Industry Beauty salon Parent Private CEO Lyn Kirby (Jan 2014–) Founder Bob Bernstein Type Privately held company | Services Personal grooming Website beautybrands.com Number of locations 65 (November 2013) Founded 1995 | |
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Key people Lyn Kirby
(Chairman-CEO)
Rich Bos
(President) Headquarters Kansas City, Missouri, United States Profiles | ||
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Beauty Brands Inc. is a salon and spa superstore developed and founded by the advertising company, Bernstein-Rein. The company headquarters is run out of Kansas City, Missouri. The company was purchased in November 2013 by a private California-based company replacing Bob Bernstein and David Bernstein with Lyn Kirby as the CEO and Rich Bos as President respectively.
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Founding
Robert "Bob" Bernstein, CEO of Bernstein-Rein, advertising company, developed and founded the salon and spa superstore in 1995. Bob's son, David, started with the company in 1995, became Vice President of Operations in 2000, then the COO in 2006 before Bob finally made David President and Owner of Beauty Brands in 2009, with Bob remaining as Chairman-CEO.
Locations
As of April 2013, Beauty Brands has 65 locations in 11 states, spanning all over the Midwest with stores in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, and Texas.
New ownership
In 2013, the company was purchased in part by Lyn Kirby, the former CEO of Ulta and the buyout group she works for based in California. Kirby bought the majority stake from Bob Bernstein. Bernstein will still have a minority interest in the company. The private-equity buyer and terms of the deal cannot be discussed by either party due to a confidentiality agreement.
Kirby will serve as CEO of the company, while Rich Bos replaced David Bernstein as president while Bernstein will continue to serve as a consultant as needed. Bos spent more than two decades with Ulta, ultimately as the vice president of merchandising.
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