Sport Clips Haircuts in Mays Landing to “Help A Hero” through Nationwide Campaign

Local sports-themed hair care provider challenges team members and clients to make
scholarships for veterans possible

Mays Landing, NJ (October 14, 2013)
– Beginning today, Sport Clips at 310 Hamilton Commons in Mays Landing will
join the more than 1,100 locations across the country in a single mission - to
raise $575,000 for the company’s annual “Help A Hero” fundraising campaign,
benefiting the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Since 2007, the Help A Hero program
has supported the VFW’s Operation Uplink™ “Free
Call Days”, making more than 2 million calls home possible for deployed and
hospitalized U.S. service members. In its seventh year, the program will expand its focus to offer scholarships to veterans
through the VFW’s Sport
Clips Help A Hero Scholarship Program. Each scholarship will provide up
to $5,000 of assistance to veterans who are pursuing an education at
post-secondary institutions, including trade schools.

Donations to Help A Hero will be collected in-store through
November 11, Veterans Day. In addition, Sport Clips will hold “The Biggest
Haircut Day of the Year” on Veterans Day, when each store will donate a dollar
from every haircut service to the VFW-administered scholarship program.

“As a small business owner, I’m proud I can join this national
effort to help our nation’s heroes through these scholarships,” says Margie
Reale, Sport Clips owner. “Sport Clips and our clients across the country have
donated almost $2 million over the past six years to support our service
members during deployment, so I’m glad we can continue to support them as they
return home and transition into civilian careers.”

Reale’s store will also raise funds through an in store
stylist contest running from October 14th through Veterans’ Day and
a contest among local high schools competing to win their choice of placement
of their school’s logo within Sport Clips running from October 25th
through Veterans Day. Reale’s Mays Landing store will also provide free
haircuts to active-duty military and veterans on Veterans Day, November 11.

“As U.S. service members return from deployments by the
thousands, it’s encouraging to see active support coming from companies like
Sport Clips,” said VFW Commander-in-Chief Bill Thien. “This scholarship program
is an important addition to the troop-support offerings the VFW provides, and
through it, we look forward to helping many service members succeed in the next
chapter of their lives.”

Sport Clips is the official haircutter of the VFW, and its
Help A Hero campaign is just one of the many ways it supports active-duty
military and veterans. To find out more, visit your local Sport Clips or SportClips.com.

About Sport
Clips Haircuts

Sport Clips Haircuts is headquartered in Georgetown, Texas
and was established in 1995 by founder and CEO Gordon Logan. The sports-themed
haircutting franchise, which specializes in haircuts for men and boys, is
ranked by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the top 20 “Fastest-Growing
Franchises,” and in the top 10 percent of the “Franchise 500.” Sport Clips is
the “Official Haircutter” of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), offers
veterans preferential pricing on haircuts and franchises, and was named as one
of the “Top Franchises for Veterans” by Franchise Business Review. Our “Help A
Hero” program has raised almost $2 million to help deployed and hospitalized
U.S. service members call home through the VFW’s Operation Uplink. Sport Clips
is a proud sponsor of Joe Gibbs Racing’s NASCAR drivers Denny Hamlin and
Elliott Sadler, and partners with numerous NCAA and professional sports teams.
To learn more about Sport Clips, visit SportClips.com.

About The Veterans of Foreign Wars

The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is a nonprofit veterans’
service organization composed of combat veterans and eligible military service
members from the active, Guard and Reserve forces. Founded in 1899 and
chartered by Congress in 1936, the VFW is the nation's largest organization of
war veterans and its oldest major veterans’ organization. With nearly 2 million
VFW and Auxiliary members located in more than 7,000 Posts worldwide, “NO
ONE DOES MORE FOR VETERANS.” The VFW and its Auxiliaries are dedicated to
veterans’ service, legislative advocacy, and military and community service
programs worldwide. For more information or to join, visit our website at www.vfw.org.