Anita Roddick

I've always been interested in why some people are successful and others, who appear to try just as hard, aren't.Success, of course, means different things to different people but, for the purpose of this post, I'm initially talking about business success.What I have noticed, over the years, is that the truly successful are helped along the way by coincidences and by following leads placed before them. In other words they follow the signs and accept the help offered. Whereas many ignore the...Read Full Story

Oscar winner Emma Thompson will play the role of a prostitute in a shocking viral video on sex trafficking.The actress portrays a prostitute who is trafficked into the country and forced to sleep with around 40 men per day, in a bid to underline the plight of thousands of women.The video depicts the unfortunate fate of an estimated 4,000 women and girls trafficked into the UK each year and forced into prostitution.The video is an honest endeavor to pressure the Government into approving the...Read Full Story

continued from Part 1 Anita Roddick Died September 10, 2007When the first Body Shop finally opened the only real guideline was that the business needed to take £300 ($600) a week to survive. The first day's trading on the 23rd of March, 1976 took £130 ($260).Some of the following weeks' figures fell short of the required £300 so Sunday trading was introduced. Anita Roddick also went out in the evenings to talk to institutions, schools and so on with the idea of hopefully selling a few more...Read Full Story

“Why waste a container when you can refill it? And why buy more of something than you can use?” - Anita Roddick, 1942-2007 If you haven’t heard of Anita Roddick, listen up. Anita founded popular green beauty store The Body Shop and campaigned for eco-friendly practices in the cosmetics industry and beyond. The Body Shop was one of the first cosmetics companies ever to prohibit the use of ingredients tested on animals and to promote fair trade with third world countries. Anita received the...Read Full Story

Anita Roddick with Princess Diana, England, 1986 It is with profound sadness that the EA reports the passing this past week of a notable and distinguished woman and wonderfully dynamic aesthete. Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop and Britain’s leading female entrepreneur, whose cruelty-free cosmetics and environmentally sensitive packaging helped change the worldwide skin-care industry, died of a brain hemorrhage Monday at St. Richard’s Hospital in Chichester, England. She was 64...Read Full Story

I thought that today I'd write about Anita Roddick the British entrepreneur, of Body Shop fame, who died last night.Though not about blogging it's interesting to look at the beginnings of successful businesses. Last year, for example, Body Shop was sold to L'Oreal for £652 million (about $1300 million) but when Anita started out things were very different.Anita Roddick's StoryWhen Anita Roddick set up her first shop in Brighton in 1976 she didn't want to change the world and she didn't even...Read Full Story

This past Monday the world lost a great entrepreneur and an even more incredible human being. Dame Anita Roddick founder of the Body Shop was a shining example of not only what makes an incredible entrepreneur and sales person, but also a tremendous humanitarian. She was Social Entrepreneur before the concept was even in vogue. Dame Anita was a crusader who understood that the combination of passion, persuasion, and persistance created an incredible force for change. Anita remained forever...Read Full Story

I was shocked and disappointed this evening to hear of the unexpected death of Dame Anita Roddick (64) who created The Body Shop. She died of a brain hemorrhage after collapsing at her family home yesterday.The news was announced about 10 minutes ago before me writing this.Dame Roddick had been interviewed in last weekend papers about how happy she was with the sale of Body Shop to L'Oreal despite people accusing her of selling out her values. She was happy as she was working within L'Oreal...Read Full Story

For the next couple of months, or some undetermined period, we will have, as you can see at the top of the right column on this screen-page, a small memorial to Anita Roddick. She challenged all of us is to consider our business, of 1 or 1,0001 employees, a force for positive, broad-based social change, while also contributing to traditional capitalist growth through investable profits and job creation. The right thing is also the profitable thing—a message and method to which I, as well...Read Full Story

Anita Roddick, activist, entrepreneur, visionary and founder of the Body Shop, passed away Monday. I was so saddened to hear the news. What a full and inspiring life she's led!She's important to me because she's a huge part of me launching De-Stress Essentials last year. I came across her book, Business As Unusual, and it moved me to action. Anita made many contributions... to the environment (sustainable organic body care), human rights, animal rights, self-esteem in women, community trade...Read Full Story