Anita Roddick Dies
10 September 2007, 09:02 PM
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10 September 2007, 09:06 PM
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sad news, she made major inroads into the way the retail market and the high street is today, she shook up the idea that women cant run successful business and she made it a no brainer for millions of husbands and boyfriends what to buy at xmas !!
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11 September 2007, 01:22 AM
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Met her for a day tour of Body Shop HQ in about 1991. What an amazing woman. We were both students and won one of those 'complete in no more than 12 words' competitions. Picked up in a limo from home, flown first class to Gatwick, limoed to Body Shop HQ and then she spent the entire day with us. I think she was worth something like 300 million at the time, but she spent the entire day talking about recycling plastic and fair trade. I don't think I had heard tell of either of them before. She also had a very powerful persona. As she would open the doors through to another massive factory area, every single person would look her way. She also gave my wife the tip of a lifetime. Rub your entire body in cocoa butter every day while you are pregnant and you wont get stretch marks.... it worked (and the rubbing in was good fun as well) At the end of the day she offered us a choice. We could have the first class treatment on the way home, or we could take a taxi and fly economy and she would donate 10 times the difference to some African village. (As students living on 20 quid a week I had no other choice.... first class all the way.... nah - only joking - we took the taxi and about two months later she sent us a letter from Africe with a picture of the hut and the well that our budget return home had paid for)
16 years down the line I still can't throw plastic in the rubbish
16 years down the line I still can't throw plastic in the rubbish
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i got told off once for wearing a leather jacket in Body Shop in Basildon (years ago)
never went back there. (i was only getting my mum a pressie too)
respect to her achievments though!!! RIP
never went back there. (i was only getting my mum a pressie too)
respect to her achievments though!!! RIP
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