October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Here's How Regis Salons Are Supporting the Cause

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Here's How Regis Salons
Are Supporting the Cause
Regis Salons Clip for the Cure



MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 13  /PRNewswire/ -- 

  WHO         Anyone who is a woman or knows a woman

  WHAT        Regis Salons' 14th Annual Clip for the Cure

  WHEN        In Regis Salons across the U.S. and Canada on Saturday,
              October 23, 2004

  HOW TO GET  1. Get a Haircut!
  INVOLVED       Sign up for a $15 haircut by a top-notch Regis Salons
                 stylist.
                 Regis donates 100% of net proceeds to the Regis Foundation
                 for Breast Cancer Research.

              2. Buy Regis Salons' designLINE products or a $50 gift card
                 the entire month of October.
                 -- With any purchase of Regis Salons' designLINE hair care
                    products in October, Regis will donate 10% of net
                    proceeds to the Regis Foundation for Breast Cancer
                    Research.
                 -- For each $50 Regis gift card purchased in October, Regis
                    will donate $5 to the Regis Foundation for Breast Cancer
                    Research.

  WHERE       Clip for the Cure takes place at participating Regis Salons
              across the United States and Canada. To find a salon near you,
              visit http://www.regissalons.com/ and look for the pink ribbon.

  WHY         Nearly 40,000 women will die from breast cancer in 2004*.
              Every year, thousands of Regis stylists continue their fight
              against breast cancer by participating in the October Clip for
              the Cure. Regis Salons stylists across the U.S. and Canada
              volunteer their time and expertise to give more than 10,000
              haircuts in one day as part of Clip for the Cure. Over the
              last 14 years, Regis stylists have cut and styled over 350,000
              heads of hair to raise $4.5 million to benefit breast cancer
              research.

  BENEFITS    The Regis Foundation for Breast Cancer Research will
              distribute the money raised from Clip for the Cure to benefit
              research in the U.S. and Canada.

              About the Regis Foundation for Breast Cancer Research
              Founded by Anita Kunin, a breast cancer survivor and the wife
              of Regis Corporation Vice Chairman Myron Kunin, the Regis
              Foundation provides support for early diagnosis, prevention,
              treatment and cure. This year, in a unique funding agreement
              with the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund, the Regis
              Foundation will bring together researchers from all over the
              world to reshape breast cancer clinical trials and identify
              new models for faster results. The Foundation has also
              sponsored or is currently sponsoring research programs through
              the Mayo Clinic, the University of Minnesota, the Susan B.
              Komen Foundation and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.


  About Regis


Regis Salons are owned by Regis Corporation, a Fortune 1000 company and the
largest owner, operator and franchisor of hair and retail product salons and
beauty schools in the world.  As of June 30, 2004, the Company owned or
franchised 10,162 salons and beauty schools operating under concepts such as
Supercuts, Jean Louis David, Vidal Sassoon, Regis Salons, MasterCuts, Trade
Secret, SmartStyle and Cost Cutters. These salons are located in the United
States and in ten other countries throughout North America and Europe.

Regis Corporation is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  The Company's
common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RGS.

For more information about Regis Corporation, visit the company's website at
http://www.regiscorp.com/ .

* According to the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation 

DATASOURCE: Regis Corporation



CONTACT: Janis Chamoun of Regis Corporation, [phone], cell,

[phone],  ; or Susan Evans of Evans Larson

Communications, [phone], 



Web site: http://www.regissalons.com/

http://www.regiscorp.com/ 

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