Salon Smart may have been the new kid on the Dublin block but the people taking to the stage had been round it a time or two. The experts on the agenda – salon owners like Sabrina Hill of Cork’s Kopper, the Lloyds Hair team and Angie, Paul & Richard Dromgoole, the brains behind Zeba Hairdressing brought not only stellar business advice but refreshingly honest stories of their own learnings, successes and continual evolution. We had fresh-entrepreneurs too, such as the UK’s Siobhan Jones, who recently launched London salon Rose & Wild driven by bespoke experience. And who could forget a finale like no other from Paul Percival and Adam Reed, who have built their global brand Percy & Reed over 12 years but are on the cusp of a new journey, the standing ovation said it all…

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