Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. Acquires Certain Assets of Essential Salon Products, Inc., a Professional Beauty Products Distributor

DENTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SBH) is pleased to announce the purchase of certain assets of Essential Salon Products, Inc. by its subsidiary Beauty Systems Group, LLC (BSG). This transaction is expected to benefit the breadth of BSG's professional beauty product offerings in the northeast region of the U.S. for BSG's store network and full-service.

This transaction includes the acquisition of twelve Essential Salon stores and store team members, the addition of several direct sales consultants and exclusive distribution rights to prominent professional hair care brands. Essential Salon stores are located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine and New Hampshire.

"This acquisition is consistent with our strategy to gain additional exclusive distribution rights of prestige hair care brands in the U.S.," said John Golliher, president of the Beauty Systems Group. "The addition of Essential Salon's twelve stores and talented employees should further strengthen BSG's position in the Northeast."

About Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SBH) is an international specialty retailer and distributor of professional beauty supplies with revenues of $3.5 billion annually. Through the Sally Beauty Supply and Beauty Systems Group businesses, the Company sells and distributes through 4,500 stores, including approximately 200 franchised units, throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Chile, France, the Netherlands, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, 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, Joico, and Aquage which are targeted exclusively for professional and salon use and resale to their customers. For more information about Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc., please visit sallybeautyholdings.com.

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Additional factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from the events or results described in the forward-looking statements can be found in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2012, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Consequently, all forward-looking statements in this release are qualified by the factors, risks and uncertainties contained therein. We assume no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements.

    Source: Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.