About Top Hair

Top Hair

Top Hair, published as TOP HAIR International, is the hairdressing trade magazine of the Top Hair International GmbH, the publishing house founded in 2002 that belongs to the Intermedia Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH, a subsidiary of the Medien Union, the Ludwigshafen media group that owns the 2002-founded Zeitschriftenverlag. The magazine serves the professional hairdressing trade with know-how, trends, hair fashion, hair tutorials, hair care, and hair education, the Knowhow Trends the trade press documents for the Friseurhandwerk. Since 2005, the publisher has co-organized the TOP HAIR International Trend and Fashion Days, the hairdressing trade fair held as a parallel event to Beauty Düsseldorf and renamed Top Hair Düsseldorf – Die Messe in 2018, the Friseurhandwerk-Fachmesse the Wikipedia article describes with its seit 2005 history.

Overview

The Top Hair International GmbH's address, Medienplatz 1 in Gaggenau, places the publishing house in the Baden town near Baden-Baden, while the trade fair it co-organizes takes place in Düsseldorf, the North Rhine-Westphalia capital that hosts Beauty Düsseldorf and the Messe Düsseldorf exhibition grounds. The company profile's alternative address entry, DIREKT 2 in Düsseldorf, reflects the fair's operational footprint in the trade fair city.

The magazine's competitive set, in the company profile's terms, reads as a roll call of the professional hair cosmetics industry: Wella India Haircosmetics, L'Oréal Professionnel Paris, Schwarzkopf Professionals, Redken 5th Avenue, Joico, Matrix Professional Hair, John Paul Mitchell Systems, Goldwell, TIGI International, and Keune Haircosmetics, with some thirty-three more competitors named. These are the brands whose products, techniques, and artists fill the magazine's pages and the fair's halls.

The 2002 founding of the Zeitschriftenverlag makes TOP HAIR International a comparatively young publishing house in the German trade press, built around a single specialist title and its event business rather than a broad magazine portfolio. The Medien Union ownership, through the Intermedia Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH, connects the hairdressing title to one of Germany's regional media groups.

TOP HAIR International is the Friseur-Fachzeitschrift: the trade magazine for the hairdressing craft, the Fachzeitschrift the 2002-founded Verlag herausgibt for the professional hairdressers. Its editorial program covers hairdressing techniques, hair styling, hair fashion, hair trends, hair products, hair care, hair education, and salon business, with the keywords the company profile lists ranging from professional hair, hairdressing techniques, and hairstylist to cosmetics, beauty, editorial, publishing, and trade publications.

The magazine's brand extends to the trade fair: the TOP HAIR International Trend and Fashion Days, organized since 2005 by Messe Düsseldorf, the Top Hair GmbH, and the Top Hair International GmbH publishing house, run as an annual parallel event on the second and third days of the three-day Beauty Düsseldorf cosmetics trade fair, the jährliche Parallelveranstaltung the article documents for the Fachbesucher. The 2022 edition, held May 7 to 8, drew 19,000 trade visitors and around 350 exhibitors and brands in three halls, the Fachbesucher the article counts for the 2022 Messe.

History

The Top Hair International GmbH publishing house was founded in 2002, based at Medienplatz 1 in Gaggenau, the Zeitschriftenverlag the Wikipedia article dates to the 2002 founding. It belongs to the Intermedia Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH, which is a subsidiary of the Medien Union, the Ludwigshafen media group and the Tochtergesellschaft the article names for the Intermedia.

Since 2005, the publisher has co-organized the TOP HAIR International Trend and Fashion Days as a parallel event to Beauty Düsseldorf, the Kosmetik-Fachmesse the article pairs it with for the Friseurhandwerk. In 2018, the fair was renamed Top Hair Düsseldorf – Die Messe, the seit 2018 name the article records for the Trend and Fashion Days. The fair's final reports document the international artists and the trade visitors' demand for coherence and change, with the 2024 report quoting the Redken artist Sean Godard's first visit to Germany, the Instagram hairdresser Christoph Filser's place to be, Patrick Cameron's tenth TOP HAIR anniversary as the God of Updo, and the note for the March 29 to 30, 2025 edition.

Coverage and Content

The fair's visitor profile is the Fachbesucher: the trade visitor. The 2022 edition's 19,000 trade visitors and around 350 exhibitors and brands in three halls describe a concentrated professional audience, the hairdressers and salon owners who come to Düsseldorf for the shows, the workshops, and the product presentations. The parallel scheduling with Beauty Düsseldorf's second and third days lets the hairdressing trade share the exhibition grounds with the cosmetics trade.

The artists are the fair's editorial engine. The 2024 final report's voices include the New York Redken artist Sean Godard, on his first visit to Germany, learning that this is the best and the biggest event in the country, the place to get to know all the new trends, techniques, and products and to return to the salon up to date and at the cutting edge. The report also carries the Instagram hairdresser Christoph Filser, the hairdressing entrepreneur for whom TOP HAIR is the place to be, and the New Zealand updo artist Patrick Cameron, the God of Updo, celebrating his tenth TOP HAIR anniversary.

The magazine's editorial stance, in the trade press's terms, is Knowhow Trends: the practical knowledge and the fashion trends that the professional hairdresser needs behind the chair. The September 2012 issue's downloadable PDF, with its Toolbox, Drucken, PDF, Weiterempfehlen, RSS, and Abonnieren functions, shows a magazine that already treated its digital edition as a working tool for the trade.

TOP HAIR International's editorial program is the professional hairdressing trade: know-how, trends, hair fashion, hair tutorials, hair care, hair education, and the industry's products and techniques, the Knowhow Trends the September 2012 issue carried for the Friseurhandwerk. The magazine's September 2012 issue, documented in the trade press with its downloadable PDF and the Toolbox, carried the Knowhow Trends that define its editorial mix for the professional hairdressers.

The trade fair's program extends the magazine's coverage: the shows, workshops, and exhibitors present the latest trends, techniques, and products, with the artists' encounters of creativity that the fair's reports celebrate as the place to get further training and the encounter of creativity. The fair is the must-go place for all those wanting to learn the latest techniques, in the reports' words, the best and biggest event in Germany for the New York artist and the cutting edge for the salon.

Organization and Ownership

TOP HAIR International is published by the Top Hair International GmbH, based at Medienplatz 1 in Gaggenau, Germany, the publishing company the profile lists with its Medienplatz 1 address. The company belongs to the Intermedia Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH, a subsidiary of the Medien Union, the ownership the Wikipedia article documents for the 2002-founded Verlag. The company profile lists 24 employees and the book and periodical publishing industry, the Book and Periodical Publishing the RocketReach profile classifies with its hairdressing keywords.

The trade fair is organized by Messe Düsseldorf, the Top Hair GmbH, and the Top Hair International GmbH, the Veranstalter the article names for the annual fair. The press contacts for TOP HAIR International include Yvonne Manleitner, Dr. Rebecca Kandler, and Caroline Herbertz, the Press Contact TOP HAIR International the 2024 final report lists with their Düsseldorf and Gaggenau phones. Current editor-in-chief details for the magazine are not publicly confirmed in the sources reviewed; the company's public face in the sources is the trade fair's press contacts and the Messe Düsseldorf team.

Digital Presence

Tophair.de is the magazine's digital home, with the website the company profile lists for the publishing company and its Friseur-Fachzeitschrift. The fair's final reports are published as PDFs by Messe Düsseldorf, documenting the trade visitors, exhibitors, and artists, the finalreport the 2024 edition's PDF carries with its Logo.

Dedicated apps or podcasts for the TOP HAIR International brand are not detailed in the sources reviewed; the brand's digital presence rests on its website, the fair's reports, and the trade press that documents its issues, events, Knowhow Trends, and downloadable PDFs.