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Bright Eyes: Complete Eye Care for Beautiful Peepers

At last, Spring’s on the horizon, the days are getting longer and it’s time to come out of hibernation. But burning the candle at both ends can play havoc with your complexion, not least your oh-so-delicate eye area, leaving you with dark circles, dry, puffy skin and more of those fine lines than you’d like. You might have been up half the...

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Body Shop sold to L'Oréal

L'Oréal has bid 300 pence per share for The Body Shop, valuing the company at £642 million. The British company was founded in 1976 by Anita and Gordon Roddick who will maintain an 18 percent stake in the company. Anita will stay on as consultant for the company, advising L'Oréal on community trade issues. "It's not selling out," said Anita...

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Body Shop Launches Loyalty Scheme

The Body Shop is attempting to return the UK business to a growth footing this year with the launch of a loyalty scheme Love Your Body early next month. The beauty specialist is applying the repositioning strategy that reinvigorated its US business to the UK chain, where like-for-like sales fell 13 per cent last year. A spokesman said the US...