Dame Anita Roddick and The Body Shop: Getting Started The daughter of Italian immigrants born and raised in the UK, Anita Perella began developing her legendary work ethic and keen business sense at an early age as she and her siblings worked tirelessly in her parent’s café as children. It was very common in those days for immigrant children to labor as hard as (if not harder) than their adult counterparts and Anita was no exception. She was a hard worker but also garnered a reputation for being
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Anita Roddick created the body shop in 1976 with the objective of opening an environmentally conscious cosmetic store. Today, the Body Shop (BS) has grown from being a single “hippie” store in England to a multinational company with over 2265 stores in 50 countries enjoying sales of £820,000 in 2006/2007 period. (mintel 2006) People say that “one person cannot make a difference” but Anita Roddick proved it wrong by sticking to here ideals and ideas of doing business. This extract from the Body Shop’s
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UNIVERZITA MATEJA BELA V BANSKEJ BYSTRICI FACULTY OF ECONOMICS MARKET ING MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS THE BODY SHOP BRAND AUDIT Final Project Zuzana Gáliková Kristína Masaryková Course: Brand Value Management 2015/ 2016 Contents 1. ANALYSIS OF THE BODY SHOP .................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................
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Words: 1586 Explain the relevance of the Marketing Concept to the 21st Century business of your choice? This essay will explain the relevance of the Marketing Concept to the 21st century business the Body Shop International plc. As well this will observe how Anita Roddick successfully adapted marketing concept to the Body Shop by creating satisfied happy customers and company goal achievement. There have been a growing number of companies over the years which influenced the increasing density
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