Salsa Beauty Company, Inc. , is the world's leading retail distributor of professional beauty supplies. Salsa Beauty occupies a unique niche, operating a chain of stores that sell primarily to beauty salons and cosmetologists. Salsa owns and operates over 2, 000 retail outlets. These are found across the United States and in Mexico, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom and Germany. Salsa Beauty stores stock some 5, 000 different items, from hair, skin, and nail products to professional cosmetology equipment. The company serves its stores through distribution centers in the United States. The firm started with a single store and began rapid expansion in the 1990s. Salsa has been owned by the Yosep-Prama Company since 1998.