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Sally Beauty Company

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.
Public (spin-off)
Traded as SBH
S&P 400 Component
Industry Beauty
Founded 1964 (spin-off from Alberto-Culver)
Headquarters Denton, Texas
Key people
Chris Brickman (CEO)
Products Beauty products
Website www.sallybeautyholdings.com

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SBH) is an American international speciality retailer and distributor of professional beauty supplies with revenues of more than US$2,600,000,000 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, L'Oreal, Wella, and Conair, 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, Wella, Sebastian, Goldwell, and TIGI which are targeted exclusively for professional and salon use and resale to their customers.

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. opened its first store in New Orleans in 1964. Sally Beauty Company was started by C. Ray Farber in New Orleans and operated its flagship store on Magazine Street before selling out to Alberto-Culver. I worked as Mr. Farber's secretary for several years. He was a crafty businessman, originally from New York and had three sons and a daughter, Sally, therefore, Sally Beauty Company.

Gary Winterhalter became the company's CEO in 2013. Winterhalter will step down from the CEO role at the end of the first quarter, 2015 and take the role of executive chairman, which he will hold through the beginning of 2018. Coincident with Winterhalter's transition, Christian Brickman will take the CEO role. Effective June 2, 2014, Brickman was the company's President and COO.


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