retail founded 1999 founder thea green mt carney headquarters london england area served united kingdom united states france middle east singapore hong kong key people thea green revenue 21.7 m number of employees 420 website www.nailsinc.com nails inc. is a london england based nail bar chain with 60 outlets across the united kingdom . 1 contents 1 thea green 2 history 3 present 4 awards 5 references 6 external links thea green edit thea green was born and brought up in hoylake on the wirral peninsula near liverpool . 2 her father was a company director of littlewoods and her mother a housewife . she completed a degree in public relations and journalism at the london college of fashion . 3 while studying she assisted on the fashion desk at the daily mail newspaper and then tatler magazine . joining tatler as fashion co oordinator on graduation she became fashion editor aged 24 . 4 married with three children under the age of seven green lives in fulham 5 green was appointed member of the order of the british empire mbe in the 2011 birthday honours for services to the beauty industry . 6 history edit green noticed on travelling to new york city the number of nail bars that were easily available . working on a business plan with business partner mt carney they raised 200 000 through investors and launched their first store in 1999 in south molton street in the west end of london . 5 after opening the first three stores in london as the business expanded carney left the business with her family for the united states . 7 in 2000 nails inc opened department store concessions . in 2003 the company launched their training academy for beauty therapists in london . in 2005 they launched the luxury champagne nail bar . 7 present edit nails inc. is the uk s largest nail bar chain serving on average 10 000 customers per week through 60 locations . the company has concessions within key retailers including harvey nichols selfridges fenwick house of fraser 8 and debenhams . 9 the company now has stores in the uk us france middle east singapore and hong kong . 10 11 the company has also developed get lashed a diffusion brand for false eyelashes . 7 nails inc. is part of the paint shop located in selfridges london . 12 a unique concept developed by nails inc. the paint shop offers customers nail art designs bespoke speedy services and thousands of nail polishes . 13 in november 2012 nails inc. opened a nail bar in the harvey nichols beauty bazaar a concept store located in the liverpool one shopping centre in the centre of liverpool . 14 awards edit 2011 awarded mbe member of the order of the british empire 15 2011 ernst and young entrepreneur of the year 16 2011 first women awards retail & consumer winner 17 2010 entrepreneurial woman of the future award 5 2002 cew achiever award 18 references edit the daily telegraph she has an older brother and a younger sister hoylake born thea green wins prestigious entrepreneur award . wirral globe . 10 november 2010 . retrieved 2010 11 18 . telegraph fashion new york trip inspired idea for nail bars . the times . 15 october 2006 . retrieved 2010 11 18 . a b c running a beauty empire i ve got it nailed how a busy mother of three became a manicure multi millonaire . london daily mail . 19 november 2010 . retrieved 2010 11 19 . the london gazette supplement no. 59808 . p. 16 . 11 june 2011 . a b c thea green nailing down success . coutts . august 2009 . retrieved 2010 11 19 . nails inc house of fraser . house of fraser . retrieved 2010 11 19 . nails inc debenhams . debenhams . retrieved 2010 11 19 . the sunday times running a beauty empire i ve got it nailed how a busy mother of three became a manicure multi millonaire . daily mail . london . amitee blogazine stylist grazia daily talk business magazine london loves business real business cew uk external links edit nails inc. website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nails inc. & oldid 719261805 categories retail companies established in 1999companies based in the city of westminsternail careretail companies of the united kingdomcosmetics companies of the united kingdombritish brandshidden categories use dmy dates from december 2011use british english from december 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 may 2016 at 16 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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