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Constantine: L'Oréal was the arch-enemy of cruelty-free cosmetics
“L'Oreal had always been the arch enemy because of testing on animals. They represented those who wished to test, body shop represented those that didn't wish to test.”
The Body Shop went public without owning its own product formulas
“They went public. They were now a listed company, but they didn't own the product they were selling. I owned it.”
Mark Constantine: Anita Roddick copied The Body Shop from a US store
“It was a totally different company that inspired Anita Roddick to copy it and do it in Brighton.”
Gordon Roddick called taking The Body Shop public his biggest mistake
“You know, they'd gone public, and Gordon Roddick says still today that that was the biggest mistake he made, because he was no longer in control of it, and things that he thought were important wasn't what the-”
Constantine: Early on, Anita Roddick preferred plastic packaging over glass
“She hated the glass jars. She wanted plastic jars because She wasn't so struck on the environment at that time.”
Constantine: Lush and Body Shop management bid £450M for Body Shop
“The management could raise about 360 million themselves to buy the body shop off of the strength of the body shop's figures. I could add my business to that and get up to about four 50, something like that.”
Moving Burt's Bees to North Carolina Drastically Cut Manufacturing Costs
“Revlon was about 15 miles away. The Body Shop was about 30 or 40 miles away, and there were a lot of pharmaceutical companies that used a lot of the same glass jars and caps and that sort of thing. So our expenses went way down. We were able to hire people who…”
Marla Beck: Anita Roddick bought The Body Shop name from a Berkeley store
“She actually bought the name from this first location in Berkeley.”
Burt's Bees cut costs by relocating near Revlon and Body Shop
“Revlon was about 15 miles away. The body shop was about 30 or 40 miles away, and there were a lot of pharmaceutical companies that use a lot of the same glass jars and caps and that sort of thing. So our expenses went way down. We were able to hire people who …”