updated Fri. October 4, 2024
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The Telegraph India
April 23, 2018
He added, “Since the inception of The Body Shop in India in 2006, we continue to be inspired by the thoughts, ideas and ethical passion of Dame Anita Roddick (founder).” Set up in 1976, with their global head office and innovation lab in East Croydon, UK, The Body Shop has over 160 stores in India, withÃâà...
Dorset Echo
April 16, 2018
The Body Shop was founded by Dame Anita Roddick with an ethos positioned firmly against testing products on animals; controversy arose when the firm was bought for Ãâã650 million by L'Oreal in 2006, as the French cosmetics giant was known to test on animals. Last year Brazilian firm Natura, which hasÃâà...
Retail Gazette (blog)
February 6, 2018
Founded in 1976 in Brighton, England by Dame Anita Roddick, The Body Shop has grown to become a staple on high streets and in shopping centres around the world. Meanwhile, Australian beauty brand Aesop was established in 1987 and Natura completed its acquisition of the firm in 2016. Natura &CoÃâà...
Director magazine
December 29, 2017
Tony Hsieh of Zappos for his audacity and Dame Anita Roddick for her trailblazing ethical entrepreneurship. Where do you get your best ideas from? Play! We too often forget the power of relaxing, opening our minds and using our imagination. Which innovation has been crucial to your firm's growth? A newÃâà...
The Times
December 1, 2017
Set up by the late Dame Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, it has been working with the Rohingya Muslims for seven years. Successive Burmese governments have refused to accept the existence of the Rohingya as an ethnic group, claiming they were illegal migrants from Bangladesh. In fact, theÃâà...
BBC News
September 11, 2017
The new owners of UK cosmetics chain The Body Shop have said they plan to keep the legacy of founder Dame Anita Roddick alive as they look to revive the company. Brazilian group Natura bought The Body Shop from L'Oreal for an estimated 1 billion euros ($1.1bn; Ãâã880m). Co-chairman GuilhermeÃâà...
The Times
July 15, 2017
Dame Anita Roddick's daughter has broken her silence about her mother's death as a result of a contaminated blood transfusion she received while giving birth. Speaking just days after Theresa May ordered an inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal, Sam Roddick, 46, said the tragedy of her mother'sÃâà...
BBC News
June 27, 2017
The Body Shop was established in the UK in 1976 by the late Dame Anita Roddick. She and her company pioneered the manufacturing and selling of cosmetics that have not been tested on animals and which use natural ingredients. The Body Shop is now one of the world's biggest cosmetics chains withÃâà...
BBC News
February 9, 2017
The Body Shop, founded by Dame Anita Roddick in 1976, was a pioneer using natural ingredients for its beauty products when it started out. It initially thrived, expanding rapidly, and by the 1980s was one of the most well-known brands on the High Street. I remember the chain fondly from my youth, when itÃâà...
The Argus
March 29, 2016
FROM its campaign to ban animal testing to its fight for fair trade, the Body Shop has always played by its own rules. Aside from setting the agenda through its natural cosmetic products, it fought wider wars on whaling alongside Greenpeace and stood up for human rights with Amnesty International.
BBC News
September 12, 2007
Founder of ethical cosmetics firm Body Shop, Dame Anita Roddick, has died at the age of 64. Her family said in a statement she suffered "a major brain haemorrhage" at 1830 BST at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex. Her husband, Gordon, and daughters Sam and Justine were all with her.
BBC News
September 12, 2007
Founder of ethical cosmetics firm Body Shop, Dame Anita Roddick, has died at the age of 64. Her family said in a statement she suffered "a major brain haemorrhage" at 1830 BST at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex. Her husband, Gordon, and daughters Sam and Justine were all with her.
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