Tag: Anita Roddick

  • Embodying Values in Business

    Embodying Values in Business

      Dame Anita Lucia Roddick founded The Body Shop out of a desire to make ends meet in 1976. Her husband had left for the Americas for two years to ride a horse from Buenos Aires to New York. You can still find some interviews she’s given online. Listening to her talk, she sounds like…

  • The Body Shop did not Sell Only Lipstick

    The Body Shop did not Sell Only Lipstick

    The Body Shop sold you lipstick, you bought something much bigger — you bought an ideal. That is the subject of this week's FC Expert Blog post. Do you want to know why I liked Anita Roddick so much? In her I saw a kindred spirit. She was a true entrepreneur at heart. She took…