Nails Inc.

Nails Inc.
Nails Inc.
Type Nail bar
Industry Retail
Founded 1999
Founder(s) Thea Green, Marie Therese
Headquarters London, England
Area served United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Hong Kong
Key people Thea Green
Revenue £10.5M
Employees 400
Website http://www.nailsinc.com

Nails Inc. is a London, England based nail bar chain, presently with 60 outlets across the United Kingdom.[1]

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Thea Green

Thea Green was born and brought up in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula, near Liverpool;[2] the daughter of a company director of Littlewoods, and a mother who owned a snooker hall. Green and her brother worked both at her mother's snooker hall, and in local Saturday jobs. After leaving school at age 18, she completed a degree in public relations and journalism at the London College of Fashion. While studying, she assisted on the fashion desk at the Daily Mail newspaper, and then Tatler magazine. Joining Tatler as fashion co-oordinator on graduation, she became fashion editor aged 24.[3] Married with three children under the age of seven, Green lives in Fulham she has a older brother and a younger sister her brother dan and her sister gigi.[4]

Green was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to the beauty industry.[5]

History

Green noticed on travelling to New York city, the number of nail bars that were easily available. Working on a business plan with business partner Marie Therese, they raised £200,000 through investors, and launched their first store in 1999 in South Molton Street in the West End of London.[4]

After opening the first three stores in London, as the business expanded Therese left the business with her family for the United States.[6] In 2000, Nails Inc opened department store concessions. In 2003, the company launched their training academy for beauty therapists in London. In 2005 they launched the luxury "champagne nail bar."[6]

Present

Nails Inc. is presently the UK's largest nail bar chain, serving on average 10,000 customers per week through 60 locations. The company has concessions within key retailers, including Harvey Nichols, Selfridges, Fenwick, House of Fraser,[7] Debenhams[8] and John Lewis.[1]

The company now has stores in Ireland, Australia and Hong Kong. The first store in North America will open in December 2010 in Henri Bendel, the upmarket New York department store.[9]

The company has also developed Get Lashed, a diffusion brand for false eye lashes.[6]

Awards

  • 2010 Entrepreneurial Woman of the Future award[4]

2011 Awarded MBE (Member of the British Empire) 2011 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year

References

  1. ^ a b "About us". Nails Inc.. http://www.nailsinc.com/about-us. Retrieved 2010-11-19. 
  2. ^ {she has a older brother and a younger sister{citeweb|url=http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/8628220.Hoylake_born_Thea_Green_wins_prestigious_entrepreneur_award/%7Ctitle=Hoylake-born Thea Green wins prestigious entrepreneur award|publisher=Wirral Globe|date=10th November 2010|accessdate=2010-11-18}}
  3. ^ "New York trip inspired idea for nail bars". The Times. October 15, 2006. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/entrepreneur/article600538.ece. Retrieved 2010-11-18. 
  4. ^ a b c "Running a beauty empire? I've got it nailed! How a busy mother-of-three became a manicure multi-millonaire". Daily Mail. 19 November, 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1330906/How-Nails-Inc-founder-Thea-Green-busy-mother-3-multi-millonaire.html#ixzz15jk3rG2V. Retrieved 2010-11-19. 
  5. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59808. p. 16. 11 June 2011.
  6. ^ a b c "Thea Green - Nailing down success". Coutts. August 2009. http://www.coutts.com/woman/2009/aug/features/thea-green.asp. Retrieved 2010-11-19. 
  7. ^ "Nails Inc @ House of Fraser". House of Fraser. http://www.houseoffraser.co.uk/on/demandware.store/Sites-hof-Site/default/Search-Show?prefn1=brand&prefv1=Nails%20Inc. Retrieved 2010-11-19. 
  8. ^ "Nails Inc @ Debenhams". Debenhams. http://www.debenhams.com/beauty/nails-inc. Retrieved 2010-11-19. 
  9. ^ "Nails Inc founder Thea Green says to those considering starting up: Just do it". Financial Mail Women's Forum. October 17th, 2010. http://www.fmwf.com/media-type/news/2010/10/nails-inc-founder-thea-green-says-to-those-considering-starting-up-just-do-it/. Retrieved 2010-11-19. 

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