Exhibit 99.1
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Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. Announces a Management Change
DENTON, TEXAS, March 11, 2008 — Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:SBH) today announced that David L. Rea has resigned, effective April 11, 2008, as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. Mr. Rea, who is resigning to spend more time with his family and pursue other interests, has agreed to continue serving in a consulting role with the Company for approximately three months following his effective termination date.
“We are sorry to see David leave but we wish him all the best with his future and thank him for his efforts during our transition as an independent public company” stated Gary Winterhalter, President and Chief Executive Officer. “Mark Flaherty, our current Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, will serve as Acting Chief Financial Officer as we conduct a search to consider both internal and external candidates. Mark was previously the Chief Financial Officer of Tandy Brands Accessories prior to joining the Company.”
“I believe the Company can be quite proud of its accomplishments since the separation transaction from Alberto Culver” stated David Rea, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. “I am thankful to have had the opportunity to work with the Company and want to express my wishes for continued success to the entire Sally Beauty team.”
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 more than $2.5 billion annually. Through the Sally Beauty Supply and Beauty Systems Group businesses, the Company sells and distributes through over 3,500 stores, including approximately 200 franchised units, throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Japan, Ireland, Spain and Germany. Sally Beauty Supply stores offer more than 5,000 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. For more information about Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc., please visit www.sallybeautyholdings.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
Statements in this release which are not purely historical facts or which depend upon future events may be forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Words such as “anticipate,”
“believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “project,” “target,” “can,” “could,” “may,” “should,” “will,” “would,” or similar expressions may also identify such forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as such statements speak only as of the date they were made. Any forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from the events or results described in the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, risks and uncertainties related to: our limited history as a stand-alone company; the preparedness of our accounting and other management systems to meet financial reporting and other requirements and the upgrade of our existing financial reporting system; the representativeness of our historical consolidated financial information with respect to our future financial position, results of operations or cash flows; realizing the anticipated benefits of our separation from Alberto-Culver; since our separation from Alberto-Culver, our inability to achieve the benefits of scale that were achieved by Alberto-Culver prior to our separation from Alberto-Culver; being a holding company, with no operations of our own, and depending on our subsidiaries for cash; the highly competitive and consolidating nature of the beauty products distribution industry; anticipating changes in consumer preferences and buying trends or to manage our product lines and inventory; our dependence upon manufacturers who may be unwilling or unable to continue to supply products to us; products sold by us being found to be defective in labeling or content; compliance with laws and regulations or becoming subject to additional or more stringent laws and regulations; product diversion; the operational and financial performance of our Armstrong McCall business; the success of our new Internet-based business; successfully identifying acquisition candidates or successfully completing desirable acquisitions; integration of businesses acquired in the future; opening and operating new stores profitably; the success of our cost control plans; protecting our intellectual property rights, specifically our trademarks; conducting business in international markets; disruption in our information technology systems; natural disasters or acts of terrorism; our substantial indebtedness; the possibility that we may incur substantial additional debt; restrictions and limitations in the agreements and instruments governing our debt; generating the significant amount of cash needed to service all of our debt and refinancing all or a portion of our indebtedness or obtaining additional financing; changes in interest rates increasing the cost of servicing our debt or increasing our interest expense due to our interest rate swap agreements; the share distribution of Alberto-Culver common stock in our separation from Alberto-Culver not constituting a tax-free distribution; actions taken by certain large shareholders adversely affecting the tax-free nature of the share distribution of Alberto-Culver common stock; significant restrictions on our ability to issue equity securities; the voting power of our largest stockholder discouraging third party acquisitions of us at a premium; and the interests of our largest stockholder differing from the interests of other holders of our common stock.
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, 2007 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2007, each 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.
