1964First Sally store opens in New Orleans. |
1969Alberto-Culver acquires Sally Beauty. |
1972Mike Renzulli, a former Philadelphia pharmacist, is employed at Alberto-Culver as a brand manager. Leonard Lavin asks Renzulli to move to New Orleans to head up Sally Beauty, a small cash-and-carry beauty supply store. |
1978Sally opens its 25th store. |
1982Sally headquarters moves to Denton, Texas. Between new openings and acquisitions, number of stores leaps to 119. |
1983Salon equipment division, Sally Quickship, debuts. |
1985Sally acquires the 39 stores of Victory Beauty Systems, a professionals-only distributor, which would later become Beauty Systems Group. |
1987Sally acquires the 30 Ogee beauty stores in the U.K., marking its first international venture. At home, Sally celebrates the opening of its 500th store and more than $130 million in sales and moves into its Support Center at 3900 Morse Street in Denton. |
1991Renzulli launches the Sally canister fund-raising campaign to support breast cancer research at the City of Hope. Sally reaches 1,000-store milestone. |
1992City of Hope names Renzulli as the recipient of the “Spirit of Life” award, establishes the Michael H. Renzulli Fellowship in Breast Cancer Research. Renzulli raises more than $400,000 in a single night during a gala dinner and in the next few years raises more than a million dollars for the cause. |
1993Sally reaches $500 million in sales. |
19941,200 Sally stores. Launches “CelebHead” national survey on best star hairstyles and consumer beauty trends. Sally Beauty canisters raise $12,000 for the City of Hope and $12,000 for Cosmetology Advancement Foundation beauty school scholarships. Sally Beauty buys Bailey’s Professional Beauty, adding 16 stores to Victory Beauty Systems and 5 stores to Sally Beauty. |
1995Sally Beauty expands to Japan. |
1996Reaching the 1,500-store mark, Sally expands to Germany. New Sally stores are opening at the rate of three a day. Launches SallyCares, an umbrella program supporting breast cancer research at the City of Hope, CAF scholarships and the Shelter Program, an effort to help victims of domestic abuse rebuild their confidence and their lives. |
1996R.M. Barnum Beauty Supply is purchased and combined with Victory Beauty Supply to create Beauty Systems Group, a professionals-only division. Miller & Gould Beauty Supply and F.H. Loeffler are then added to BSG. |
1998Sally reaches both $1 billion in sales and 1800 stores. |
1998Beauty Systems Group acquires 12 Beautician’s Supply Limited stores in the Canadian market. |
1999Beauty Systems Group acquires 34 full-service Heil Beauty Supply stores. |
2000Sally Beauty magazine launches. |
2000Beauty Systems Group acquires 32 full-service Davidson Beauty Supply Stores. |
2001The debut of www.sallybeauty.com, a website featuring information and education for Sally’s three customers: the working professional, the beauty school student and the consumer. 2,300 Sally stores opened, including new locations in Mexico. |
2001Beauty Systems Group purchases Armstrong McCall, which franchises 130 stores. |
2002The inauguration of the Sally Cup, an award and $10,000 prize given to the highest scorer in the tryouts for the U.S. Ladies Hairdressing team, to encourage excellence in competition and the support for careers in cosmetology. |
2003Breaks ground for a new 200,000-sq-ft Worldwide Support Center in Denton, Texas. Donations for scholarships in the merchandising and journalism departments of University of North Texas and grants to Texas Woman’s University Foundation reach $1 million. |
2003Beauty Systems Group acquires 123 West Coast Beauty stores. |
2004Halle Berry wins Best Female Celebrity Hair in the Sally CelebHead consumer poll for the third year in a row. 2,400 stores, $1.4 billion in sales and counting. |
2004Beauty Systems Group acquires 93 CosmoProf stores. |
2005The largest distributor of beauty products in the world, Sally Beauty moves into its new Denton headquarters. Each company store stocks thousands of well-known and hard-to-find products. Sally continues its ongoing support of breast cancer research at City of Hope and presented a check for $100,000 at the annual gala event in Las Vegas in 2005 bringing the total Sally Beauty has raised to more than 3 million. Gary Winterhalter is promoted to President of Sally Beauty Company from President of Sally Beauty North America in May of 2005. |
2006With 825 stores covering most of the United States and Canada, Beauty Systems Group represents some of the industry’s most important professional salon brands including Matrix, Redken, Paul Mitchell, L’Oréal Professional, Graham Webb, American Crew, Repêchage, Rusk, OPI and Creative Nail Design, to name just a few. |
2006November 16, 2006 Gary Winterhalter is named President and CEO of Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. becomes a freestanding company traded on the NYSE under the symbol SBH. President and CEO Gary Winterhalter rings the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Photo courtesy of New York Stock Exchange |