AG Hair

AG Hair was founded in 1989 by Lotte Davis, a South African-born graphic designer and her husband John Davis, a hairdresser from Liverpool, in their North Vancouver basement.[2][3][4] AG Hair initially created bulk generic shampoos and conditioners that were bottled and labeled by hand.[2][5] The Davises began to formulate and manufacture their own professional hair care products, which they sold to salons directly beginning in 1990.[2][6] In 2001, AG Hair products began selling to salons in the United States.[2]

John and Lotte Davis (parents of actress Mackenzie Davis) are co-CEOs of AG Hair, which has 85 employees and sells in 14,000 salons in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Taiwan.[7] AG Hair manufactures and distributes products from Canada.[7]

In 2008, Lotte Davis founded Women Leading Change Foundation to help African girls obtain an education by building schools.[8][9] AG Hair contributes 10 cents from every liter of product sold to support education for girls and women in Africa, through Every Bottle Counts.[6][10][11] Since its founding, proceeds from AG Hair product sales have raised over $2 million[12] and built five schools in Sub-Saharan Africa.[13] In 2015, AG Hair launched limited-edition packaging of its hairspray, Revamp, and its Firewall Argan Flat Iron Spray to raise funds for One Girl Can. 50 cents of each bottle sold goes to the foundation.[12][14][15]

In October 2008, John and Lotte Davis received the Pacific Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for business-to-business products and services for AG Hair.[16] That year AG Hair was named one of the best companies to work for in British Columbia by BC Business Magazine.[17]

In 2012, Davis founded One Girl Can, a registered charity, with employees in Canada and Kenya. One Girl Can provides secondary, vocational, and university scholarships to eligible girls in Africa.[18][19] AG Hair was featured in Business Vancouver's list of top 100 biggest manufacturers in Metro Vancouver in 2016.[20] In 2017 and 2018, Deloitte named AG Hair Care one of the best managed companies in Canada.[21][22][23]