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Alberto-Culver Company.(Company Profile)

Publication: Research
Date: Wednesday, December 1 2004

Simply Beautiful

Alberto-Culver Company ("Alberto") manufactures and markets leading personal care products, including Alberto VO5, TRESemme and St. Ives, in the United States and internationally. Alberto also owns Sally Beauty Co., the world's No. 1 marketer of professional beauty care products through its chain of 2,116 Sally cash-and-carry stores in North America, and 239 Sally stores internationally. Its BSG (Beauty Systems Group) network of exclusive professional distributorships has 1,167 sales consultants calling directly on salons in the U.S. and Canada, and 69

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