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Anita Roddick

Founder of The Body Shop, pioneer of ethical consumerism.

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Anita Roddick was a British businesswoman and activist who founded The Body Shop, a cosmetics company that promoted ethical consumerism.[1] She died of a stroke on 10 September 2007 at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester.[2]

Key facts and history

Roddick described herself as a "trojan horse" who could influence L'Oréal's decisions from within.[3][4] In the late 1990s, she became involved in the case of the Angola Three, men held in solitary confinement at Louisiana State Penitentiary.[5][6] She was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis from hepatitis C in 2004 and revealed this illness in February 2007.[7] She left her entire £51 million estate to charity upon her death.[2][8]

To support herself and her two daughters while her husband traveled from Buenos Aires to New York on horseback, Roddick established her initial Body Shop location in Brighton during 1976.[9][10] Her aim was to sell high-quality skincare items in containers that could be refilled, accompanied by advertising that was honest rather than exaggerated.[9] The Body Shop was acquired by L'Oréal for £652 million in March 2006.[3][4]

What the cited sources add

Jon Entine's 2002 article in The Globe and Mail reported that Roddick copied the name, concept and brochures from a Berkeley, California Body Shop that started in 1970.[11][12] The same article stated that the company had no record of charitable donations before 1986, when it gave 0.4% of pretax profits.[12] A 2006 Guardian interview quoted Roddick saying "I think it's an obscenity dying rich"[4] The BBC reported in 2007 that she contracted hepatitis C from a blood transfusion during the birth of her youngest daughter.[13]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Anita Roddick" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Dame Anita Roddick dies aged 64", BBC News, 10 September 2007; Gray, "Dame Anita Roddick", The Times, 11 September 2007 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Anita Roddick" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Dame Anita Roddick dies aged 64", BBC News, 10 September 2007 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Anita Roddick" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cahalane, "'I believe they are honourable and the work they do is honourable': interview with Roddick", Business Guardian, 3 November 2006 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Cahalane, "'I believe they are honourable and the work they do is honourable': interview with Roddick", Business Guardian, 3 November 2006. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  5. Wikipedia, "Anita Roddick" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: James, "37 years of solitary confinement: the Angola three", The Guardian, 10 March 2010 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. James, "37 years of solitary confinement: the Angola three", The Guardian, 10 March 2010. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  7. Wikipedia, "Anita Roddick" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Chris Greenwood, "Roddick reveals she has hepatitis C "and it's a bit of a bummer"", The Scotsman, 15 February 2007; "Celebrity Health – Anita Roddick", BBC, 17 July 2007; Chris Greenwood, "Roddick reveals she has hepatitis C "and it's a bit of a bummer"", The Scotsman, 15 February 2007 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Anita Roddick" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Moore, "Anita Roddick's will reveals she donated entire £51m fortune to charity", Telegraph.co.uk (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Anita Roddick" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Anita Roddick, Body and Soul, 1991. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. "Celebrity Health – Anita Roddick", BBC, 17 July 2007. facts only, no text reused. news.bbc.co.uk
  11. Wikipedia, "Anita Roddick" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jon Entine, "body flop", The Globe and Mail, 31 May 2002; "About Us"; Jon Entine, "body flop", The Globe and Mail, 31 May 2002; "Made in Berkeley: The Original Body Shop", Berkeley Daily Planet, February 3, 2004; Sciacca, "Body Time, formerly The Body Shop, to shut down after five decades", East Bay Times, 26 April 2018 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  12. Jon Entine, "body flop", The Globe and Mail, 31 May 2002. facts only, no text reused. theglobeandmail.com
  13. "Dame Anita Roddick dies aged 64", BBC News, 10 September 2007. facts only, no text reused. news.bbc.co.uk

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Anita Roddick (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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