The Body Shop Canada will close nearly a third of its stores and end online sales as it seeks creditor protection, the Canadian subsidiary of the U.K. beauty and cosmetics shop announced Friday.
A court filing showed the company owes more than $3.3 million to unsecured creditors and about $16,400 to secured creditors.
The company did not say how many workers would lose their jobs as a result of the store closures in cities including Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon and Saint John.
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A hypnotist, go-go dancers, and what I hope was an enticing drink special. Add in some Grand Guignol-style gore and you've got yourself a come-to-life Herschell Gordon Lewis movie. As for Mona Lisa, I'm not sure if the ad copy is referencing the famed painting (and if so, why? . . .) or a featured burlesque act, but either way, it sounds like a good time had by all at The Body Shop in Tucson, 1967.
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Хорошей косметики много не бывает 🥰
Маски мне все очень понравились, они действительно работают и я не жалею, что гребла их целыми упаковками.
А тонер для лица и средство для корней волос это просто любовь 🩷 Обязательно куплю ещё когда закончится.
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‘The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits,’ said Milton Friedman back in 1970, and the mainstream business world willingly believed him. But Anita Roddick had a different take on that. In 1976, before the words to say it had been found, she set out to create a business that was socially and environmentally regenerative by design. Opening The Body Shop in the British seaside town of Brighton, she sold natural plant-based cosmetics (never tested on animals) in refillable bottles and recycled boxes (why throw away when you can use again?) while paying a fair price to the communities worldwide that supplied cocoa butter, brazil nut oil and dried herbs. As production expanded, the business began to recycle its wastewater for using in its products and was an early investor in wind power. Meanwhile, company profits went to The Body Shop Foundation, which gave them to social and environmental causes. In all, a pretty generous enterprise. Roddick's motivation? ‘I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community;’ she later explained. ‘If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?’
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A business that is built on a living purpose may have strong foundations, but without a source of finance that is aligned with its values it is unlikely to survive and thrive. Regenerative enterprise needs the support of financial partners seeking to invest long-term in generating multiple kinds of value—human, social, ecological, cultural and physical—along with a fair financial return. But current finance culture is still narrowly focused on driving short-term financial value, such as through share buybacks or increasing dividends instead.
Anita Roddick certainly found this out the hard way. When the Body Shop first issued shares in 1986, she quickly encountered the clash between her regenerative-spirited enterprise and the narrow demands of shareholder finance. ‘One of the biggest mistakes I made was to go public and on the stock market,’ she recalled a decade later. ‘I think there's a fascism attached to financial institutions, which only look at a very unimaginative bottom line. Profit is the law of business: that has to be considered, but not at the expense of human rights, environmental standards and community.’ Roddick's frustrations no doubt resonate with many like-minded entrepreneurs. Because whether or not a regenerative enterprise can deliver on its living purpose depends in good part on how it is financed.
-Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist
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Christmas Day Absorica Update
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Honourable mention to honeymania which I would literally kill for if they would bring it back for me
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Jenny Driggers in The Body Shop (1972)
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Перед тем как ехать в магазин за новым косметосом я решила запостить свой предыдущий хаул из Тиджей Макс.
Сыворотку с коллагеном ещё юзаю (внезапно мне упаковки так надолго хватило, я её покупала в конце сентября и она ещё не кончилась) и крем вокруг глаз тоже даже не близится к концу. Все остальное давно истратила и забыла.
Не могу выделить что-то из того, что закончила, вроде норм, но второй раз не взяла бы
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Have you smelled this perfume?
While the older version pictured above no longer exists, Strawberry from The Body Shop has spawned an entire collection of hair and body products that smell like sweet berries. Have you smelled it?
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xkcd Bracket
The Body Shop. Cosmetics and skincare store
Bath and Body Works. American retail store chain that sells soaps, lotions, fragrances, and candles.
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