The Stephan Co. engages in the manufacture, sale and distribution of hair care and personal care products at both the wholesale and retail level. The company has distribution centers in Danville, Illinois, Williamsport, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, North Carolina.
Segments
The company operates in two segments/reporting units: Distributors and Brands.
Distributors segment: The Distributors segment consists of a customer base of distributors that purchase the company's hair care products and b...
The Stephan Co. engages in the manufacture, sale and distribution of hair care and personal care products at both the wholesale and retail level. The company has distribution centers in Danville, Illinois, Williamsport, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, North Carolina.
Segments
The company operates in two segments/reporting units: Distributors and Brands.
Distributors segment: The Distributors segment consists of a customer base of distributors that purchase the company's hair care products and beauty and barber supplies for sale to salons, barbershops and beauty schools.
Brands segment: The customer base for Brands segment includes mass merchandisers, chain drug stores and supermarkets that sell hair care and other personal care products directly to the end user, and distributors that sell to retailers.
Distributors
Morris Flamingo-Stephan, Inc., located in Danville, Illinois, is a beauty and barber distributor, which markets its products utilizing catalogs published under the Morris Flamingo and other brand names. Williamsport Barber and Beauty Corp., located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, is a mail order beauty and barber supply company. Bowman Beauty and Barber Supply, Inc., located in Wilmington, North Carolina, is principally a mail order barber and beauty supply company. These subsidiaries comprise the Distributors segment.
Brands
The company manufactures and distributes a variety of brands at its Florida facilities. The company manufactures Image and Sorbie hair care products that are sold primarily through distributors to salons and retail outlets. It also makes Cashmere Bouquet talc, Quinsana Medicated talc, Balm Barr and Stretch Mark creams and lotions, Protein 29 liquid and gel grooming aids, Stiff Stuff and Wildroot hair care products. Additionally, its Frances Denney division markets a line of cosmetics through retail and mail order channels.
The company manufactures shampoos, hair treatments, after-shave lotion, dandruff lotion, hair conditioners and hair spray under the brand name ‘STEPHAN'S’.
The company manufactures and markets LeKair and New Era for the African American market. It makes and sells OLD 97, KNIGHTS, and TAMMY. It distributes ‘Natural’ and ‘French’ American Manicure nail polish manicure kits to other distributors and salons.
Under the terms of an Trademark License and Supply Agreement with Color Me Beautiful, Inc. (CMB), the company markets the brand names (owned by CMB) Hope, Interlude and Fade-away through its retail chains in the United States and Canada. The company also sells products to distributors in Europe, South America and Asia.
History
Stephan Co. was founded in 1897.