Alberto-Culver Co., a marketer and retailer of personal care products, said today it would acquire Armstrong-McCall, a beauty products distributor, in order to extend the geographic reach of its professional products distribution unit. Armstrong-McCall, a major distributor of Matrix brand products, has operations across a large portion of the southern United States and Mexico. Its annual sales are about $100 million.Alberto-Culver said the deal was expected to add about $75 million in sales in t...