This annual report, as well as information included in, or incorporated by reference from, future filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) and information contained in written material, press releases and oral statements issued by or on behalf of the Company contains or may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements concerning anticipated future events and expectations that are not historical facts. These forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements in this document reflect management's best judgment at the time they are made, but all such statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the statements herein. Such forward-looking statements are often identified herein by use of words including, but not limited to, "may," "believe," "project," "forecast," "expect," "estimate," "anticipate," and "plan." In addition, the following factors could affect the Company's actual results and cause such results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements. These factors include a potential material adverse impact on our business and results of operations as a result of the uncertain duration and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the health and risk appetite of our stylists, customers and employees to return to the salon environment; the continued ability of the Company to implement its strategy, priorities and initiatives;initiatives including the re-engineering of our corporate and field infrastructure; our new company-owned back office management system may not yield the intended results on timing and amounts due to COVID-19, efforts by our current third-party back office management system vendor to make it difficult for our franchisees to convert to our new company-owned system, and the pending litigation with that third-party vendor; the impact of COVID-19 on our key suppliers; the ability to address rent obligations incurred during the government-mandated hibernation of our salons related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ability to obtain long-term rent concessions; the ability to operate or sell the salons transferred back from TBG; the outcome of the review by the administrator in TBG's insolvency proceedings in the United Kingdom; compliance with credit facility covenants and access to the existing revolving credit facility; our and our franchisee'sfranchisees' ability to attract, train and retain talented stylists; financial performance of our franchisees; accelerationsuccess of the sale of salons to franchisees; if our capital investments in improving technology do not achieve appropriate returns; our ability to manage cyber threats and protect the security of potentially sensitive information about our guests, employees, vendors or Company information; The Beautiful Group's ability to operate its salons successfully, as well as maintain adequate working capital; the ability of the Company to maintain a satisfactory relationship with Walmart; the impact of recent actions by Walmart; marketing efforts to drive traffic;traffic to our franchisees' salons; changes in regulatory and statutory laws including increases in minimum wages; our ability to maintain and enhance the value of our brands; premature termination of agreements with our franchisees; reliance on information technology systems; reliance on external vendors; consumer shopping trends and changes in manufacturer distribution channels; competition within the personal hair care industry; continued ability to compete in our business markets; the continued ability to maintain an effective system of internal controls over financial reporting; changes in tax exposure; changes in healthcare; changes in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates; failure to standardize operating processes across brands; financial performance of Empire Education Group; the continued ability of the Company to implement cost reduction initiatives; compliance with debt covenants; changes in economic conditions; changes in consumer tastes and fashion trends; failure at our distribution centers; exposure to uninsured or unidentified risks; reliance on our management team and other key personnel or other factors not listed above. Additional information concerning potential factors that could affect future financial results is set forth under Item 1A of this Form 10-K. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. However, your attention is directed to any further disclosures made in our subsequent annual and periodic reports filed or furnished with the SEC on Forms 10-Q and 8-K and Proxy Statements on Schedule 14A.

Regis Corporation franchises, owns and operates technology-enabled hairstyling and hair care salons. The Company is listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "RGS." Unless the context otherwise provides, when we refer to the "Company," "we," "our," or "us," we are referring to Regis Corporation, the Registrant, together with its subsidiaries.

As of June 30, 2019,2020, the Company franchised, owned or held ownership interests in 7,1456,923 locations worldwide. The Company's locations consist of 3,9515,209 franchised salons, 3,1081,632 company-owned salons, and 8682 locations in which we maintain a non-controlling ownership interest of less than 100%.100 percent. Each of the Company's salon concepts generally offer similar salon products and services.

The hair salon market is highly fragmented, with the vast majority of locations independently-owned and operated. However, the influence of salon chains, both franchised and company-owned, continues to grow within this market. Management believes salon chains will continue to have significant influence on this market and will continue to increase their presence.

At the individual salon level, barriers to entry are low; however, barriers exist for chains to expand nationally due to the need to establish systems and infrastructure, to recruit franchisees, experienced field and salon management and stylists, and to lease quality sites. The principal factors of competition in the hair care category are quality and consistency of the guest experience, convenience, location and price. The Company continually strives to improve its performance in each of these areas and to create additional points of brand differentiation versus the competition.

The Company is focused on maximizing shareholder value. In order to successfully maximize shareholder value, we place a balanced approach on our guests, franchisees, employees and shareholders. After carefully considering potential options to enhance shareholder value and based on the success of our vendition strategy in 2019, we reached a decision in August 2019 to fully transition our company-owned salons to a franchise platform.platform and continued these efforts in fiscal year 2020. This strategic initiative is intended to facilitate an ongoing multi-year transformation to a capital-light business that we believe will be better positioned for sustainable growth. We believe the transformation of our salon platform coupled with the investments we are making in technology, marketing and advertising, merchandise and franchisor capabilities will be in the best long-term interests of our shareholders.

Our Company depends on its stylists to help deliver great guest experiences.

The majority of existing SmartStyle and Cost Cutters franchise agreements for salons located in Walmart Supercenters. Service revenues represent approximately 71% of total company-owned SmartStyle revenues.

The majority of existing Cost Cutters franchise agreements have a 15-year term with a 15-year option to renew (at the option of the franchisee), while the majority of First Choice Haircutters franchise agreements have a ten year term with a five year option to renew. The majority of Magicuts franchise agreements have a term equal to the greater of five years or the current initial term of the lease agreement with an option to renew for two additional five-year periods. The current franchise agreement is site specific. Franchisees may enter into development agreements with the Company which provide limited territorial protection.

The majority of existing SmartStyle and Cost Cutters franchise agreements for salons located in Walmart Supercenters have a five yearfive-year term with a five yearfive-year option to renew. The franchise agreements are site specific.

The majority of existing Cost Cutters franchise agreements have a 15 year15-year term with a 15 year15-year option to renew (at the option of the franchisee), while the majority of First Choice Haircutters franchise agreements have a ten year term with a five year option to renew. The majority of Magicuts franchise agreements have a term equal to the greater of five years or the current initial term of the lease agreement with an option to renew for two additional five yearfive-year periods. The current franchise agreement is site specific. Franchisees may enter into development agreements with the Company which provide limited territorial protection.

Most franchise concepts maintain separate advertising funds that provide comprehensive marketing and sales support for each system. The Supercuts advertising fund is the Company's largest advertising fund and is administered by a council consisting of primarily franchisee representatives. The council has overall control of the advertising fund's expenditures and operates in accordance with terms of the franchise operating and other agreements. All stores, company-ownedfranchised and franchised,company-owned, contribute to the advertising funds. Depending on the brand, the funds are allocated to the brand contributing market for media placement and local marketing activities or to the creation of national advertising and system-wide activities.

The Company utilizes various marketing vehicles for its salons, including traditional advertising, guest relationship management, digital marketing programs and promotional/pricing based programs. Most marketing vehicles including radio, print, online, digital and television advertising are developed and supervised at the Company's Salon Support headquarters. The Company reviews its brand strategy with the intent to create more clear communication platforms, identities and differentiation points for our brands to drive consumer preference.

The Company maintains a noncontrollingnon-controlling 55.1% ownership interest in Empire Education Group, Inc. ("EEG")(EEG), which is accounted for as an equity method investment. See Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8, of this Form 10-K. EEG operates accredited cosmetology schools. ContributingWe entered into an agreement to sell our stake in EEG to the Company's beauty schoolscontrolling owner in fiscal 2008 to EEG leveraged EEG's management expertise,year 2020 while enabling the Company to maintain a vested interestenhancing our relationship in the beauty school industry. Additionally, we utilize our EEG relationshiporder to recruit stylists directly from beauty school. The transaction is expected to close in fiscal year 2021, at which time the Company expects to record an immaterial non-operating gain.

The Company holds numerous trademarks, both in the United States and in many foreign countries. The most recognized trademarks are "SmartStyle®," "Supercuts®," " "Regis Salons®," "Cost Cutters®," "First Choice Haircutters®," and "Magicuts®."

As of June 30, 2019,2020, the Company had approximately 20,0009,000 full and part-time employees worldwide, of which approximately 17,0008,000 employees were located in the United States. The Company believes its employee relations are amicable.

Information relating to the Executive Officers of the Company follows:

Hugh Sawyer has served as President and Chief Executive Officer, as well as a member of the Board of Directors, since April 2017. He was elected Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors in January 2020. Before joining Regis Corporation, he served as a Managing Director of Huron Consulting Group Inc. ("Huron")(Huron) from January 2010 to April 2017. While at Huron, he served as Interim President and CEO of JHT Holdings, Inc. from January 2010 to March 2012, as the Chief Administrative Officer of Fisker Automotive Inc. from January 2013 to March 2013 and as Chief Restructuring Officer of Fisker Automotive from March 2013 to October 2013, and as Interim President of Euramax International, Inc. from February 2014 to August 2015. Mr. Sawyer has served as President or CEO of nine companies (including Regis) and on numerous Boards of Directors. In February 2018, Mr. Sawyer was appointed to the Board of Directors of Huron.

Eric Bakken has served as President of Franchise and Executive Vice President since April 2017. He also served as Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, Corporate Secretary and General Counsel from April 2013 to January 2018. He also served as Interim Chief Financial Officer from September 2016 to January 2017. He served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Business Development and Interim Corporate Chief Operating Officer from 2012 to April 2013 and performed the function of interim principal executive officer between July 2012 and August 2012. Mr. Bakken joined the Company in 1994 as a lawyer and became General Counsel in 2004.

Chad Kapadia was appointed to Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in June 2018. Before joining Regis Corporation, he served as Head of Engineering at Target Corporation's New Ventures and Accelerators. Prior to Target Corporation, Mr. Kapadia served in technology positions of increasing responsibility including Chief Technology Officer and Product Head at Swissclear Global, Inc. and as an Engineering Leader and founding member of Netflix, Inc.'s Content Platform Engineering and Media Pipeline.

James Townsend was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer in April 2019. Before joining Regis Corporation, James was a Partner and Chief Development Officer for 72andSunny. Prior to 72andSunny, James served as Vice President of Client Services at Huge, Inc.; led the global Yahoo business for advertising agency, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners; led the San Francisco office of digital agency, Code and Theory; was the Executive Producer of the award-winning music company, The Rumor Mill; and started his career at Ogilvy in New York City.

Amanda Rusin was appointed as Senior Vice President and General Counsel and Secretary in January 2018. Before joining Regis Corporation, she served as Assistant General Counsel at Polaris Industries, Inc. from September 2015 to December 2017 and Senior Attorney at Polaris Industries, Inc. from June 2014 to September 2015. Before joining Polaris Industries, Inc. Ms. RusinShe served as Commercial Director at Cargill, Incorporated from August 2013 to May 2014 and Attorney at Cargill, Incorporated from June 2008 to August 2013.

The Company is subject to various federal, state, local and provincial laws affecting its business as well as a variety of regulatory provisions relating to the conduct of its beauty related business, including health and safety. During the third and fourth fiscal quarters of 2020, state and local governments temporarily mandated the closure of our franchise and company-owned salons in the response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. These government-mandated closures have and may continue throughout the pandemic. We monitor state and local regulations carefully to ensure the safety or our stylists and guests.

In the United States, the Company's franchise operations are subject to the Federal Trade Commission's Trade Regulation Rule on Franchising (the FTC Rule) and by state laws and administrative regulations that regulate various aspects of franchise operations and sales. The Company's franchises are offered to franchisees by means of an offering circular/disclosure document containing specified disclosures in accordance with the FTC Rule and the laws and regulations of certain states. The Company has registered its offering of franchises with the regulatory authorities of those states in which it offers franchises and in which such registration is required. State laws that regulate the franchisor-franchiseefranchisee/franchisor relationship presently exist in a substantial number of states and, in certain cases, apply substantive standards to this relationship. Such laws may, for example, require that the franchisor deal with the franchisee in good faith, may prohibit interference with the right of free association among franchisees and may limit termination of franchisees without payment of reasonable compensation. The Company believes that the current trend is for government regulation of franchising to increase over time. However, such laws have not had, and the Company does not expect such laws to have, a significant effect on the Company's operations.

In Canada, the Company's franchise operations are subject to franchise laws and regulations in the provinces of Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The offering of franchises in Canada occurs by way of a disclosure document, which contains certain disclosures required by the applicable provincial laws. The provincial franchise laws and regulations primarily focus on disclosure requirements, although each requires certain relationship requirements such as a duty of fair dealing and the right of franchisees to associate and organize with other franchisees.

The Company believes it is operating in substantial compliance with applicable laws and regulations governing all of its operations.

The Company maintains an ownership interest in EEG. Beauty schools derive a significant portion of their revenue from student financial assistance originating from the U.S. Department of Education's Title IV Higher Education Act of 1965. For the students to receive financial assistance at the school, the beauty schools must maintain eligibility requirements established by the U.S. Department of Education. In 2020, we signed an agreement to sell our ownership interest in EEG to the other owner. The transaction is expected to close in fiscal year 2021.

Financial information about foreign and North American markets is incorporated herein by reference to Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in Part II, Item 7 and segment information in Note 1415 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K.

Our operations expose us to risks associated with public health crises and epidemics/pandemics, such as the novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19) that has spread globally. COVID-19 has had, and will continue to have, an adverse impact on our operations, including the temporary closure of all of our company-owned salons and almost all of our franchise locations for most of the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020; implementation of a furlough program in the processfourth quarter for a substantial majority of implementingour workforce across our corporate office, field support and distribution centers; and temporary reductions in the pay for executives and other working employees at different levels for approximately two months during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020. The pandemic may affect the health and welfare of our stylist community, customers, franchise partners or headquarters personnel. As of the date of this filing, a new strategy, prioritiesmajority of our company-owned and initiativesfranchise salons have re-opened after having been temporarily closed for several weeks and/or months during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020. While most of our salons have been able to re-open, we expect that states may decide to again require the closure of salons as the level of COVID-19 positive cases continue to fluctuate, as we have already seen in California. Each time we are required to close and re-open salons, we will continue to experience the risks and business impacts described here, and further requirements to again close salons or limit and/or modify services or operations may exacerbate these impacts.

The unprecedented uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, including the rapidly changing governmental directives, public health challenges and progress, macroeconomic consequences and market reactions thereto, makes it more challenging for our management to estimate the future performance of our business and develop strategies to resume and/or continue operations or generate growth or achieve our initial or any inabilityrevised objectives for calendar year 2020 and fiscal year 2021. In particular, the uncertainty around COVID-19 will likely delay and/or impair our ability to executeconvert to a fully-franchised model by the end of calendar year 2020 as we had previously expected or for the net cash proceeds we had expected, and evolvewe may need to explore other transactions, such as closing or selling off certain salons.

In addition, as our strategystores are able to resume operations, some of our franchisees, many of whom were in the early stages of developing their businesses prior to the onset of the pandemic, have chosen or may choose not to due to a variety of factors, resume operation of their salons and/or they are facing challenges rehiring employees, reestablishing operations with their landlords and other vendors, and attracting customers back to their salons. As a result, in addition to our prior decision to suspend collection of franchise ad fund fees from our franchisees from April 1, 2020 through June 30, 2020, many of our franchisees have requested reductions or other modifications to their royalty payments or other amounts due to us, which may be critical to their ability to reestablishing operations, and they may simply be unable or unwilling to make lease, royalty or other payments to us and may be unable to continue to operate or need to close the salon. The removal or reduction of these payments, including the added expense associated with closed locations where the Company may have residual lease liability, has and is expected to continue to adversely impact our revenues and cash flows. Customers and employees may be cautious about returning to personal service providers, and we and our franchisees are incurring substantial additional costs to ensure the safety of our employees and customers. While we may experience an initial increased customer demand for our services and products when businesses’ resume operation, there is no assurance that such immediate increase will be sustained. Furthermore, many of our customers have themselves experienced adverse financial impacts from the pandemic, including loss of disposable income, which may limit their spending on personal care, including purchasing of beauty products, or have identified other means for hair care during the pandemic. The trend of increased remote work and utilization of advanced video-conferencing technology has led to a less-formal work environment which could impact the frequency of our hair care services. In addition, efforts to lift restrictions on individuals’ daily activities and businesses’ normal operations may result in a resurgence of COVID-19 and potentially prolong and intensify the impact of the crisis, including additional workers compensation claims and customer claims associated with the pandemic. Further, the pandemic could impact workers at our headquarters or compromise the performance of our Fremont, CA technology center.

As a result, COVID-19 has and will continue to negatively affect our revenue, increase the cost of salon operations, increase our investment in safety equipment and potentially expose us to additional liability, the combination of which will reduce our profitability, including the profitability of our franchisees. In addition, we retain residual real estate lease liability of $817.7 million for company-owned and nearly all franchise stores. The combination of the revenue reduction, obligations we ultimately owe to landlords, and other costs both related and unrelated to COVID-19 could significantly reduce or exhaust our available liquidity over time and limit our ability to access liquidity sources. While the economic impact of COVID-19 to our franchisees may be reduced by financial assistance under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act or other similar COVID-19 related federal and state programs, such programs may not have a positive impact on our corporate financial results and we believe we are currently ineligible for these programs.

COVID-19, and the volatile local, regional and global economic conditions stemming from the pandemic, as well as reactions to future pandemics or resurgences of COVID-19, including government mandates, could also precipitate or aggravate the other risk factors identified in this Form 10-K, which in turn could materially adversely impactaffect our business, financial condition, liquidity, results of operations (including revenues and profitability) and/or stock price. Further, COVID-19 may also affect our operating and financial results, certain litigation or regulatory risks or the value of our salon brands in a manner that is not presently known to us or that we currently do not consider to present significant risks to our operations.

The Company depends upon the support of a small number of critical suppliers, including its merchandise, PPE and technology providers, including its third-party point of sale system supplier. We have experienced limited disruption in operations from these suppliers. The continuing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic may pose additional disruptions in our supply chain or in the in the availability of products and services, or could increase the prices we pay to our suppliers, which could result in a material impact to our own operations.

On December 31, 2019, we re-acquired certain assets that were used in the middleoperation of a strategic transformation in which we seek to accelerate the growth of our franchise model while at the same time improve the performance of company-owned salons. As part of our strategic transformation, we sold substantially all of our mall-based salon business in North Americathe United States and substantially allCanada at which we had residual real estate lease liability from our original sale of the salons to TBG. The transfer was consummated in connection with an assignment for the benefit of creditors by TBG. The assets acquired in connection with the salon reacquisition are, in the aggregate, unprofitable and the total lease liability related to the salons is approximately $23 million as of June 30, 2020. We are attempting to renegotiate these lease obligations; however, the outcome of those negotiations is currently uncertain. In addition to the salons, we assumed limited liabilities for certain employee benefit related payments. In connection with the reacquisition of the salons, we also terminated certain other agreements we had with TBG that we had already recorded a full reserve against the promissory notes evidencing TBG’s obligations to us. As a result of our previous International segmentreacquisition of these salons in connection with TBG assignment for the benefit of creditors, there is a risk that a creditor of TBG could seek to void or otherwise challenge the transfer as a preference transaction. If a TBG creditor was successful in making such a claim, we could remain liable on the leases without the ability to operate the salons to generate revenue to fund the lease obligations.

As previously announced, we entered into a franchise agreement with the Bushell Investment Group (Bushell), which acquired over 100 salons (including 8 TGF salons) as partin the United Kingdom from TBG in December 2019. The transaction occurred in connection with TBG’s insolvency proceedings in the United Kingdom. While we do not have any financial obligations in connection with the salons transferred to Bushell, the administrator in TBG’s insolvency proceeding has a legal obligation to review our original and subsequent transactions with TBG in the United Kingdom. If the administrator were to challenge our original transaction with TBG, the administrator could seek remedies to effectively unwind the economics of the operational restructuringoriginal transaction or impair the ability of Bushell to continue operating these salons as our franchisee. While we do not expect the administrator to identify any concerns with our original or any subsequent transaction, any allegations against the validity of these transactions could disrupt the operation of the SmartStyle portfolio;salons by Bushell and implemented various initiatives intendedwe could face significant adverse financial impacts or management distraction.

Guest loyalty is dependent upon the stylists who serve our guests and the customer experience in our franchised and company-owned salons. Qualified, trained stylists are key to a memorable guest experience that creates loyal customers. In order to profitably grow our business, it is important for our franchisees and company-owned salons to attract, train and retain talented stylists and salon leaders and to adequately staff our salons. Because the salon industry is highly fragmented and comprised of many independent operators, the market for stylists is typically highly competitive. In addition, increases in minimum wage requirements may impact the number of stylists considering careers outside the beauty industry. There is also a low unemployment rate and high competition for employees in the service industry, particularly licensed employees, which drives increased competition for stylists and could result in retention and hiring difficulties. In some markets, we and our franchisees have experienced a shortage of qualified stylists. Offering competitive wages, benefits, education and training programs are important elements to attracting and retaining qualified stylists. In addition, due to challenges facing the for-profit education industry, cosmetology schools including our investment in EEG, have experienced declines in enrollment, revenues and profitability in recent years. If the cosmetology school industry sustains further declines in enrollment or some schools close entirely, or if stylists leave the beauty industry, we expect that we and our franchisees would have increased difficulty staffing our salons in some markets. In addition, we have observed that some stylists are not comfortable coming back to the salon environment during COVID-19 and the enhanced unemployment amounts provided by the federal government during COVID-19 in some cases decreases stylists' incentive to come back to work during COVID-19. If our company-owned salons or franchisees are not successful in attracting, training and retaining stylists or in staffing our salons, our same-store sales or the performance of our franchise business could experience periods of variability or sales could decline and our results of operations could be adversely affected.

As of June 30, 2019,2020, approximately 56%76.1% of our salons were franchised locations, and we intendcontinue to expand our number of franchised locations, where we believe it will enhance shareholder value.pursue conversion to a fully-franchised model. We derive revenues associated with our franchised locations from royalties, fees and product sales to franchised locations. Our financial results are therefore substantially dependent in part upon the operational and financial success of our franchisees. As we increase our focus on our franchise business, our dependence on our franchisees grows.

We have limited control over how our franchisees’ businesses are run. Though we have established operational standards and guidelines, they own, operate and oversee the daily operations of their salon locations.locations including employee-related matters and pricing. If franchisees do not successfully operate their salons in compliance with our standards, our brand reputation and image could be harmed, and our financial results could be affected. We could experience greater risks as the scale of our franchise owners increases. Further, some franchise owners may not successfully execute the rebranding and/or turnaround of under-performing salons which we have transferred to them.them particularly in the post-COVID environment.

In addition, our franchisees are subject to the same general economic risks as our Company, and their results are influenced by competition for both guests and stylists, market trends, price competition and disruptions in their markets and business operations due to public health issues, including pandemics, severe weather and other external events. Like us, they rely on external vendors for some critical functions and to protect their company data. They may also be limited in their ability to open new locations by an inability to secure adequate financing, especially since many of them are small businesses with much more limited access to financing than our Company, or by the limited supply of favorable real estate for new salon locations.locations, or by government-mandated restrictions on salon operations due to COVID-19 or other pandemics. They may also experience financial distress as a result of over-leveraging, which could negatively affect our operating results as a result of delayed paymentsor non-payments to us. The bankruptcy, default, abandonment, or other default or breach by or of a franchisee could also expose us to liability under leases, which are generally sub-leased by us to our franchisees.

A deterioration in the financial results of our franchisees, or a failure of our franchisees to renew their franchise agreements, could adversely affect our operating results through decreased royalty payments, fees and product revenues.

During fiscal year 2019, we accelerated the sale of company-owned salons to new and existing franchisees and inIn August 2019, the Company announced that weour plan to convert to a fully franchisedfully-franchised platform over time. The sales ofWhile we have had significant success in converting our company-owned salons were acrossto franchisees, our brands to new and existing franchisees during fiscal year 2019.

In addition, challenges in supporting our expanding franchise system could cause our operating results to suffer. If we are unable to effectively select and train new franchisees and support and manage our growing franchisee base, it could affect our brand standards, cause disputes between us and our franchisees, and potentially lead to material liabilities.

The normal operations of our business and our new investments in technology involve processing, transmission and storage of potentially personal information about our guests as well as employees, franchisees, vendors and our Company. Cyber-attacks designed to gain access to sensitive information by breaching mission critical systems of large organizations and their third partythird-party vendors are constantly evolving, and high profile electronic security breaches leading to unauthorized release of sensitive guest information have occurred at a number of large U.S. companies in recent years. Despite the security measures and processes we have in place, our efforts, and those of our third partythird-party vendors, to protect sensitive guest, franchisee, Company and employee information may not be successful in preventing a breach in our systems or detecting and responding to a breach on a timely basis. As a result of a security incident or breach in our systems, our systems could be interrupted or damaged, or sensitive information could be accessed by third parties. If that happened,occurred, our guests could lose confidence in our ability to protect their information, which could cause them to stop visiting our salons altogether.altogether or our franchisees could exit the system due to lack of confidence as well. Such events could lead to lost future sales and adversely affect our results of operations. In addition, as the regulatory environment relating to retailers and other companies' obligations to protect sensitive data becomes stricter, a material failure on our part to comply with applicable regulations could subject us to fines or other regulatory sanctions and potentially to lawsuits.lawsuits with the possibility of substantial damages. These laws are changing rapidly and vary among jurisdictions. Furthermore, while our franchisees are independently responsible for data security at their franchised locations, a breach of guest or vendor data at a franchised location could also negatively affect public perception of our brands. More broadly, our incident response preparedness and disaster recovery planning efforts may be inadequate or ill-suited for a security incident and we could suffer disruption of operations or adverse effects to our operating results.

The following table shows the stock repurchase activity by the Company or any “affiliated purchaser” of the Company, as defined in Rule 10b-18(a)(3) under the Exchange Act, by month for the three months ended June 30, 2019:2020:

Beginning with the period ended September 30, 2017, the operations of the mall-based business and International segment were accounted for as a discontinued operation. All periods presented reflect the mall-based business and International segment as a discontinued operation.

The following table sets forth selected financial data derived from the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8.8 of this Form 10-K. The table should be read in conjunction with Item 7, "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations", and Item 8, "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data", of this Report on Form 10-K.

Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (MD&A) is designed to provide a reader of our financial statements with a narrative from the perspective of our management on our financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and certain other factors that may affect our future results.

Regis Corporation (RGS) franchises, owns and operates beauty salons. As of June 30, 2019,2020, the Company franchised, owned or held ownership interests in 7,1456,923 worldwide locations. Our locations consisted of 7,0596,841 system-wide North American and International salons, and in 8682 locations we maintain a non-controlling ownership interest less than 100 percent. Each of the Company’s salon concepts generally offer similar salon products and services. As of June 30, 2019,2020, we had approximately 20,0009,000 corporate employees worldwide. See discussion within Part I, Item 1.

In October 2018,2017, the Company sold substantially all of its mall-based salon business in North America, representing 858 company-owned salons, and substantially all of its International segment, representing approximately 250 company-owned salons, to TBG. In the second quarter of fiscal year 2020, TBG transferred 207 of its North American salons to the Company. See Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8, of this Form 10-K, as the results of operations for the mall-based business and International segment are accounted for as a discontinued operation for all periods presented.

In January 2018, the Company closed 597 non-performing company-owned SmartStyle salons. The 597 non-performing salons generated negative cash flow of approximately $15 million during the twelve months ended September 30, 2017. The action delivers on the Company's commitment to restructure its salon portfolio to improve shareholder value and position the Company for long-term growth. A summary of costs associated with the SmartStyle salon restructuring for fiscal year 2018 is as follows:

In addition, the Company recorded approximately $1.9 million of other related costs to the SmartStyle restructuring, primarily warehouse related costs. Substantially all related costs associated with the SmartStyle salon restructuring requiring cash outflow were complete as of June 30, 2018.