Margins and profitability in hairdressing and barber activities
493 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 4.1 % of every krone.
19 % of the companies in this industry posted a negative operating result that year.
The distribution
What companies in the industry earned
One tenth of companies fell below -2.5 %, and one tenth above 12.9 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.
Top against weakest third
Size
Profitability by size
| Revenue | Companies | Median operating margin |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 m | 165 | 4.3 % |
| 5 to 20 m | 307 | 4.1 % |
| 20 to 100 m | 17 | 4.1 % |
Companies are split into revenue bands, with the median margin in each. Bands with fewer than ten companies are omitted, because the median becomes too unstable to show.
Geography
Where the companies are based
- Oslo86
- Trondheim29
- Bergen23
- Ålesund12
- Stavanger9
- Tromsø9
The six postal towns with the most companies in this industry, by registered business address.
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
We find no public contracts awarded to companies in hairdressing and barber activities since 2022. Public procurement appears to play little or no role in this industry.
Contracts come from Doffin and TED. Our collection is not complete, and TED covers only contracts above the EEA threshold, so the figures are a floor and not a full count. We say what we find, not what exists.
Questions and answers
Common questions about hairdressing and barber activities
- What is a normal operating margin in hairdressing and barber activities?
- The median company kept 4.1 % of every krone. That means half of the 493 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in hairdressing and barber activities?
- The top third kept 10.9 % of every krone, against -0.5 % for the weakest third. The spread is 11 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in hairdressing and barber activities in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 493 Norwegian companies on this industry code with at least one million kroner in revenue. The real number is higher, since dormant and very small companies are excluded.
- How many are loss-making in hairdressing and barber activities?
- 19 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in hairdressing and barber activities?
- Median revenue is 5.9 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 4.7 m kr and 8.2 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in hairdressing and barber activities?
- We find almost no public contracts in this industry since 2022, so public procurement appears to play little role here.
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