Rush Moorgate salon team with Ortisé Williams from JLS
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Moorgate wins Rush Salon of the Year JLS star Ortisé Williams has presented Rush Moorgate with the Salon of the Year prize at the Rush Hair Awards. Held at Tiger Tiger nightclub in London, the awards celebrated the 66-salon group’s top achievers of 2012 and were co-hosted by international artistic director Andy Heasman and art team member, Dimitri Loizi. Chairman of Rush, Andy Phouli, welcomed the crowd,
Freelance federation launches wella bursary
Jamie Stevens stars at Fellowship event
The Fellowship for British Hairdressing has hosted a members’ night featuring celebrity hairdresser Jamie Stevens. Fellowship president Mark Creed hosted the evening and introduced three team presentations, before sitting down with Jamie Stevens to discuss his rise to the top. The stylist took over his mother’s salon in Somerset, before branching out by himself in London and becoming hair stylist to the X Factor.
The Freelance Hair & Beauty Federation (FHBF) is offering its members the chance to win one of 32 FHBF Training Bursaries, in partnership with Wella. Each member awarded a bursary can choose a place on a Wella training day at either Wella Studio London or Wella Studio Manchester. Each Training Bursary is worth up to £200. Anyone can apply for an FHBF Bursary and there is a small contribution of £35 to pay towards the course if funding is awarded. Closing date is 31 March, call 01582 043 1783 for information
before international creative director, Stell Andrew, gave a speech on the power of dreaming. Further awards went to Rush Windsor, which took home Franchise Salon of the Year, while Judith Rabanser from Rush Richmond won Stylist of the Year. A special award was also presented to Seung-ki Baek, who was inducted into the Rush Hair Artistic Team.
Bonce and Schwarzkopf Professional reveal new marketing match-up Carl Mitchell from Bonce Salons has revealed a new educational marketing course in association with Schwarzkopf Professional. The course, entitled Salon Exposure, is launching in Liverpool on Monday 18 March, with a second course date set for Monday 21 October. During the one-day course, Carl Mitchell, managing director of the West Midlands-based salon group, will cover aspects of marketing such as understanding how to market your salon correctly, as well as understanding your target markets and unique selling points. Mitchell said: “Salon Exposure will help salons look at the way they market their business and hopefully give them ideas and inspiration to excel in this area and ideally increase revenue.”
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