A British hair-styling tools brand, started in Yorkshire in 2001 and known as Good Hair Day, selling straighteners, curlers and hairdryers around the world.
ghd, which stands for Good Hair Day, designs and sells hair styling tools. Its best-known products are stylers, including the ghd platinum and ghd gold, and it also sells the ghd curve curling tool and the ghd air hairdryer. The tools are sold to salons, in shops and online. The brand is part of the beauty and personal-care world, and it is about products rather than hairdressing services.
The company was founded in Yorkshire in 2001 by Robert Powls, Gary Douglas and Martin Penny. According to the brand's own history, three hairdressers brought a new straightening iron from Korea to the UK, and it became popular through salons and stylist recommendations. It then expanded abroad from 2003, into countries including Australia, Germany and France. Its mission, as the chief executive Jeroen Temmerman put it, is for everyone to start the day ready for a good hair day.
ghd's UK footprint is in Leeds and London. A Yorkshire Post report says about 120 staff moved into Wellington Place, a new eco-friendly office in central Leeds, where finance, digital and customer-service teams are based and from which, in the chief executive's words, the global organisation is guided. The same article states that ghd's headquarters is in London, so sources differ on how to describe the head office. A research and development lab opened in Cambridge in 2010, and by 2010 the company held 117 patents granted or pending.
The Yorkshire Post says ghd has around 1,000 staff worldwide, and credits employees around the world for the company's resilience. The company says it is focused on its purpose and on giving customers a good hair day. We did not find a dedicated page on its culture. Note that these figures are a few years old, and the article does not give a precise date.
Jobs at a company like this include product designers and engineers who work on heat and styling technology, scientists in the research lab, marketing and social media teams who work with stylists and customers, finance, digital and customer-service staff in Leeds, and sales teams who work with salons and retailers. If you like science, design or brands, this is a company where all three meet in an everyday product. Check the company's website for the latest roles and office details.
Website: www.ghdhair.com
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