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P&G Salon Pro’s Perry To Retire

Sales vet caps off long career with Clairol Professional.

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By: TOM BRANNA

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Senior VP for P&G Salon Professional open lines John Perry will retire at the end of the month August 2011, the company announced. His departure caps an extraordinary 33-year career in the salon industry, all of it with Clairol Professional.

Starting in the days when virtually every distributor mounted his own trade show, Perry worked with every major house, bringing Miss Clairol, the Beautiful Collection and later, Wella Color Charm, to stores and salons across the country.

Perry began representing Clairol in the Midwest US in 1978. He moved up steadily—to a territory in the East, a management role back in the midwest, a regional sales position in the southeast, and finally to director of sales for Clairol Professional in 1994.

When P&G Salon Professional acquired the Clairol brand from Bristol-Myers Squibb in 2001, Perry took on the Wella Color Charm line and established both brands as the open line powerhouses they are today, the firm said.

Under Perry’s leadership, Clairol Professional has successfully reinvented and restaged its entire portfolio with the latest P&G color technology. This fall, Wella Color Charm will be restaged with all-new technology.

“John has been a leader and a mentor to our entire organization, both open and exclusive lines,” said P&G Salon Professional CEO Reuben Carranza. “He has built an organization that’s creative, agile and absolutely dedicated to the customer. It’s a magnificent legacy.”

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