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Anita Roddick
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, The Body Shop International Limited, a cosmetics company producing and retailing natural beauty products which shaped ethical consumerism. The company was one of the first to prohibit the use of products being tested on animals in some of its product…
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business · British businesswoman and activist (1942–2007) · businessperson · women's rights activist · founder · entrepreneur · also Anita Roddick, Dame Anita Lucia Roddick, Dame Anita Roddick, Anita Lucia Roddick, Anita Lucia Perella, Roddick
Born 23 October 1942 · Died 10 September 2007 · Q237211
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2015· 1 entry
The Charity Commission agreed to cease to interfere with charities' right to fund CAGE, if they wished, following a judicial review which heard testimony that a British cabinet minister and US intelligence had applied pr
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2007· 5 entries
Wall Street Journal: Anita Roddick
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Obituary: Anita Roddick, 64, Body Shop Founder
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LAist: Anita Roddick, a 'Green' Business Pioneer
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The Washington Post: Anita Roddick, 64; Founder Of Activist Cosmetics Firm
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Died 2007-09-10.
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2004· 2 entries
NPR: Anita Roddick's Book of 'Numbers'
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Roddick was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis due to long-standing hepatitis C
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2003).
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2001· 1 entry
“Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”
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2000· 1 entry
“Business as Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey”
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1997· 1 entry
Roddick developed Body Shop's most successful campaign, creating Ruby, the size 16 doll, who was thought to bear a passing resemblance to Barbie
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the Open University presented by The Open University (1995).
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1993· 1 entry
Won Audubon Medal (1993).
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1991· 1 entry
“Body and Soul: Profits With Principles -- The Amazing Success Story of Anita Roddick and the Body Shop”
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1990· 2 entries
Roddick founded Children on the Edge (COTE), in response to her visits to Romanian orphanages
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Founded Children on the Edge, a charitable organisation which helps disadvantaged children in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1988).
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1984· 1 entry
The first sponsorship, made possible by the money generated by the IPO, was for Greenpeace posters in 1985
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1976· 1 entry
With the goal of earning an income for herself and her two daughters while her husband was away in South America
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1970· 1 entry
And had three stores when Roddick visited the Bay Area in the early 1970s
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1942· 1 entry
Born 1942-10-23.
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