Anita Roddick
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New concept store in central London is attempt to return to roots of founder Anita Roddick
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Cosmetics giant readies to offload ethical beauty chain after decade of decline as private equity firms and South Korean conglomerate look to buy
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At 25, Hugh Grosvenor has inherited his family title and a £9.3bn fortune – but while it sounds enviable, it will present the new duke with serious challenges
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Jeremy Schwartz has a corporate CV but is keen to reconnect the company, now owned by L’Oréal, with its principles
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Other lives: Founder and editor-in chief of Positive News, which focuses on the good things happening in the world
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Anya Hindmarch, who was inspired by Margaret Thatcher, launched her first handbag venture when she was 19 years old
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Sixty volume Dictionary of National Biography adds 216 Britons who departed in 2007, including Deedes, Coren, Sherrin and Melly
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Anita Roddick tried to imagine what the world would be like if beauty were the central plank of the government's manifesto. What a fantastic idea.
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Among Anita Roddick's many enthusiasms was her garden, the perfect backdrop to her collection of contemporary sculpture. In one of her final interviews before she died last week, she told Elspeth Thompson why green was not only her philosophy, but also her favourite colour
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The Brighton Argus is championing a move to place a blue plaque on the site of Anita Roddick's original Body Shop, which she opened in 1976. The paper discovered that a city council rule dictates that somebody must be dead for five years before a plaque can be erected. But there is overwhelming local support for the rule to be revoked. (Via Argus)
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Catherine Bennett Scores more virtuous business people are ready to carry on where Anita Roddick left off. It is unclear, however, who will take over one of her less celebrated personal crusades: to save women from the beauty industry.
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Obituary: Pioneering green entrepreneur who used the profits of her ethical beauty business to campaign for a better world.
L’Oréal to sell Body Shop to Brazil's Natura in €1bn deal