Sport Clips Haircuts enjoying strong development year

Sport Clips Haircuts, the franchise destination for men’s and boy’s haircare, Wednesday announced that, with more than half of 2026 in the books, the brand is outperforming last year in terms of unit growth. Sport Clips is currently on pace to open a significant number of new units by end of year as they approach 1,800 total locations.

“We are certainly headed in the right direction,” said Brent Greenwood, vice president of franchise development for Sport Clips. “We opened more stores so far than we did all of last year. There’s just a lot of great momentum with both new and existing Team Leaders. It’s been a nice mix of both.”

The brand credits a variety of factors for their renewed growth. They have expanded with many of their existing owners, recruited new Team Members (their term for owner-operators), and are seeing opportunity in the market increase as competitors have reduced their investments in similar businesses or exited the space altogether. Their leadership says demand has now returned to pre-pandemic levels.

“There are now holes in the market due to competitors closing,” Greenwood said in a recent interview. “It opens a lot of opportunities from a real estate standpoint in areas we never had access to. It reset the real estate market in our industry. The strongest players end up capitalizing on these opportunities, and that is where we are today.”

According to Sport Clips, this year’s success is the result of multi-year planning and intentional leadership. While the brand has been in the marketplace for more than 30 years, Greenwood expressed that Sport Clips still feels there is ample room to grow in new and existing markets.

Sport Clips hopes to continue this momentum into the second half of 2026. They will continue to aggressively recruit new Team Leaders throughout the rest of the year, with the goals of opening new units and facilitating acquisitions of existing locations.

“We are on pace for a strong year of unit growth, and the momentum is incredibly positive across the board,” Greenwood said. “We are really open to entry points in every market across the country. We wouldn’t turn away a good team leader prospect anywhere.”