Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.sallybeautyholdings.com
Employees: 22,410
Employee growth: 6.0%

Sally Beauty Holdings (SBH) is now a public company after untangling itself from former parent Alberto-Culver in 2006. Formerly Sally Beauty Co., the firm is one of the US's largest retailers and distributors of professional beauty supplies. More than 3,700 Sally Beauty Supply stores sell some 8,000 hair, skin, and nail products in 10 countries, including Canada, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the UK, and the US. Sally Beauty also sells its products online. SBH's Beauty Systems Group (BSG) employs more than 1,100 sales consultants and operates about 940 CosmoProf and Armstrong McCall stores that sell products only to beauty professionals. Sally Beauty Supply was founded in New Orleans in 1964.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending September, 2009:
Sales: $2,636.6M
One year growth: (0.4%)
Net income: $99.1M
Income growth: 27.8%

Officers:
Chairman: James G. Berges
President, CEO, and Director: Gary G. Winterhalter
SVP and CFO: Mark J. Flaherty

Competitors:
CVS Caremark
Walgreen
Wal-Mart