Full list of The Body Shop stores that remain OPEN as the chain closes another 75 branches
THE Body Shop is pulling down the shutters on a further 75 stores after calling in administrators, but more than 100 will remain open for now.
The cosmetics, skin care and perfume chain went bankrupt last month and has since closed seven branches.
On Thursday, the retailer said another 75 stores would close over the next four to six weeks, in a major blow to shoppers.
It’s not all doom and gloom though, as 116 will keep their doors open and trading.
Branches in Aberdeen, Coventry, Manchester and London will continue to welcome customers.
The full list of locations that remain open is:
- Aberdeen
- Ashford exhaust
- Basingstoke
- Bath
- Victoria Square in Belfast
- Birmingham New St.
- Birmingham Arena
- Blue water
- Bracknell Lexicon
- Bradford Broadway
- Braintree exhaust
- Brent Cross
- Bridgend exhaust
- Brighton
- Bristol Cabot Circus
- Broadgate
- Bromley
- Bury St. Edmonds
- Cannock exhaust
- Cardiff St David’s
- Castleford Outlet
- Canterbury Whitefriars
- Chelmsford
- Cheltenham
- Chesire Oaks Outlet
- Chester Foregate Street
- Chesterfield
- Chichester
- Clarks Village outlet
- Colchester
- Coventry
- Crawley County Shopping Center
- Cribbs Causeway
- Dalton Park Outlet
- Derby Intu
- Doncaster Lakeside Outlet
- Dudley
- Dundee
- Dunfermline
- Ealing
- East Midlands outlet
- Oostbourne
- Edinburgh St James
- Enfield
- Fleetwood Outlet
- Foyle side
- Glasgow St Enoch
- Gloucester
- Gretna exhaust
- Guildford-Hoofdstraat
- Gunwharf exhaust
- Harrogate
- Eg
- Hatveld
- Hereford Commercial St
- Hounslow Convention Centre
- Icon at O2 Outlet
- Inverness
- Kingston Upon Thames
- Lancaster
- Leamington Spa
- Leeds Bridge
- Leicester New Shires
- Lincoln Waterfront
- Liverpool One
- Livingston exhaust
- Llandudno
- London bridge
- Lowry exhaust
- Virgo Stone
- Manchester Arndale Centre
- Manchester Royal ex
- Meadowhall High St
- Metro Center Platinum Mall
- Milton Keynes
- Newcastle Eldon Square
- Nottingham Bridlesmith Gate
- Oxford Street Soho
- Oxford Westgate
- Pool
- Preston
- Reading
- Romford
- Rushden Lakes
- Shrewsbury
- Skipton
- Solihull
- Southampton Westkade
- Zuideinde
- Spalding
- St Albans
- Stains
- Stockport
- Stratford City Westfield
- Sunderland
- Sutton
- Swindon outlet
- Talke Hanley Outlet
- Taunton
- Thurrock
- Trafford Park
- Truro
- Tunbridge Wells Royal Victoria Place
- Uxbridge Market Square
- Warrington
- Watford
- Wembley outlet
- White Town Westfield
- Whiteley village
- Wimbledon
- Winchester
- Windsor
- Worchester
- Worth
- York Coppergate Walk
- York Depot
It comes after The Body Shop called in administrators on February 13, putting its portfolio of then almost 200 stores at risk of closure.
When a company goes bankrupt, all control is transferred to an appointed administrator, whose job is to prevent the company from being wound up.
If that fails, the administrator pays as much of a company’s debts as possible from its assets.
On February 20, FRP confirmed that seven The Body Shop stores would close with immediate effect, with more to follow.
It was announced Thursday that 75 would close within the next four to six weeks.
FRP said the closures would help The Body Shop brand secure a “long-term sustainable future”.
The closure of 75 stores will result in 489 employees losing their jobs, in addition to the 270 who will be made redundant at The Body Shop’s head office.
The Body Shop Ambassador scheme, replacing the Avon-style The Body Shop at Home service, has also been discontinued after launching on just January 12.
It comes after The Body Shop’s previous owners, Natura & Co, sold the UK arm to Aurelius in a £207 million deal last November.
But last month The Body Shop’s German arm fell into administration and the month before that its businesses in mainland Europe and parts of Asia were sold off.
The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon in Brighton.
It wanted to differentiate itself from other beauty retailers by focusing on ethically sourced and natural-based ingredients.
The brand joined the L’Oréal group in 2006, before being bought by Natura and Co in 2017.
But despite the beauty industry booming, The Body Shop saw sales fall by 24.3% in 2022.
Who was Body Shop founder Anita Roddick?
Dame Anita Roddick, born 23 October 1942, was a British businesswoman, human rights campaigner and environmentalist.
Throughout her life, Anita was best known as the founder of the Body Shop, a cosmetics company that produces and sells natural beauty products.
Anita opened her first body shop in Brighton in 1976.
The brand started as a small store that provided high-quality skin care products in refilled bottles, in the belief that the company could have a positive impact.
Following this, the Body Shop grew into a global retail company serving more than 30 million customers worldwide.
An avid campaigner, Anita has been involved in activism for environmental and social issues, such as involvement with Greenpeace and The Big Issue.
In addition, the late entrepreneur founded Children on the Edge in 1990, a charity organization that helps underprivileged children in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia.
In 2007, Anita, who also worked with her husband Gordan, sold the company to L’Oréal but still played an active role in the company.
French firm L’Oreal paid £625 million for the company, netting Anita and her husband Gordon more than £100 million for their 18 percent stake in the company.
In September 2007, Dame Anita Roddick died aged 64 from a brain haemorrhage after being admitted to St Richard’s Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex.
Her husband Gordon and her two daughters, Sam and Justine, were by her side.
Prior to her death, Anita had revealed that she had been diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 2004.
The late founder’s illness was first discovered during a routine blood test for a life insurance policy.
She had been living with the disease for more than 30 years before it was discovered – by which time she was suffering from cirrhosis of the liver.
In 2008, a year after her death, Anita’s will revealed that she had given away all her £51 million to charity and the rest to taxes.
And slow sales around Christmas reportedly prompted a plan to appoint experts to restructure the ailing retailer.
The Sun has conducted a deep investigation into what went wrong at the beloved chain.
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