Biography of anita roddick the body

British entrepreneur Anita Roddick (1942-2007) was the public face of the Body Shop cosmetics–store chain she founded.

Biography of anita roddick the body

Roddick, one of Britain's most successful and visible business executives, was also a strident environmental and animal–rights activist. Roddick “believed that businesses could be run ethically, with what she called ‘moral leadership,’ and still turn a profit,” Sarah Lyall wrote in the New York Times. In 2006, one year before she died, Roddick sold the Body Shop and its 2,100 stores to cosmetics giant L'Oréal for ––C625 million ($1.3 billion).

Roddick was born Anita Lucia Perilli on October 23, 1942, in Littlehampton, West Sussex, England.

She was the third of four children to Gilda and Donny Perilli, Italian immigrants who made their children work after school and on weekends in the café they owned. They divorced while Roddick was eight—Donny, according to the British Guardian newspaper, was alcoholic and prone to violence.

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