Wife-and-husband team hot up beauty industry with hairdryer

Katie Jane Goldin and Barry Scanlon, co-founders of Lanai

Katie Jane Goldin and Barry Scallan are hoping their LanaiBlo hairdryer will make the cut in the US. The wife-and-husband team have sold tens of thousands of the hairdryers over just two years in Ireland and Britain. Now they are developing a US unit and hope to launch in that market by 2020.

In the meantime, they are introducing new products to the market here in February, including shampoo and conditioner that will ...