Ownership profile
Who owns Sport Clips?
Sport Clips is a privately held, founder-family-owned franchise company with no private equity involvement; its CEO has publicly stated the company has no outside or PE money and does not intend to take any.
Ownership profile
Sport Clips
Sport Clips, Inc.
Evidence (8)
Gordon Logan (founder) explicitly stated: "We're completely private. We have no outside money, no PE money, and we're not going to take PE money, even as a minority." He also confirmed zero PE franchisees.
https://www.franchisetimes.com/franchise_news/unit-declines-push-sport-clips-to-revamp-its-growth-strategy/article_858a72f8-d9b5-4148-8fa9-d630735d732a.htmlEdward Logan, son of founder Gordon Logan, is the current CEO of Sport Clips Haircuts, indicating the company remains under Logan family control.
https://www.franchisetimes.com/franchise_news/unit-declines-push-sport-clips-to-revamp-its-growth-strategy/article_858a72f8-d9b5-4148-8fa9-d630735d732a.htmlSport Clips operates as a franchise system; as of early 2026 approximately 1,799 shops were open, with 87 corporate-owned and the rest owned by 283 franchisees.
https://www.franchisetimes.com/franchise_news/unit-declines-push-sport-clips-to-revamp-its-growth-strategy/article_858a72f8-d9b5-4148-8fa9-d630735d732a.htmlThe operating legal entity behind the Sport Clips brand is Sport Clips, Inc., a Texas corporation incorporated on July 13, 1995, with its principal address at 110 Briarwood, Georgetown, Texas 78628.
https://www.franchimp.com/franchise/sport-clips-109050PitchBook classifies Sport Clips as a private company with no funding or investors listed.
https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/12335-23Tracxn reports Sport Clips as an unfunded company that has not raised any funding rounds.
https://tracxn.com/d/companies/sportclips/__mrONdzDkq-61X-hU_1LVLzDqCPFz0unr8s9__uaIrkISport Clips was founded by Gordon Logan in 1993 and is described across multiple sources as founder-owned.
https://sharpsheets.io/blog/sport-clips-franchise-costs-profits/A competitor profile on PitchBook (for Great Clips) labels Sport Clips as a 'Formerly PE-Backed company', but this contradicts direct statements by Sport Clips' own founder/CEO and no corroborating acquisition record was found; this signal is treated as unreliable data.
https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/12294-55What's uncertain
- PitchBook's competitor listing for Great Clips labels Sport Clips as 'Formerly PE-Backed', but no press release, SEC filing, or news source corroborates any past PE investment. This appears to be a PitchBook data error, contradicted by the founder's direct on-record statement.
- Ownership is private and not subject to public disclosure requirements; no state registry or SEC filing was retrieved to independently confirm the exact shareholder structure beyond founder/family.
- ZoomInfo's AI-generated summary references a '$10M investment in 2014' and a '$5M debt facility in 2020', but these figures are flagged on the source itself as potentially inaccurate AI-generated content and could not be verified against authoritative sources; they have not been used to adjust the PE score.
- The franchise flag applies at the brand/franchisor level (Sport Clips, Inc.); individual franchisees may have their own ownership structures, including potential PE backing at the franchisee level, which was not investigated.