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Global cosmetic brand target list · 735
Third-party view of each brand: monthly site visits and ranks, parent and listing, public revenue and funding, channels and price tier, in-house vs contract manufacturing (with evidence), public corporate contacts and leaders, analyst-style read and partnership angles.
Public facts only: revenue with year and source, never estimated; traffic from Similarweb public pages (month shown); manufacturing model backed by official or press wording. Enrichment done for 735 brands, 465 with Similarweb monthly visits; the rest are small sites whose figure Similarweb does not show, never estimated. Manufacturing model only from official sites, Wikipedia or legally required manufacturer disclosures; otherwise marked not disclosed.
South Africa · Cape Town, South Africa · Beauty salon franchise (Sorbet, Sorbet Nailbar, Sorbet Hairbar, Sorbet MAN, Candi&Co) plus an exclusive Sorbet-branded retail product range
Sorbet Site ↗
- 80.5KMonthly visits · 2026-08
- #434,544Global rank
- #18 (Beauty and Cosmetics, South Africa)Category rank
- 23.08%Bounce
- 2.47Pages/visit
- 00:01:00Duration
Top regions:South Africa 95.39% · United States 4.61% · Top source:Organic Search 64.17%
South Africa's largest beauty-salon franchise chain (200+ locations, ~3.6 million treatments/year as of 2025) now owned by retail group Clicks, selling an exclusive Sorbet-branded product range through Clicks and Sorbet stores nationwide.
- Parent
- Clicks Group Limited (bought Sorbet Holdings from Old Mutual Private Equity for R105 million, announced November 2022) · Sorbet itself is a private subsidiary brand; parent Clicks Group Limited is listed on the JSE (ticker: CLS) · Founded 2005, by Ian Fuhr (Wikipedia)
- Revenue
- Not disclosed at Sorbet-brand level; reported only within Clicks Group's consolidated results. Scale metric: ~3.6 million beauty treatments performed per year as of 2025 (Wikipedia)
- Funding
- Owned by Clicks Group, which took a 25% stake in 2015 and acquired full ownership in November 2022 for R105 million from Old Mutual Private Equity (Wikipedia).
- Channels
- 200+ franchise salons in South Africa (Sorbet, Sorbet Nailbar, Sorbet Hairbar, Sorbet MAN) · in-salon retail of third-party brands
- Manufacturing
- Contract manufacturing · Made in South Africa — Sorbet is mainly a 200+ store franchise salon chain retailing 'products from numerous international personal care brands'; competition-authority approval of Clicks' 2022 buyout required 'increasing local manufacturing of Sorbet-branded goods,' implying prior reliance on external/imported contract manufacturing for its own-label line (Wikipedia: Sorbet Group). Direct site access was Cloudflare-blocked this session.
- Contact
- Corporate/franchise inquiries route through sorbet.co.za (inaccessible this session behind a Cloudflare check) or parent Clicks Group Limited's investor/corporate channels
- Leaders
- Ian Fuhr, Founder (left the company in February 2019) — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbet_(South_Africa)
- Analyst view
- Sorbet is a South African beauty/grooming salon franchise, fully owned by retailer Clicks since a 2022 buyout, operating 200+ locations (Sorbet, Sorbet Nailbar, Sorbet Hairbar, Sorbet MAN) that combine services with retail of third-party personal-care brands. Merger approval reportedly required more local manufacturing of Sorbet-branded goods, implying past reliance on imported/contract supply. Traffic is almost entirely domestic, reflecting a single-market franchise footprint.
- Partnership angles
- Competition-authority conditions pushing more local manufacturing of Sorbet-branded goods signal active interest in South African contract-manufacturing capacity · Franchise/salon model retailing third-party brands alongside its own line means new suppliers must fit both professional-use and retail-shelf formats · Clicks Group ownership means sourcing may involve group-level as well as brand-level procurement.