Article: Professional hair care in flux. (Beauty Care)

|Several suppliers have introduced lines that are similar to the salon brands but priced for the mass market.'

CDR Roundup - professional hair care has long represented a sizable and highly profitable niche in chain drug hair care sales. Salon-type products, generally supplied by diverters, can help drug chains raise margins by offsetting sharply priced commodity brands in such areas as shampoos and conditioners.

Recently, however, many manufacturers of salon products have been cracking down on diversion of their merchandise. They feel that having the products offered in mass market outlets, often at prices well below what salons charge, undercuts the ...

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