Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. Deploys Excess Cash to Reduce Debt Levels

DENTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SBH) (“the Company”) today provided an update on its liquidity.

In partnership with affiliates of Bank of America, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Citizens, and Truist, the Company completed an amendment to the terms of the Company’s existing secured asset-based revolving line of credit (expires July 2022), which suspends certain anti-cash hoarding restrictions when the outstanding balance remains below $375 million.

As a result of the increased flexibility resulting from the amendment, the significant cash-generating potential of Sally Beauty Holdings and the stability of the business in recent months, even in the face of COVID-19, the Company took the first step in delevering its balance sheet by paying off the entire existing $375.5 million balance on its revolving line of credit, paying off the Company’s existing $20 million FILO term loan facility, and also prepaying a $50 million portion of its 4.5% Fixed Rate Term Loan.

“Our ability to reduce leverage is a testament to the resilience of our business throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, our aggressive cash management efforts, and the partnerships we have with our bank group. We had more than $925 million of cash on hand at the end of August and following the deleveraging effort will retain significant flexibility to respond to the market environment given our cash on hand and the funding availability under our secured asset-based line of credit,” said Chris Brickman, president and chief executive officer.

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 approximately $3.9 billion annually. Through the Sally Beauty Supply and Beauty Systems Group businesses, the Company sells and distributes through 5,062 stores, including 158 franchised units, and has operations throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Peru, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Germany. Sally Beauty Supply stores offer up to 8,000 products for hair color, hair care, skin care, and nails through proprietary brands such as Ion®, Generic Value Products®, Beyond the Zone® and Silk Elements® as well as professional lines such as Wella®, Clairol®, OPI®, Conair® and Hot Shot Tools®. Beauty Systems Group stores, branded as CosmoProf® or Armstrong McCall® stores, along with its outside sales consultants, sell up to 10,500 professionally branded products including Paul Mitchell®, Wella®, Matrix®, Schwarzkopf®, Kenra®, Goldwell®, Joico® and CHI®, intended for use in salons and for resale by salons to retail consumers. For more information about Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc., please visit https://www.sallybeautyholdings.com/.

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