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When Eric Haynes first started working in tanning, the U.S. \u201ctanning industry\u201d didn\u2019t really even exist yet. While a few businesses specializing in tanning were scattered across the country at that point, Eric, like most other Americans, didn\u2019t know what a tanning bed was until he was presented with the job opportunity.<\/p>\n

In 1982, after the current Tanning Supplies Unlimited Vice President of Sales graduated college, he started working on the manufacturing floor at Sun Industries, one of the earliest U.S. manufacturers in Jonesboro, Arkansas. A year later, when he moved into sales, the company sold around 500 units. At that point, Eric probably couldn\u2019t have imagined that he\u2019d still be working in tanning 40 years later, and nobody could have possibly envisioned the equipment technology and business models seen in today\u2019s tanning industry.<\/p>\n

Luckily for Eric, his employer, and other early tanning entrepreneurs, it didn\u2019t take long for indoor tanning to experience a meteoric rise.<\/p>\n

By 1985, Sun Industries\u2019 sales had skyrocketed to 15,0000 units. The explosion was still primarily based on sales of a unit or two to beauty salons and fitness centers. But, from there, the free market ran its course in rapid fashion. As people began lining up outside of other establishments to use their tanning equipment, many took note of the business opportunity, and standalone tanning salons began to pop up in every community around the country. In 1987, indoor tanning was the fastest growing industry in the country, according to Yellow Pages<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople saw what was happening at the beauty salons and said we can do nothing but tanning. People didn\u2019t have to wait as long at tanning salons offering ten units. A beauty salon may have had one to three units, and there was a line. Early tanning salons in mass didn\u2019t start coming up until 1987,\u201d Haynes says.<\/p>\n

At that point, tanning equipment was already evolving in the U.S., but updates were minimal and mostly aesthetic. Amazingly enough, the technology and appearance of tanning equipment in the late \u201880s closely resembled the majority of the equipment in salons into the early 2000s. Even today, equipment from that era is still in operation in salons, and much of the base-level equipment around today is similar in appearance and function.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the entire article in the latest issue of Smart Tan Magazine online.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Eric Haynes first started working in tanning, the U.S. \u201ctanning industry\u201d didn\u2019t really even exist yet. While a few businesses specializing in tanning were scattered across the country at that point, Eric, like most other Americans, didn\u2019t know what a tanning bed was until he was presented with the job opportunity. In 1982, after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Tanning Industry Comes of Age - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When Eric Haynes first started working in tanning, the U.S. \u201ctanning industry\u201d didn\u2019t really even exist yet. 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The explosion was still primarily based on sales of a unit or two to beauty salons and fitness centers. But, from there, the free market ran its course in rapid fashion. As people began lining up outside of other establishments to use their tanning equipment, many took note of the business opportunity, and standalone tanning salons began to pop up in every community around the country. In 1987, indoor tanning was the fastest growing industry in the country, according to Yellow Pages. \u201cPeople saw what was happening at the beauty salons and said we can do nothing but tanning. People didn\u2019t have to wait as long at tanning salons offering ten units. A beauty salon may have had one to three units, and there was a line. Early tanning salons in mass didn\u2019t start coming up until 1987,\u201d Haynes says. At that point, tanning equipment was already evolving in the U.S., but updates were minimal and mostly aesthetic. Amazingly enough, the technology and appearance of tanning equipment in the late \u201880s closely resembled the majority of the equipment in salons into the early 2000s. Even today, equipment from that era is still in operation in salons, and much of the base-level equipment around today is similar in appearance and function. 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As people began lining up outside of other establishments to use their tanning equipment, many took note of the business opportunity, and standalone tanning salons began to pop up in every community around the country. In 1987, indoor tanning was the fastest growing industry in the country, according to Yellow Pages. \u201cPeople saw what was happening at the beauty salons and said we can do nothing but tanning. People didn\u2019t have to wait as long at tanning salons offering ten units. A beauty salon may have had one to three units, and there was a line. Early tanning salons in mass didn\u2019t start coming up until 1987,\u201d Haynes says. At that point, tanning equipment was already evolving in the U.S., but updates were minimal and mostly aesthetic. Amazingly enough, the technology and appearance of tanning equipment in the late \u201880s closely resembled the majority of the equipment in salons into the early 2000s. Even today, equipment from that era is still in operation in salons, and much of the base-level equipment around today is similar in appearance and function. 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The explosion was still primarily based on sales of a unit or two to beauty salons and fitness centers. But, from there, the free market ran its course in rapid fashion. As people began lining up outside of other establishments to use their tanning equipment, many took note of the business opportunity, and standalone tanning salons began to pop up in every community around the country. In 1987, indoor tanning was the fastest growing industry in the country, according to Yellow Pages. \u201cPeople saw what was happening at the beauty salons and said we can do nothing but tanning. People didn\u2019t have to wait as long at tanning salons offering ten units. A beauty salon may have had one to three units, and there was a line. Early tanning salons in mass didn\u2019t start coming up until 1987,\u201d Haynes says. At that point, tanning equipment was already evolving in the U.S., but updates were minimal and mostly aesthetic. Amazingly enough, the technology and appearance of tanning equipment in the late \u201880s closely resembled the majority of the equipment in salons into the early 2000s. Even today, equipment from that era is still in operation in salons, and much of the base-level equipment around today is similar in appearance and function. 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