GSP Salon Market Size and Trends 2004 Japan

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS 2

SECTION 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3

Table 1 The salon market in Japan at a glance 3

Market size and trends 3

Number of leading manufacturers and distributors 3

Number of salons and best performers 3

Currency 3

Date of publication 3

SECTION 2 MANUFACTURERS, BRANDS, AND DISTRIBUTORS 4

Table 2 Number of manufacturers and distributors in (Japan) 4

Table 3 Number of manufacturers and distributors in (Japan) 4

Salon manufacturers 4

Professional-only manufacturers 4

Companies with smaller sales in the professional market 5

Table 4 Distributors in the professional channel 5

Distribution structure 5

SECTION 3 MARKET OVERVIEW 7

Table 5 Salon sector turnover (Yen) 7

Market sizes 7

Market trends 7

Table 6 Salon hair care products market (2002) 8

Cosmetics market 8

Regulatory framework 8

SECTION 4 THE SALON SECTOR 10

Table 7 The salon sector in Japan 10

Regulations 10

Table 8 Sample salons - size per outlet, chairs and clients 10

Table 9 Salon market segments 11

Table 10 The top hair salons in Japan 11

Chains and foreign salon companies 11

Prestige salons 12

Salon programmes 13

Manufacturers and celebrity salons 13

SECTION 5 COMPANY PROFILES 15

Manufacturers 15

Distributors 18

Salons 19

Table 11 Sales of leading salon operators (2002) 21

Table 12 Company turnover by segment (2002) 21

SECTION 6 LIST OF AUTHORITIES 22

Government 22

Associations 23

Trade publications 25

Salon shows 26

INDEX OF COMPANY NAMES AND BRANDS 27