The major professional hair care companies are vying with one another in tying up with the best professional hair care distributors so as to be in a stronger position to ward off stiff competition from their main competitors which in turn has seen companies such as L’Oreal trying to acquire Alberto-Culver while Procter & Gamble trying to tie up with Clairol in a bid to outdo L’Oreal which as we all know is the leader in professional hair care products.
Alberto-Culver Is A Good Professional Hair Care Distributor
A professional hair care distributor such as Alberto-Culver that already makes its own line of hair care products does boast of the fact that it is the largest professional hair care distributor to all the major salons in the US. With a tie-up between L’Oreal and Alberto-Culver on the cards both companies stand to gain a lot and can consolidate their grip on the more than two billion dollar professional market in the US.
When and if L’Oreal does tie up with Alberto-Culver it will mean that along with this major professional hair care distributor, L’Oreal will be able widen its lead over Procter & Gamble – at least in the US. Even without the help of a professional hair care distributor such as Alberto-Culver, L’Oreal already has more than twice the professional hair care market share than Procter & Gamble with sales of the French company in the year 2003 being estimated at six hundred and fifty-three million dollars.
Alberto-Culver for its part is a major professional hair care distributor and in fact its distribution business is far more profitable than selling of its own hair care products with distribution business accounting for almost seventy-five percent of its total revenues from sales. Alberto-Culver already has about two thousand Sally Beauty Supply stores and of course Culver also is the owner of Beauty Systems Group that is another major professional hair care distributor.
The stakes are indeed high for both the two main professional hair care product manufacturers (Procter & Gamble and L’Oreal) and this is why Procter & Gamble is trying to scuttle the deal between L’Oreal and Alberto-Culver by making its own offer. In fact both companies are expected to offer this professional hair care distributor with deals that range from between four plus billion dollars to just under five billion dollars.
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