“ In 2017, L'Oréal offered the Body Store to Brazilian cosmetics company Natura for £880 million (€1 billion).
Aurelius. The corporate had been owned by the French
cosmetics firm L'Oréal between 2006 and 2017. In September
2017, L'Oréal sold the company to Brazilian Natura & Co for £880 million. In September 1994, Business Ethics magazine printed an investigative article
entitled "Shattered Image: Is The Physique Shop Too Good to Be True?", written by Jon Entine, on the corporate's practices.
On sixteen February 2024, just sooner or later after the UK division went
insolvent, the Body Shop Germany collapsed into administration and introduced that every one 60 shops
have been to be closed inside the coming months.
In 1991, the Body Store sued Bath & Body Works for allegedly copying its advertising and marketing, reaching a confidential out-of-court
docket settlement. An earlier Physique Shop, unaffiliated with
Anita Roddick or the Physique Store International Limited, was opened in Berkeley, California, in 1970, by Peggy Quick and Jane Saunders. ”