons in Canada

Company
Market Share (%)
2024
Revenue ($m)
2024
Profit ($m)
2024
Profit Margin (%)
2024

There are no companies that hold a large enough market share in the Hair & Nail Salons in Canada industry for IBISWorld to include in this product.

Products & Services Segmentation

Hair & Nail Salons in Canada
Products & Services
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Industry revenue is measured across several distinct product and services lines, including Haircutting services, Hair colouring and tinting services and Other hair care services. Haircutting services is the largest segment of the Hair & Nail Salons in Canada.

Trends and Insights

Consumers prioritize haircutting services, but other services are growing

  • This segment includes cutting, trimming, shaping, layering and otherwise reducing hair length for all genders and age groups. It also includes the shampooing, blow-drying and styling that is associated with the haircut.
  • More insights available in the full report

Table of Contents

About this industry

Industry definition

Operators in the Hair and Nail Salons industry in Canada mainly offer hair and nail care services. These companies may also provide facials and makeup applications. This industry does not include operators that primarily offer training in barbering or hairstyling, nor does it include electrolysis, permanent makeup or tanning services.

What's included in this industry?

Providing haircutting servicesProviding hair colouring or tinting servicesProviding nail care servicesProviding skin care servicesProviding other beauty care servicesProviding other hair care servicesSelling merchandise

Companies

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Related Terms

COLORED GELSKERATIN TREATMENTPERMANENT HAIR TEXTURE MODIFICATION

Industry Code

NAICS 2007

NAICS 81211 - Hair & Nail Salons in Canada

Performance

Get an indication of the industry's health through historical, current and forward-looking trends in the performance indicators that make or break businesses.

Analyst insights

Hair and nail salons are offering more services to cater to consumers with varying budgets. Heightened consumer spending will continue shifting more consumers toward more pre...

In this chapter (4)

  • Current Performance
  • Outlook
  • Volatility
  • Life Cycle

Key metrics

  • Annual Revenue, Recent Growth, Forecast, Revenue Volatility
  • Number of Employees, Recent Growth, Forecast, Employees per Business, Revenue per Employee
  • Number of Businesses, Recent Growth, Forecast, Employees per Business, Revenue per Business
  • Total Profit, Profit Margin, Profit per Business

Charts

  • Revenue, including historical (2014-2023) and forecast (2024-2029)
  • Employees, including historical (2014-2023) and forecast (2024-2029)
  • Businesses, including historical (2014-2023) and forecast (2024-2029)
  • Profit, including historical (2014-2024)
  • Industry Volatility vs. Revenue Growth
  • Industry Life Cycle

Detailed analysis

  • Trends in supply, demand and current events that are driving current industry performance
  • Expected trends, economic factors and ongoing events that drive the industry's outlook
  • Key success factors for businesses to overcome volatility
  • How contribution to GDP, industry saturation, innovation, consolidation, and technology and systems influence the industry's life cycle phase.

Products and Markets

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Analyst insight

Demand for haircuts isn't contingent on economic conditions. Surging disposable income leads consumers to seek more professional services, like hair colouring.

In this chapter

  • Products & Services
  • Major Markets

Key metrics

  • Largest market segment and value in 2024
  • Product innovation level

Charts

  • Products & services segmentation in 2024
  • Major market segmentation in 2024

Detailed analysis

  • Trends impacting the recent performance of the industry's various segments
  • Innovations in the industry's product or service offering, specialization or delivery method
  • Key factors that successful businesses consider in their offerings
  • Buying segments and key trends influencing demand for industry products and services

Geographic Breakdown

Discover where business activity is most concentrated in an industry and the factors driving these trends to find opportunities and conduct regional benchmarking.

Analyst insights

Highly populated urban areas are ideal locations for hair and nail salons. Busy consumers are attracted to salons that offer a one-stop shop for multiple services.

In this chapter (1)

  • Business Locations

Charts

  • Share of revenue, establishment, wages and employment in each province
  • Share of population compared to establishments in each region in 2024

Tables

  • Number and share of establishments in each province in 2024
  • Number and share of revenue each province accounts for in 2024
  • Number and share of wages each province accounts for in 2024
  • Number and share of employees in each province in 2024

Detailed analysis

  • Geographic spread of the industry across North America, and trends associated with changes in the business landscape
  • Key success factors for businesses to use location to their advantage

Competitive Forces

Get data and insights on what's driving competition in an industry and the challenges industry operators and new entrants may face, with analysis built around Porter's Five Forces framework.

Analyst insights

Sole proprietors and booth rentals compose most of the industry. This has pushed market share concentration down due to minimal upfront costs.

In this chapter (4)

  • Concentration
  • Barriers to Entry
  • Substitutes
  • Buyer & Supplier Analysis

Key metrics

  • Industry concentration level
  • Industry competition level and trend
  • Barriers to entry level and trend
  • Substitutes level and trend
  • Buyer power level and trend
  • Supplier power level and trend

Charts

  • Market share concentration among the top 4 suppliers from 2019-2024
  • Supply chain including upstream supplying industries and downstream buying industries, flow chart

Detailed analysis

  • Factors impacting the industry’s level of concentration, such as business distribution, new entrants, or merger and acquisition activity.
  • Key success factors for businesses to manage the competitive environment of the industry.
  • Challenges that potential industry entrants face such as legal, start-up costs, differentiation, labor/capital intensity and capital expenses.
  • Key success factors for potential entrants to overcome barriers to entry.
  • Competitive threats from potential substitutes for the industry’s own products and services.
  • Key success factors for how successful businesses can compete with substitutes.
  • Advantages that buyers have to keep favorable purchasing conditions.
  • Advantages that suppliers have to maintain favorable selling conditions.
  • Key success factors for how businesses can navigate buyer and supplier power.

Companies

Learn about the performance of the top companies in the industry.

Analyst insights

The salon industry has no leading company due to a lack of consolidation and a high degree of market fragmentation. The industry is composed of many small, independent compan...

In this chapter

  • Market Share Concentration
  • Companies
  • Company Spotlights

Charts

  • Industry market share by company in 2020 through 2024
  • Major companies in the industry, including market share, revenue, profit and profit margin in 2024

Detailed analysis

    External Environment

    Understand the demographic, economic and regulatory factors that shape how businesses in an industry perform.   

    Analyst insights

    Each province sets its own guidelines when it comes to personal service establishments. While the salon industry in Canada is subject to minimal provincial and federal regula...

    In this chapter

    • External Drivers
    • Regulation & Policy
    • Assistance

    Key metrics

    • Regulation & policy level and trend
    • Assistance level and trend

    Charts

    • Regulation & Policy historical data and forecast (2014-2029) 
    • Assistance historical data and forecast (2014-2029) 

    Detailed analysis

    • Demographic and macroeconomic factors influencing the industry, including Regulation & Policy and Assistance
    • Major types of regulations, regulatory bodies, industry standards or specific regulations impacting requirements for industry operators
    • Key governmental and non-governmental groups or policies that may provide some relief for industry operators.

    Financial Benchmarks

    View average costs for industry operators and compare financial data against an industry's financial benchmarks over time. 

    Analyst insights

    Hair and nail salons in Canada encounter varying costs depending on their scale, location, use of technology and other factors. To offset costs, salons offer specialty servic...

    In this chapter

    • Cost Structure
    • Financial Ratios
    • Key Ratios

    Key metrics

    • Profit margin, and how it compares to the sector-wide margin
    • Average wages, and how it compares to the sector-wide average wage
    • Largest cost component as a percentage of revenue
    • Industry average ratios for days' receivables, industry coverage and debt-to-net-worth ratio

    Charts

    • Average industry operating costs as a share of revenue, including purchases, wages, depreciation, utilities, rent, other costs and profit in 2024
    • Average sector operating costs as a share of revenue, including purchases, wages, depreciation, utilities, rent, other costs and profit in 2024
    • Investment vs. share of economy

    Data tables

    • Liquidity Ratios (2017-2022)
    • Coverage Ratios (2017-2022)
    • Leverage Ratios  (2017-2022)
    • Operating Ratios (2017-2022)
    • Assets (2017-2022)
    • Liabilities (2017-2022)
    • Cash Flow & Debt Service Ratios (2014-2029)
    • Revenue per Employee (2014-2029)
    • Revenue per Enterprise (2014-2029)
    • Employees per Establishment (2014-2029)
    • Employees per Enterprise (2014-2029)
    • Average Wage (2014-2029)
    • Wages/Revenue (2014-2029)
    • Establishments per Enterprise (2014-2029)
    • IVA/Revenue (2014-2029)
    • Imports/Demand (2014-2029)
    • Exports/Revenue (2014-2029)

    Detailed analysis

    • Trends in the cost component for industry operators and their impact on industry costs and profitability 

    Key Statistics

    Industry Data

    Data Tables

    Including values and annual change:

    • Revenue (2014-2029)
    • IVA (2014-2029)
    • Establishments (2014-2029)
    • Enterprises (2014-2029)
    • Employment (2014-2029)
    • Exports (2014-2029)
    • Imports (2014-2029)
    • Wages (2014-2029)

    Top Questions Answered

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    What is the market size of the Hair & Nail Salons industry in Canada in 2024?

    The market size of the Hair & Nail Salons industry in Canada is $5.9bn in 2024.

    How many businesses are there in the Hair & Nail Salons in Canada industry in 2024?

    There are 44,388 businesses in the Hair & Nail Salons industry in Canada, which has grown at a CAGR of 3.1 % between 2019 and 2024.

    Has the Hair & Nail Salons industry in Canada grown or declined over the past 5 years?

    The market size of the Hair & Nail Salons industry in Canada has been growing at a CAGR of 0.5 % between 2019 and 2024.

    What is the forecast growth of the Hair & Nail Salons industry in Canada over the next 5 years?

    Over the next five years, the Hair & Nail Salons industry in Canada is expected to grow.

    What does the Hair & Nail Salons in Canada include?

    Providing haircutting services and Providing hair colouring or tinting services are part of the Hair & Nail Salons industry.

    How competitive is the Hair & Nail Salons industry in Canada?

    The level of competition is low and increasing in the Hair & Nail Salons industry in Canada.

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    Key data sources in Canada include:

    • Statistics Canada
    • Industry Canada
    • Canadian Business Patterns

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    • Industry federations or regulators
    • Major industry players annual or quarterly filings

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