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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.”
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.”
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: Co-founder Mo Constantine invented the first bath bomb in a shed
“So then my wife went out into the shed and came back with the first bath bomb. But it was just a small disk, and we called them aqua sizzlers.”