Sally Beauty Supply, nobody wants her
Sally Beauty Supply is being kicked out of the house
Back on January 12th I wrote a piece about the ugly divorce between the founders of Alberto Culver, Carol and Howard Bernick. This story continues to get wierder and wierder as each new development evolves. In what has become one of the ugliest business destroying divorces of my memory. A family squabble, not unlike that of every family, only not many of us make the front page of the financial times.
In a move, I’m sure necessitated by a need for cash to buy each other out, the Alberto Culver board of directors decided to marry Regis with their daughter Sally Beauty Supply. Then suddenly last week the Alberto Culver board of directors announced that the nuptials were off. Personally, I do not think this whole mess has anything to do with problems at Regis. If you think this one through, you can kind of see behind the curtains. The board of directors is struggling mightily to keep the Bernicks’ from taking down the whole shebang in an awful messy divorce .
Can you imagine the turmoil, stress and anguish of the employees at Sally Beauty Supply, Regis, and Alberto Culver. This has got to be tearing them apart. That’s the real sad part of this story. Both Sally Beauty Supply and Regis are well managed companies, populated with good employees who do not deserve to suffer the consequences of the Bernicks’ messy divorce.
Now it appears as the parents are kicking Sally out of the house. Here’s the latest development in the saga courtesy of MSN:
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Alberto considers options as Regis deal fails Alberto-Culver, the world’s largest seller of hair salon products, will consider spinning off its consumer goods and beauty outlets businesses. The move comes after a $2.6bn deal to merge its Sally Beauty chain with Regis Corporation fell apart last week. The collapse of the deal with Regis, the leading global operator of hair salons, has thrust US-based Alberto into the spotlight. It has raised speculation that the group, which makes VO5 shampoo and is the number two haircare company in the UK, could be a takeover target. Alberto in January agreed with Regis to spin off its chain of almost 2,500 Sally Beauty professionaMade for some unusual partnershipsl hair care salons to Regis. The aim was to resolve a conflict between Alberto’s role as supplier of shampoo and other personal care products to retailers such as Wal-Mart and as a competitor to such retailers by selling products from Procter & Gamble and L’Oreal at its own stores. Howard Bernick, chief executive, said the arrangement had “made for some unusual partnerships”. The Regis deal would have separated out Alberto’s consumer products business, which accounts for about one-third of group sales, from the salon business. |
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i have an interest in buying a sallys beauty supply franchise. any recommendations?
thanks for your time.
heather
Comment by heather still — July 31, 2006 @ 9:19 pm
I might be wrong but I think all of the Sally Supply outlets are company owned.
Give a call to your local store. If they are franchised they will know about it and most likely have a brochure for you.
Or find the Sally Beauty Supply website that will have headquarters contact information.
Let us know what you found.
Good Luck
Comment by Barb — August 1, 2006 @ 7:04 pm
hey um…. we like ur sight and we want to be hair stylists lol but um… we r only in 9th grade
Comment by abby and bekky — November 6, 2006 @ 9:35 am
hey i like ur website. im in 7th
Comment by lauren — November 6, 2006 @ 9:41 am
I just recently quit from Barnum Beauty.
I am so glad to be done with that company!!!!
The are the worst company to work for. During the whole losing l’oreal thing they told us to tell the customers we know nothing about the \”rumors\” yeah right!!!! I refuse to work for such a dishonest company
Comment by Ashley — January 23, 2007 @ 4:26 pm