Company: SBH
Filing Date: 2025-12-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-313464
Chunk: 27

Company: Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 27
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 community and our planet; we want to look outside our company and seek out ways to contribute positively in the world. We believe that one way we can achieve our purpose and reflect core values in our global operations is to accelerate sustainability in product development, packaging and sourcing, and we are committed to doing that. We continue to make progress toward our long-term sustainability goals.

Our Merchandising and Sourcing teams are regularly in contact with our vendors and suppliers about using more sustainable, cleaner and greener products and packaging. We seek to lock arms with vendors on the approach to sustainability issues and products. All finished formulas in our owned-brand products are cruelty-free,i.e., not tested on animals. In addition, our Company strives to avoid product formulations that contain parabens and phthalates.

In FY20, we launchedInspired By Nature, a line of hair color and care under our Ion brand, that utilizes strict sustainability guidelines as it relates to packaging: hair color is filled in 100% recycled aluminum tubes; hair color caps are made from PCR; unit cartons for all hair color are produced with materials that are sourced from sustainably-managed forests; and hair care packaging is fully recyclable.

As we head into FY26, we are in a position to ensure our own brand product packaging in the United States is comprised of more than 25% post-consumer recycled materials, including 50% of new launches. It is our intent to continue to increase that percentage over time, and to pursue similar goals in both Europe and Latin America. Across the globe, we are also endeavoring to reduce the total packaging on our own brand products.

In Europe, we adopted new policies around eco-friendly owned brands development, and have (1) consistently altered packaging to sustainable solutions, and (2) offered products with eco-friendly ingredients and eco-friendly certification. We have also issued a “Green Magazine” to share our initiatives with outside stakeholders.

In Europe, we launchedWUNDERBAR, a fully re-shaped Care and Styling range that includes sustainable packaging (plastic from the ocean), eco-friendly ingredients and eco-friendly certification.

Our commitment to sustained responsible sourcing and ethical practices throughout our supply chain is also reflected in ourSupplier Code of Conduct and Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

OurSupplier Code of Conduct (Supplier Code)applies to our vendors’ and suppliers’ business activities, including work performed through subcontractors. The Supplier Code requires suppliers to comply with our standards regarding “Ethical Sourcing”(e.g., forced labor, child labor,