Eurostil

Eurostil is a Spanish professional beauty brand based in Barcelona, founded in 1942 by Narcís Oriol Quintana [1]. It supplies tools and consumables to hairdressers, barbers and aestheticians rather than selling to consumers, with a catalogue built around combs, brushes, hair dryers, salon accessories and disposable supplies. Eurostil is the original, eponymous brand-line of Industrias Oriol 1942 S.L., a family-owned company that has since grown a portfolio of professional-beauty brands across three generations [2].

The brand remains active. Its parent company posted news as recently as April 2026, recapping the Cosmoprof Worldwide trade show in Bologna [3], and the founder, Narcís Oriol Quintana, died in June 2025 at the age of 98, with the third generation of the family now leading the business [4].

Eurostil traces its beginnings to a small Barcelona workshop in 1942. According to a trade-press account published after his death, Oriol Quintana handcrafted his first hair clips at the age of 15 and sold his bicycle to buy a manual press, going on to manufacture roughly 100 dozen clips a day by himself [4]. The company describes that hands-on start as the root of its outlook: a business that began, in its words, not with a plan but with "his own hands, a few tools and a clear idea" of making better products for beauty professionals.

Through the 1950s and 1960s the workshop scaled from handmade goods toward larger manufacturing. The founder is credited with developing aluminium combs and motorised systems, and in the 1960s the company moved into brush production, partnering with the German firm Zahoransky and registering several patents during that period [4]. A relocation within Barcelona followed in the 1970s, alongside a logo redesign said to be inspired by the curl of a hair roller.

International growth came with the second generation. The founder's sons, Narcís and Miquel, joined in the 1980s and began expanding into France and Italy; the 1990s brought new facilities on Calle Ciudad de Asunción, the creation of the sister brand Pollié, and expansion into Japan and Latin America, followed by an Argentine subsidiary in the 2000s. In 2017 the company marked its 75th anniversary, and by the mid-2020s it described itself as having more than 84 years of experience.

Eurostil operates as part of Industrias Oriol 1942 S.L., which the company presents as the industrial and strategic engine behind a group of professional-beauty brands. Alongside Eurostil, that portfolio includes Ragnar, Pollié, Stageline, Tassel, Dousse, Kiritsu and Captain Cook [2]. The business is described as independent and family-owned across three generations; no acquisition history is recorded for the brand. Following the death of founder Narcís Oriol Quintana in June 2025, leadership passed to the third generation [4].

Eurostil positions itself around durability and function rather than novelty. The company states the brand "is not based on trends" but "on what works," and frames its products with the phrase "no para impresionar, sino para rendir" — not to impress, but to perform. It organises this outlook around three named principles: Experiencia (experience built through hands-on work), Sistemático (products designed as interconnected systems) and Confianza (tools meant to stay reliable through daily professional use). The brand-line carries the tagline "Esencial por diseño. Fiable en el tiempo" (Essential by design. Reliable over time).

The intended audience is professional: hairdressers, barbers and aestheticians who need implements and disposable supplies, served through a business-to-business model rather than consumer retail. Catalogue figures vary by scope — the parent company cites more than 5,000 references across its whole portfolio, while the Eurostil brand-line itself is described as carrying over 1,500 professional products [1].

Eurostil's range spans hairdressing, barbering and aesthetics. It covers colouring and treatment accessories, professional combs and brushes, clips and pins, styling equipment such as hair dryers and flat irons, salon consumables including capes and paper products, and training equipment such as mannequin heads. Two product families are singled out by the company: the Carbon Combs Series, lightweight antistatic combs the brand describes as "practically unbreakable" and present in thousands of salons, and ION·X, a line of hair dryers built for sustained professional use.

Manufacturing is based in Barcelona. A 2017 anniversary feature described a facility of more than 7,000 square metres housing in-house departments for plastic injection, rubber and silicone moulding, metal stamping, brush manufacturing and design and research.

Eurostil and its parent company have been covered chiefly by Spanish trade publications. Industry titles reported on the company's 70th and 75th anniversaries in 2012 and 2017, and Beautymarket published an obituary tribute to the founder in 2025 detailing the company's history. No Wikipedia entry exists for the brand, and coverage outside Spanish professional-beauty media is limited, which is consistent with its business-to-business focus.

Eurostil is an active brand. Its parent company maintained a regular news presence into 2026, including an April 2026 recap of the Cosmoprof Bologna trade fair and earlier 2026 posts announcing the group's attendance there [3]. The company describes itself as distributing in 75 or more countries [2]; figures reported elsewhere differ by year, with a 2025 trade account citing 71 countries and the 2017 anniversary feature putting the figure at more than 80 [4]. The founder's death in June 2025 marked a generational transition, with the family's third generation now leading.