Ulta Announces Holiday Sales of $310.4M

Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. (the “Company”) ULTA today announced sales results for the seven-week holiday period from November 14, 2010 to January 1, 2011. This time period corresponds with the Company's holiday marketing initiatives and represents the seven full weeks beginning the week before Thanksgiving through the end of the week following Christmas. Total net sales for the seven-week holiday period were $310.4 million, an 18.4% increase from the prior year holiday period of $262.2 million. Comparable store sales for the 2010 holiday period increased 9.5%, as compared to a 7.9% increase during the same period in the prior year. Over a two year period, comparable store sales increased 17.4%.