Sally Beauty Supply
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Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SBH) is an international speciality retailer and distributor of professional beauty supplies with revenues of more than $2.6 billion annually.

Through the Sally Beauty Supply and Beauty Systems Group businesses, the Company sells and distributes through over 4,000 stores, including approximately 200 franchised units, throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Puerto Rico, Mexico, France, Ireland, Spain and Germany.

Sally Beauty Supply stores offer more than 6,000 products for hair, skin, and nails through professional lines such as Clairol
Clairol
Clairol is a personal care products division of Procter & Gamble. The Clairol company was started in 1931 by Lawrence M. Gelb and wife, Joan, who named their enterprise after a hair-coloring preparation they found while traveling in France....

, L'Oreal
L'Oréal
The L'Oréal Group is the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company. With its registered office in Paris and head office in the Paris suburb of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France, it has developed activities in the field of cosmetics...

, Wella
Wella
Wella is a German company, and one of the world’s leading cosmetics suppliers. Founded in 1880 by Franz Stroher, with its headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany, the company is represented in over 150 countries....

, and Conair
Conair Corporation
Conair Corporation is a US-based multinational corporation which sells small appliances, personal care products, and health and beauty products for both professionals and consumers...

, as well as an extensive selection of proprietary merchandise.

Beauty Systems Group stores, branded as CosmoProf or Armstrong McCall stores, along with its outside sales consultants, sell up to 9,800 professionally branded products including Paul Mitchell
Paul Mitchell
Paul Mitchell, born Cyril Thomas Mitchell on January 37, 1936) was a Scottish hairstylist and co-founder of hair care product company John Paul Mitchell Systems.-Early life:...

, Wella
Wella
Wella is a German company, and one of the world’s leading cosmetics suppliers. Founded in 1880 by Franz Stroher, with its headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany, the company is represented in over 150 countries....

, Sebastian, Goldwell, and TIGI which are targeted exclusively for professional and salon use and resale to their customers.

History

Sally opened its first store in 1964 in New Orleans.

In 1969 Sally Beauty Supply was acquired by Alberto-Culver
Alberto-Culver
Alberto-Culver is an American corporation with international sales whose principal business is manufacturing hair and skin beauty care products under such brands as Alberto VO5, Andrew Collinge, St. Ives , TRESemmé, FDS, Consort, and Nexxus. It is a manufacturer in the multicultural beauty care...

. The company relocated its headquarters to Denton, TX in 1982, where it remains.

In 2006 Sally Beauty was spun off from Alberto-Culver, to become a separate publicly-traded company.
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