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Body Shop (Firm)

LC control no.n 91027264
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingBody Shop (Firm)
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Variant(s)Body Shop International (Firm)
Nunglen Limited
See alsoFounder: Roddick, Anita, 1942-2007
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Beginning date1976
Associated countryGreat Britain England
Associated placeBrighton (England)
LocatedLittlehampton (England)
Field of activityCosmetics Cosmetics industry
AffiliationL'Oréal (Firm) Natura (Firm)
Special noteNot the same as The Body Shop Limited [motor vehicle industry], incorporated in England & Wales on 12 March 1969 under Company number 00949785.
Found inRoddick, A. Body & soul, 1991: CIP pref. (The Body Shop) data sheet (created by businesswoman, environmentalist Anita Roddick in England, America, and 36 other countries)
Its Annual report and accounts 1991: title page (The Body Shop) page 1 (registered office: The Body Shop International PLC, Hawthorn Road, Littlehampton, West Sussex BN17 7LR) page 6 (the Group originates, produces and sells naturally-based skin and hair care products and related items through its own shops and franchised outlets) ; 1993: page 1 (registered address: Watersmead, Littlehampton, West Sussex BN17 6LS)
Wikipedia, viewed 19 April 2018 (The Body Shop; The Body Shop International Limited, trading as The Body Shop; founded in Brighton in March 1976 by Dame Anita Roddick; based in Littlehampton, West Sussex; owned by the French cosmetics company L'Oréal between 2006 and 2017, then by Brazilian cosmetics company Natura from September 2017)
Wikipedia, viewed 19 April 2018 (Anita Roddick; founder of The Body Shop, a British cosmetics company producing and retailing natural beauty products that shaped ethical consumerism; Roddick copied the name, concept and original brochures from the original Body Shop [housed in a car repairs garage] in Berkeley, California and which had three stores when Roddick visited the Bay Area in the early 1970s; in 1992, when Roddick decided to expand her multinational corporation into the United States, she bought the rights to the Body Shop name; the original Body Shop, founded in 1970, renamed itself Body Time, and is still operating)
Companies House Beta website, viewed 19 April 2018: under Company number 01284170 (incorporated on 1 November 1976 as Nunglen Limited; name changed to The Body Shop International Limited on 17 June 1982; re-registered as The Body Shop International PLC on 16 March 1984, then The Body Shop International Limited on 15 January 2018)
Associated languageeng