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Meet Haylee Benton: the high-street salon saviour
Entrepreneur and Investor
“I am a beauty business buyer that can help turn yours around.”
Originally from New Zealand, and now living and working in the UK, Haylee Benton is an entrepreneur with experience in creating sustainable business growth, for her own start-ups and as a manager and director at multi-million-pound organisations.
Scaling businesses for profit
As a founder, Haylee has built a number of her own businesses from the ground up. Including a tech start-up founded in 2014, now with over 8,000 members, a trusted resource for consumers and professionals in the beauty and wellness sector.
“As an investor, I love to help businesses thrive to their full potential. My real passion is sharing what I’ve learned about building a successful business as a mentor to support new start-ups.”
Portfolio
Haylee Benton’s most recent success stories:
THE SILVER FERN GROUP
The Silver Fern Group is a portfolio of hair, beauty and skin businesses. Each created to complement one another, working to achieve exceptionally high standards in client experience and interior design. Delivering the most innovative treatments and catering to the changing needs of the beauty industry in a design led way is how the Silver Fern Group distinguishes itself from the rest. Bringing the best of beauty, business, and design together to create distinctive and well-respected brands is where Silver Fern excels.
ALCHEMY & I
Mixing amazing hair with sociability. Alchemy & I is a ground-breaking blow-dry bar, bringing a new concept to market, that combines exceptional standards in colour transformation with a unique VIP client experience. Sociability and luxury have defined this new approach to hair salons. A space created with some of London’s top interior designers, in its first year of business, Alchemy & I had a high net profit result and continues to grow to new locations including launching two more sites in its first year.
KOHA SKIN CLINIC
A luxury aesthetics clinic created for a pure and natural feel. Highly qualified staff and the latest in technology give an amazing experience and exceptional results for its clients. Designed and themed with a love of New Zealand in mind, Koha was created to turn the industry on its head with a comfortable feel and to make it accessible for all. Employing in-house experienced Nurses and Doctors, as well as top skincare experts, Koha is highly regarded in the aesthetics industry.
CECILY HYBRID SPA
A mix between a luxury day spa and a high street beauty salon makes Cecily unique as the first Hybrid Spa. Cecily is a heavenly utopia that is home to a team of beauty specialists who all boast prestigious training and experience. Beautiful aesthetics and high standards combine with a business model which Haylee believes makes Cecily one of the most efficient and profitable spas in the UK. Haylee has trade marked the Hybrid Spa name and is set to open more in the UK soon.
THE SILVER FERN GROUP
The Silver Fern Group is a portfolio of hair, beauty and skin businesses. Each created to complement one another, working to achieve exceptionally high standards in client experience and interior design.
ALCHEMY & I
Mixing amazing hair with sociability. Alchemy & I is a ground-breaking blow-dry bar, bringing a new concept to market, that combines exceptional standards in colour transformation with a unique VIP client experience. A space created with some of London’s top interior designers, in its first year of business, Alchemy & I had a high net profit result and continues to grow to new locations including launching two more sites in its first year.
KOHA SKIN CLINIC
A luxury aesthetics clinic created for a pure and natural feel. Highly qualified staff and the latest in technology give an amazing experience and exceptional results for its clients. Designed and themed with a love of New Zealand in mind, Koha was created to turn the industry on its head with a comfortable feel and to make it accessible for all. Employing in-house Nurses and Doctors, as well as top skincare experts, Koha is highly regarded in the aesthetics industry.
CECILY HYBRID SPA
The first Hybrid Spa… a mix between a luxury day spa and your typical beauty salon on the high street. Providing the ultimate location to relax and de-stress, Cecily is a heavenly utopia that is home to a team of the best therapists and beauty specialists who all boast prestigious training and experience gained in top spas, salons and colleges. Not only designed to be beautiful aesthetically, Cecily has a very high level of standards and a business model which Haylee believes makes Cecily one of the most efficient and profitable spas in the UK. Haylee has trade marked the Hybrid Spa name and is set to open more in the UK soon.
How Can Haylee Benton Help You?
Our team i actively looking for new salons to form part of our portfolio and can work in many ways to suit you. See our venture options below:
SELL YOUR SALON
Whether you are looking to retire or simply want a new career path, we are interested in buying any salon business. We come up with a transition plan to ensure your exit feels best for you.
INVEST IN YOUR SALON
We are always looking for businesses to invest in. We specialise in Hair, Beauty and Aesthetics however, we are open to investing in other businesses that can complement our portfolio.
We invest in many ways to make it work for both of us; it could be for a start-up business or existing business.
SAVE YOUR SALON
Is your business in trouble? Having a hard time with cashflow and bills mounting up? Haylee can help. Our expert team can do an analysis/ health check of your business and give you options for solutions.