Business Segments (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Segment data for the three and six months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014 is as follows (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended March 31,						Six Months Ended March 31,
	2015			2014			2015			2014
Net sales:
Sally Beauty Supply	$	572,110		$	569,618		$	1,158,629		$	1,142,973
BSG	365,645			349,853			743,593			716,962
Total	$	937,755		$	919,471		$	1,902,222		$	1,859,935
Earnings before provision for income taxes:
Segment operating profit:
Sally Beauty Supply	$	106,089		$	105,474		$	207,268		$	209,017
BSG	55,607			50,882			112,197			105,717
Segment operating profit	161,696			156,356			319,465			314,734
Unallocated expenses (a)	(29,849		)	(29,000		)	(63,621		)	(57,063		)
Share-based compensation expense	(2,840		)	(3,268		)	(10,600		)	(11,790		)
Interest expense	(29,228		)	(29,258		)	(58,469		)	(57,747		)
Earnings before provision for income taxes	$	99,779		$	94,830		$	186,775		$	188,134

(a)

Unallocated expenses consist of corporate and shared costs.

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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