The Body Shop enters death row. The British division of the pioneering brand has gone into administrative suspension.
The future of some 2,500 employees in a network of 200 stores, a distribution center and the head office is in uncertainty. The innovative Anita Roddick opened the first The Body Shop store in 1976, in Brighton, a bohemian city on the English coast. She eventually gave up the franchise in order to extend the business throughout the United Kingdom and abroad, under the principles of fair trade and ethical management.