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The Board of Directors of Sally Beauty Holdings Authorizes New $1.0 Billion Share Repurchase Program
[August 21, 2014]

The Board of Directors of Sally Beauty Holdings Authorizes New $1.0 Billion Share Repurchase Program


(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire - 21 August 2014 Release date- 20082014 - DENTON, Texas - Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SBH) (the 'Company') today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a new share repurchase program authorizing the Company to repurchase up to $1.0 billion of its common stock during the period from August 20, 2014 through September 30, 2017.



This share repurchase program is the fourth repurchase authorized by the Company and terminates the Company's prior $700 million share repurchase program under which the Company had repurchased $546 million of its common stock as of June 30, 2014.

'This new share repurchase program underscores our continued commitment to building shareholder value and reflects the Board's confidence in our business and on-going cash flow,' said Gary Winterhalter, Chairman and CEO. 'We will continue to prioritize investments in Company growth and other long-term initiatives while using our remaining cash flow to repurchase shares. Since May 2012, we've repurchased over $1.0 billion of our stock.' The Company expects to fund the share repurchases through a combination of cash on hand, future cash flow from operations and borrowings. Repurchases may be made at management's discretion from time to time on the open market, in privately negotiated transactions or otherwise, in each case subject to compliance with all Securities and Exchange Commission rules and other legal requirements.


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 $3.6 billion annually. Through the Sally Beauty Supply and Beauty Systems Group businesses, the Company sells and distributes through 4,700 stores, including approximately 200 franchised units, throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Chile, Peru, France, the Netherlands, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Ireland, Spain and Germany. Sally Beauty Supply stores offer up to 10,000 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 10,000 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.

Cautionary Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements Statements in this news 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 ability to successfully execute on the share repurchase program; the highly competitive nature of, and the increasing consolidation of, the beauty products distribution industry; anticipating changes in consumer preferences and buying trends and managing our product lines and inventory; potential fluctuation in our same store sales and quarterly financial performance; our dependence upon manufacturers who may be unwilling or unable to continue to supply products to us; the possibility of material interruptions in the supply of beauty supply products by our manufacturers or third-party distributors; 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 franchise-based business; the success of our e-commerce business; successfully identifying acquisition candidates and successfully completing desirable acquisitions; integrating acquired businesses; opening and operating new stores profitably; the impact of the health of the economy upon our business; the success of our cost control plans; protecting our intellectual property rights, particularly our trademarks; the risk that our products may infringe on the intellectual property of others; conducting business outside the United States; disruption in our information technology systems; a significant data security breach, including misappropriation of our customers' or employees' personal information, and the potential costs related thereto; the negative impact on our reputation and loss of confidence of our customers, suppliers and others arising from a significant data security breach; the costs and diversion of management attention required to investigate and remediate a data security breach; the ultimate determination of the extent or scope of the potential liabilities relating to our recent data security incident; severe weather, natural disasters or acts of violence or terrorism; the preparedness of our accounting and other management systems to meet financial reporting and other requirements and the upgrade of our financial reporting system; being a holding company, with no operations of our own, and depending on our subsidiaries for cash; our substantial indebtedness; the possibility that we may incur substantial additional debt, including secured debt, in the future; 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; the potential impact on us if the financial institutions we deal with become impaired; and the costs and effects of litigation.

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 filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2013 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2014, in each case 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.

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.

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