Business View Magazine | February 2018

30 31 FANTASTIC SAMS 1 (844) GIBSMEN www.gibsgrooming.com If you’re tired of the same old beard oils tattoo oil or hair care products for men, it’s time for a change. Gibs Grooming has created a line of award-winning grooming products for men – not just run-of-the-mill products, but double-duty goods for beards, bodies and hair that will get you out the door twice as quick while smelling three times better than yesterday. Gibs crafts kick-ass grooming gear for ev- ery man. After realizing every other product on the market never came close to measur- ing up, they created their own – and they set the bar so high, the only competition is with themselves. Other beard and facial hair care products were too heavy, too smelly, and just wrong. What the market needed was a product line of quality and that worked as hard as men do. It needed something right. With Gibs Grooming, you don’t have to think twice about grooming because they’ve done it for you. Great grooming doesn’t have to be complicated. Check us out online at www.gibsgrooming.com. own line of products,”saysTarnowski,“so themargin for Fantastic Sams’product sales is higher. From a franchisee point of view, they can take their revenue as high as they want with added services. It’s a nice benefit.” Led by a sleek new salon design, attractive financ- ing for franchise owners, and open territory, Fantas- tic Sams has posted one of its best development years in the past decade.New owners are joining Fantastic Sams through the purchase of existing units, opening new salons, or a combination of existing salons and new locations.“I see immense growth potential in our North American operations and the opportunity to recruit, train, and innovate the beauty care and stylists of the future,”Costanza says. No doubt,SamRoss would be proud of his iconic brand’s continued success. PREFERRED VENDORS n EPX Credit Card Processing Inc. www.epx.com Founded in 1979, Electronic Payment Exchange (EPX) provides transaction payment processing platforms with end- to-end payment solutions for merchants, banks, ISOs, public utilities, franchises, and third-party processors around the world. The company offers traditional POS, internet-related, self-service kiosks, parking meters, credit card processing, and debit card processing solutions. By operating as a fully integrated payment facilitator, EPX differentiates itself in the marketplace by pro- viding real time interchange optimization and state-of –the-art, secure transaction solutions. In 2014, EPX was acquired by North American Bancard (NAB), one of the nation’s top payment ser- vices companies and the leading provider of the PayAnywhere suite of mobile point of sale solutions. n Satin Smooth beBare www.satinsmooth.com Satin Smooth is a professional division of the Conair Cor-