The Stephan Co. primarily engages in the manufacture, sale, and distribution of hair care and personal care grooming products on both wholesale and retail level. It conducts its operations through three segments: Professional Hair Care Products and Distribution (PHC), Retail Personal Care Products (RPC), and Manufacturing. The PHC segment generally consists of a customer base of distributors, which purchase the company's hair care products, and beauty and barber supplies for sale to salons and barbershops. Its wet goods include shampoos, conditioners, gels, and similar hair treatments whereas its hard goods include scissors, clippers, combs, dryers, and other products used in styling hair. The RPC segment includes mass merchandisers, chain drug stores, and supermarkets that sell hair care and other personal care products directly to the end user. The Manufacturing segment manufactures products for subsidiaries of the company and private label brands for certain customers. The company was founded in 1897 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.