The closure of The Body Shop makes me feel like I’m having to say goodbye to my friend Anita all over again

3 weeks, 1 day ago

Fabric and crafts retailer Joann closing all stores

Salon

Fabric and crafts retailer Joann is shutting down all of its U.S. stores, leaving cosplayers, seamstresses and small Etsy business owners in the dust. But earlier this month, Joann announced that it was shutting down 500 of its 800 locations, citing “significant and lasting challenges in the retail environment, which, coupled with our current financial position and constrained inventory levels, …

Fabric Joann

1 month, 1 week ago

Budget blamed as One of Britain's oldest department stores shuts shop after more than 140 years

Daily Mail

One of the oldest UK department store chains is shutting its last shop, blaming Budget tax and wage increases. Retail bosses said the closure of the historic store ‘illustrates the devastating impact’ of the rise in National Insurance contributions and higher minimum wage, which comes into force in April. The department store sells homeware and fashion brands including Barbour, which …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Body Shop's new British owner has $3-5 bn to fund beauty businesses

Live Mint

UK-based private equity firm Auréa Group, which rescued London-based The Body Shop last year, is in the process of deploying $3-5 billion into more beauty brands, its Indian-origin founder Mike Jatania said. Jatania, who is in India this week, added that The Body Shop was grossing $1 billion in annual sales and turning its focus on India as it sees …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

The Body Shop will relaunch Dutch operations following a recent bankruptcy

NL Times

The Body Shop, a renowned global cosmetics brand, will relaunch operations in the Netherlands, with at least five stores set to reopen under new ownership following a recent bankruptcy, according to curator Cedric de Breet. SHG Retail will assume control of The Body Shop outlets in Batavia Stad, Roermond, Roosendaal, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam’s Kinkerstraat. Under SHG’s management, The Body Shop’s …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

The Body Shop: A Sustainable Journey with Recycled Plastic

ABP News

The Body Shop's 5-year partnership with Plastics for Change (PFC) in India has been a resounding success, contributing to the reduction of plastic pollution and empowering waste pickers. The initiative has expanded from sourcing 250 metric tonnes of plastic waste in 2019 to 617 metric tonnes in 2022, with over 2,000 waste collectors engaged in the process. The Body Shop's …

Business Law Sustainability Social Change Bengaluru

8 months ago

Body Shop rescue on the cards from British cosmetics tycoon Mike Jatania

Daily Mail

The Body Shop is set to be rescued by British tycoon Mike Jatania. UK cosmetics tycoon Mike Jatania is looking to rescue the Body Shop chain which crashed into administration in February A sale is expected in the next few weeks and Jatania has started due diligence checks, according to a statement by Aurea and administrators FRP Advisory. The statement …

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1 year ago

A beauty store employee tried to stop shoplifters. Now, she’s fighting for her life

LA Times

An employee at the M Beauty store in Commerce was assaulted last week and remains hospitalized. The employee “fell to the ground headfirst causing her to lose consciousness,” the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement on last week’s incident. “It’s very heartbreaking to see that this happened to her,” said Daniel Min, who owns and runs the M …

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1 year ago

Body Shop employees fired in mass-sacking urge ministers to reform ‘exploitative’ laws

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Body Shop employees fired in a “brutal” mass-sacking have urged …

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1 year ago

The full list of Body Shop stores closing across the country

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Four of the seven shops that shut last week were in London: Surrey Quays, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

The Body Shop confirms more than 100 stores will shut for good – here’s the ones closing today

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Body Shop is set to close nearly half of …

Body Shop

1 year, 1 month ago

Best vegan beauty buys from The Body Shop 2024

The Independent

A UK-born brand founded by Dame Anita Roddick in 1976, The Body Shop was decades ahead of the Gen Z beauty game. Plus, on 3 January, it was announced The Body Shop was the world’s first beauty brand to have 100 per cent of its product formulations certified by the Vegan Society. Whether you enjoyed the iconic white musk scent …

Body Shop Products

1 year, 1 month ago

The Body Shop goes into administration putting 2,000 jobs at risk

The Independent

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1 year, 1 month ago

Ode to The Body Shop: Can the cosmetics icon that gave us White Musk survive its latest crisis?

The Independent

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1 year, 4 months ago

Body Shop sold to private equity firm Aurelius for £207 million

The Independent

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1 year, 4 months ago

‘Ozempic is exposing holes in the body positivity movement’

The Independent

Picture a fashion editor. “That’s the thing I find most thrilling,” says Kenya Hunt, who was appointed editor-in-chief at ELLE UK in 2022, making her the first Black woman to edit the title. “ told me, ‘You can go to New York and try to be a professional dancer alongside all these other things, but I don’t recommend you do …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Walmart’s head of fashion Denise Incandela talks about changing discounter’s staid image in fashion

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Walmart has been long known for its wide array of basic socks, T-shirts and pull-on pants. The Bentonville, Arkarsas-based discounter has been adding mannequins and colorful displays of its clothing, while bolstering its fashion to include casual work wear like cargo pants, jumpsuits and trendy dresses. Over the past few years, it’s brought in more than 1,000 …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Influencer slams customer service at two top bridal boutiques in extraordinary rant and claims the environment was 'hostile'

Daily Mail

One of Australia's top influencers has slammed two upmarket bridal boutiques after a failed shopping expedition to find her dream wedding dress. Em Davies, who announced her engagement to boyfriend Joel Gambin in March, visited Sydney's upmarket suburb of Paddington to visit several bridal stores late last month, but left empty handed. Queensland influencer Em Davies, 28, has slammed two …

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1 year, 8 months ago

New Look set to shut down more shops in weeks - is yours among those facing closure?

Daily Mail

Clothes seller New Look is set to close even more of its high street stores following its decision to shutter seven of its UK outlets this winter. New Look is set to close even more of its high street stores after shuttering seven this winter Which stores have closed so far? - Rhyl’s White Rose Centre - July 25 - …

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1 year, 8 months ago

San Francisco exodus continues: Century-old boutique becomes latest business to close in crime-ridden city

Daily Mail

A century-old hat boutique has become the latest casualty of the so-called 'retail apocalypse' gripping downtown San Francisco. The company has joined a host of stores shutting in San Francisco's Union Square, amid widespread crime and plummeting footfall. A sales associate at the North Beach location told the San Francisco Chronicle that store workers were mostly kept in the dark …

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2 years ago

Meet Anita Dongre, the quiet businessperson

Live Mint

"It’s like my mother used to say, ‘Yeh toh bachpan se hi ziddi hai,” laughs designer Anita Dongre when I ask her why she prefers to stay away from fashion trends. Starting in the early 1980s with two sewing machines at her Mumbai home, Dongre now has over 2,500 employees, 1,000-plus stores across 114 cities in India and abroad, including …

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2 years, 2 months ago

The Body Shop’s new make-up range is here and we were the first to try it

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Body Shop has been a UK high-street staple …

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3 years, 3 months ago

The Body Shop Christmas Joyful Hub

Hindustan Times

The Body Shop India hosted a “Joyful Hub'' to celebrate collective selfless stories of the social workers from Miracle Foundation India. The Body Shop India is also currently running a program by the name of ‘Light A Little Life’ where they aim to raise funds to provide education & healthcare for kids affected by Covid-19. Light A Little Life is …

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3 years, 3 months ago

You promised to be a conscious shopper. Then what happened?

Live Mint

It’s once again that time of the year when we would like to forget, at least for some time, about the chaos caused by the virus and indulge ourselves. And India’s fashion designers are saying “ho, ho, ho” all the way to the bank. While we definitely need the good times, especially after the news of the spread of the …

Torani Fashion Consumption

3 years, 7 months ago

Beauty is about self-expression, says The Body Shop CEO

Live Mint

"Beauty is no longer about few essential beauty items. Beauty is about self-expression," says Shriti Malhotra, the chief executive officer of The Body Shop India, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Malhotra, who credits the brand's loyal customers for the growth, says the pandemic has changed the way people look at beauty. Our digital and social media channels …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Lockdown roadmap: Which shops are open today?

The Independent

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4 years, 1 month ago

If we lose high street shopping, we lose an experience of incomparable joy

The Independent

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4 years, 5 months ago

‘Covid has made us more important than ever to the government’: The transformation of Weight Watchers

The Independent

Leaving a job after almost 20 years can be an emotional experience, but Anna Hill has never really been “a sentimental person”. I suddenly saw that there was a life outside Disney.” Recommended Weight Watchers rebrands as WW in bid to distance itself from dieting Hill joined WW at a pivotal time for the company, just a year after it …

Business Health Support Disney Hill Weight Lockdown

4 years, 6 months ago

This fashion game-changer says we’ll all be watching 3-D runway shows in the future

LA Times

Anifa Mvuemba, founder of the direct-to-consumer women’s apparel line Hanifa, didn’t set out to revolutionize the fashion industry when she had a viral 3-D runway show on Instagram this spring. “But I always wondered if it was possible to actually make them move, so that we can actually show our customers the movement of the fabrics.” Mvuemba’s May 22 show …

Fashion Runway Shows Industry Black Going Think Things

4 years, 10 months ago

Anna Wintour calls on the fashion industry to ‘rethink our values’

CNN

CNN — Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour joined Naomi Campbell for the latest episode of the British supermodel’s YouTube talk show, “No Filter with Naomi.” Speaking from her country home in Long Island on Wednesday, Wintour wore her signature sunglasses as she spoke about the impact of the pandemic on the fashion industry and its future. She told Campbell that the …

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4 years, 11 months ago

L’Oreal says people are still buying beauty products

CNN

London CNN Business — Demand for beauty products appears to be holding up even though hundreds of millions of consumers are not leaving their homes in order to combat the coronavirus pandemic. L’Oreal, the world’s largest cosmetics company, said Thursday that first quarter sales in China increased 6.4% on the same period last year, despite the country’s coronavirus shutdown, which …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus exposed the truth about the fashion industry. And it's more complicated than you'd think

The Independent

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5 years ago

The Project's Carrie Bickmore says stores will remain open during coronavirus lockdown

Daily Mail

On Tuesday night, The Project's Carrie Bickmore urged shoppers to remain calm and stop panic buying ahead of a coronavirus lockdown. The TV host said she had been in touch with supermarket chains Coles, Woolworths and IGA, who had informed her they planned to remain open. Stay cool: On Tuesday night, The Project's Carrie Bickmore urged shoppers to remain calm …

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5 years, 1 month ago

Shoppers Stop beautifully shows how love and confidence stem from within

Firstpost

Watch this beautiful video that shows how an acid attack survivor has come to love herself again on Valentine’s Day. Who better to be a testimony to this statement than the acid attack survivors; women who have been through a world of pain and yet refuse to give up. Shoppers Stop, arguably India’s largest retailer in fashion and beauty, has …

Shoppers Stop

6 years, 1 month ago

Patisserie Valerie collapse: Full list of confirmed closures as bakery chain goes into administration

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Patisserie Valerie collapsed into administration …

7 years, 1 month ago

The Taste with Vir Sanghvi: Are the shutters going down forever on legendary department stores?

Hindustan Times

Over a decade ago I was at Dickins and Jones, a famous, historic department store on London’s Regent Street when they suddenly shut off the muzak. Department stores are now routinely portrayed as great 20th Century glamour showpieces People make TV shows about them: The Paradise and Mr. Selfridge were big hits on British TV; The Magnificent Mrs. Maisel, which …

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7 years, 9 months ago

The Internet is mauling America’s malls. Is your favorite retailer closing its doors?

LA Times

Longtime Eagle Rock resident Allenby Arakielian remembers when the little mall on Colorado Boulevard was the neighborhood hot spot for shopping and dining. Last week, the parent company of Ann Taylor, Lane Bryant and other women’s clothing stores said it plans to close up to 667 locations in the next two years to slash costs. “Time really is a luxury …

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8 years, 5 months ago

Ladybro's tears shouldn't spell end of traditional stores

China Daily

A shop assistant carries away packaged goods on the closing day of Pacific Department Store's outlet in Beijing in this file photo. My "ladybro" once told me that her biggest dream was that one day she could afford everything she wanted at the landmark Pacific Department Store on Shanghai's Middle Huaihai Road. Almost any locals over 30 still recalls the …

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8 years, 5 months ago

Ladybro's tears shouldn't spell end of traditional stores

China Daily

A shop assistant carries away packaged goods on the closing day of Pacific Department Store's outlet in Beijing in this file photo. My "ladybro" once told me that her biggest dream was that one day she could afford everything she wanted at the landmark Pacific Department Store on Shanghai's Middle Huaihai Road. Almost any locals over 30 still recalls the …

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8 years, 6 months ago

We Buy A Staggering Amount Of Clothing, And Most Of It Ends Up In Landfills

Huff Post

Digital Vision via Getty Images This article is part of HuffPost’s “Reclaim” campaign, an ongoing project spotlighting the world’s waste crisis and how we can begin to solve it. Fashion is considered to be one of the most polluting industries in the world, and the 1,135 people who died in the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh …

Fashion World Clothing Waste Need Clothes Garment

9 years, 10 months ago

Followed my heart, business simply followed: fashion designer Anita Dongre on her success

Firstpost

The Anita Dongre woman is a modern urban girl who, whilst challenging convention, loves all things traditional, speaks her mind, is free spirited and adventurous. garment factory premises at Rabale, on the outskirts of the city, fashion designer Anita Dongre squeezed in some time to talk with Firstpost. It is a big shift for a Bandra girl who has lived …

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10 years, 5 months ago

How Victoria’s very posh new shop made me feel FAT, writes CLAIRE CISOTTI

Daily Mail

Gazing at myself in the changing room mirror, I was lost for words. But, in this dress, she felt she looked at least three months gone Ever since Victoria Beckham started designing clothes, I’ve longed to own one of her dresses. Victoria Beckham poses in her swish Mayfair boutique, where she says all variety of customers should feel comfortable shopping …

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11 years, 10 months ago

Factory collapse a 'wake-up call' for fashion industry

ABC

The deadly collapse of a building in Bangladesh has sparked serious questions about the fashion industry's use of sweatshops and cheap labour. I think from a fashion industry perspective it's been a major wake-up call for all people. "I think from a fashion industry perspective it's been a major wake-up call for all people. "If companies aren't disclosing to the …

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The closure of The Body Shop makes me feel like I’m having to say goodbye to my friend Anita all over again

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The Body Shop: What went wrong and what happens next?

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