TOP Salon - The Challenge

The leading hairdressing magazine TOP HAIR International has been awarding the TOP salons for over 20 years. Not only German salons are competing for the award in this prestigious competition, but also salons from Austria and Switzerland! 15 teams are competing again in five categories to prove that they deserve the title TOP Salon 2025.

As part of TOP HAIR Düsseldorf, the winners of the "TOP Salon - The Challenge" competition will be announced at a festive awards ceremony on Saturday, 29 March 2025.

The five categories

Best Practice

Combining long-standing corporate tradition with renewal and growth

Digital Business

Digital measures in the company internally and externally

Design

Innovative, unique and unusual room designs

Employer

Employees as a success factor - recruiting, retaining, training & promoting

Eco Future

Social responsibility, sustainability and climate protection

Finalists

The jury of TOP Salon - The Challenge 2025

Numerous entries to the TOP Salon - The Challenge 2025 business competition reached the TOP Salon editorial team again this round. Once again, salons from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were able to apply.

The expert panel, consisting of hairdressing entrepreneurs Mario Krankl, Samatha Schüller, Manuela Härtelt-Dören, Alexander von Trentin and as well as Rebecca Kandler, Editor-in-chief and publishing director of TOP HAIR magazine, spent a day intensively examining all the applicants. In the end, they nominated three salons in each of the five categories of the competition.

Which of the 15 TOP Salon finalists will finally win and take home one of the coveted awards will be revealed to the nominees and the entire industry at the big awards ceremony at the TOP HAIR trade fair in Düsseldorf on 29 March 2025, when it will once again be: "The TOP Salon winners 20254 are ....".

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