Kao Professional Salon Services GmbH

What Kao Professional Salon Services GmbH does

Kao Professional Salon Services GmbH is a German limited liability company (GmbH) with a stated headcount of approximately 30 employees. Its legal name and the disclosed firmographic identifiers are the only first-party facts available; the entity's registered web domain, kpss-hair.com, currently resolves to a default IONOS hosting placeholder page ("Diese Domain ist bereits registriert") with no product, brand, team, address, or service information, and no substantive corporate content whatsoever. No product portfolio, service offering, customer list, pricing, leadership team, geographic footprint, partnership, parent-company disclosure, or technology stack is documented in the supplied sources. The company name pattern suggests an affiliation with a professional hair-care or salon-services brand portfolio, but no such affiliation, ownership structure, operational status, or business activity is confirmed by the input data.

The operational, commercial, and financial profile of the entity cannot be characterized from the available evidence. Source notes repeatedly flag that firmographic, technology, distribution, marketing, and customer fields are absent or unpopulated, with the domain described as inactive and operational status indeterminate beyond a default 'operating' flag. Consequently, there are no observable inputs on revenue model, pricing, go-to-market motion, customer segments, competitive positioning, regulatory posture, or strategic activity to ground any descriptive claim beyond the legal name, headcount, and jurisdiction already stated.

In short, the input supports identifying the entity only as a German GmbH named "Kao Professional Salon Services GmbH" with around 30 employees and a registered but unused IONOS domain; all other substantive operational facts are data gaps rather than confirmed negatives.

Name

Kao Professional Salon Services GmbH

Legal name

Kao Professional Salon Services GmbH

Website

https://kpss-hair.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

German limited liability company (GmbH) named Kao Professional Salon Services GmbH with approximately 30 employees and a registered but inactive domain at kpss-hair.com showing only an IONOS hosting placeholder.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Hair Care Products

NAICS

Cosmetics, Beauty Supplies, and Perfume Retailers (456120)

akta.pro primary industry

Professional Hair Care (Shampoo, Conditioner, Treatments) (CRABALAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Professional/Salon Haircare (Backbar & Retail) (CRABABAK), Hair Care (Shampoo, Conditioner, Styling, Treatments) (CRADANAE), Professional/Salon Beauty Distribution (CRAOAEAB)

Keywords

• Professional hair care
• Salon products
• Hair color products
• Professional salon distribution
• Hair styling products

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Operations

Core offering

Kao Professional Salon Services GmbH is a Germany-registered entity whose name and registered domain (kpss-hair.com) indicate it provides professional hair care products for the salon industry. The firm-level input does not enumerate specific product lines or services beyond the implied professional hair care focus [Inferred from company name and domain].

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Wella Company: Standalone professional haircare company (Wella, Sebastian, Nioxin, Clairol Professional) competing for the same salon accounts in Germany with overlapping product categories including color, care and styling.
• Henkel - Schwarzkopf Professional: German-headquartered professional salon division of Henkel selling shampoos, treatments and color through the same DACH salon channel as KPSS; comparable product portfolio and target customer.
• John Paul Mitchell Systems: Independent US-based professional salon haircare brand with established presence in European salons; comparable product portfolio (shampoos, conditioners, color, styling) and salon channel.

Emerging players

• Amika: Independent professional haircare brand with growing distribution in salons and through selective retail; comparable product categories but smaller scale and emerging rather than incumbent presence.
• Olaplex: Professional bond-building haircare brand widely used in salons alongside color and treatment services; partial overlap with KPSS in the professional treatment category, though distributed primarily through selective retail and DTC.

Broad incumbents

• Coty Professional Beauty: Professional beauty division of Coty housing Wella Professionals (post-divestiture restructuring) and other salon brands; directly comparable in professional haircare distribution to German and European salons.
• L'Oréal Professionnel: Global professional salon division of L'Oréal with a full haircare, color and styling range distributed to German salons; comparable category, channel and premium positioning.
• Kao Corporation (Goldwell / KMS): Parent-level global CPG company that historically owns the Goldwell and KMS professional salon brands. KPSS GmbH is plausibly the German distribution arm of these brands, making the parent the most directly comparable reference point for products, channel and customer overlap.

Regional players

• Salon Services: Multi-brand professional salon product distributor in select European markets; comparable B2B distribution model to a GmbH-class entity, though concentrated in different geographies.
• SalonCentric: US-focused professional salon product distributor owned by L'Oréal; comparable in business model (multi-brand distribution to salons) but geographically focused on North America rather than DACH.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kao-professional-salon-services-gmbh

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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