Aveda to sell Aveda Institutes in Minneapolis, New York

The Aveda Institute in Minneapolis, one of the brand’s more prominent operations from its days as a Twin Cities-based beauty empire, will be sold to a distributor that already runs many of Aveda’s beauty schools. 

The Star Tribune reports on the move by Neill Corp. of Hammond, La., which will take over the Aveda Insitute located on Central Avenue, just across the river from downtown Minneapolis, as well the Aveda Institute in the SoHo neighborhood of New York. The two facilities, which provide…