Dame Anita Lucia Roddick, DBE (23 October 1942 – 10 September 2007) was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company producing and retailing natural beauty products that shaped ethical consumerism. The company was one of the first to prohibit the use of ingredients tested on animals and one of the first to promote fair trade with third world countries.
Roddick was involved in activism and campaigning for environmental and social issues, including involvement with Greenpeace and The Big Issue. In 1990, Roddick founded Children on the Edge, a charitable organisation which helps disadvantaged children in eastern Europe and Asia.
In 2004, Roddick was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis due to long-standing hepatitis C. After she revealed this to the media in February 2007, she promoted the work of the Hepatitis C Trust, and campaigned to increase awareness of the disease.
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."
"There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it."
"a revolution in kindness"
"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."
"I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in."
"I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs"
"To succeed you have to believe in something with such"
"The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you."
"Be nice, for everyone that you meet is fighting a harder battle"
"If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?"
"I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market."
I'm a snow plough, I must now plow on, I'm a snow plough, I'm a settlers son I'm a storm cloud, rain myself all over the place I'm a storm cloud, gonna wipe that smile right off your face There must be one place left in the world Where the mountains meet the sea There must be one place left in the world Where the water's real and clean I'm a landslide, I'm a downhill run, I'm a landslide, open season's just begun There must be one place left in the world Where the skin says it can breathe There gotta be one place left in the world It's a solitude of distance and relief There gotta be one place left in the world I'm a short fuse, I'm a slow blues I'm a landslide humming, I'm a downhill running There must be one place left in the world, where we can be (Moginie/Hirst/Rotsey/Garrett)
Its head office staff were previously split between offices in London and Littlehampton, West Sussex, its long-term base set up by late founder Anita Roddick ... The company, founded by Roddick in 1976, ...
... skincare products are not tested on animals and developed through fair relationships with farmers and suppliers – values that led late environmental activist Anita Roddick to found the brand in 1976.
Sky Sports pundit Graeme Souness lives close by ... Miss McGlinn, whose late father Ian McGlinn lent Anita Roddick £4,000 to set up the Body Shop and sold his share of the company in 2006 for £146m, bought the house in 2008 for £9.4m ... Read More. EXCLUSIVE.
... the tragedy, which won the support of more than 250 MPs and peers, as well as the daughter of the late Body Shop founder, Dame Anita Roddick, who was one of thousands of victims to lose their lives.
The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by Anita Roddick and has become a staple of the British high street, but it has been under various owners since she sold it to French cosmetics giant L'Oreal in 2006.
A spokesperson for Auréa said ...The Body Shop, which was founded by Anita Roddick in 1976 fell into administration in February just three months after its then new owner Aurelius had bought it for £207m. At the time it owned creditors £267m ... Auréa added.
Kyle, the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, was able to attend university only thanks to a dramatic intervention by Anita Roddick, the founder of Body Shop. Roddick had urged ...
Read more ... Founded in 1976 by Anita Roddick, The Body Shop went into administration in February after its owner, Aurelius, which had bought the company for £207m three months earlier, said it could not revive the business’s fortunes ... Jatania said ... .
The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by Dame Anita Roddick, trading out of a small shop in Brighton originally and made its name selling cruelty-free fairtrade products.
The business had employed about 1,500 store workers before the administration. The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by Dame Anita Roddick, trading out of a small shop in Brighton originally and made its name selling cruelty-free fairtrade products ... .
The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by Anita Roddick, a business exec who was less about button-up life and more about campaigns for rain forests, women’s rights and against animal testing.
• Peter Kyle. It was 5am ...Kyle, who was a protégé of Anita Roddick, the Body Shop founder, and an aid worker before going into politics, has an emotional intelligence lacking in many MPs ... In Romania with Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, in 1994.
Set up in 1976 by the late Dame Anita Roddick, the company became famous for its no-nonsense ethical trading ethos and refusal to test products on animals ...The Body Shop was sold to L'Oreal for £675million by founder Dame Anita Roddick in 2006.
over 10 years ago ...The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon as one of the first companies to promote so-called ethical consumerism, focusing on ethically produced cosmetics and skincare products. .
