Some of chain’s 200 UK stores expected to shut following weak trading over Christmas and January
The Body Shop, the skincare and cosmetics retailer founded by the campaigner Anita Roddick in the 1970s, is set to appoint administrators in a move likely to result in lost jobs and shop closures.
The pan-European private equity investor Aurelius bought the company six weeks before Christmas but said trading over the festive period and early January had been weak.
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