Kyle Ross and Ryan Chighton Award-winning Aberdeen barber Sovereign Grooming has secured a six-figure funding package to open new salons in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The business – the home of Kyle Ross, winner of Best Barber UK – is being backed by a group of investors led by MB Martin & Partners. With the funding, Sovereign has agreed a 10-year lease on a 1,118sq ft unit within Edinburgh’s New Waverley development, which will open in January. A third salon in Glasgow s city centre will follow later in spring, with a total of 20 new jobs created across the two sites. Mr Ross launched Sovereign alongside marketing expert Ryan Crighton and has been trading from Aberdeen’s Union Street since 2016. He has been named among the UK’s elite barbers by GQ Magazine.