The Body Shop to close 75 more stores in WEEKS after collapsing into administration - check the full list

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The Body Shop has announced the closure 75 more stores in the upcoming weeks after it fell into administration.

The shops will close in a ‘phased process’ over the next four to six weeks, the joint administrators of the brand have decided.

This move will result in 489 staff redundancies as individual outlets pull the shutters down for good.

Those living in places towns and cities as Blackpool, Hull, Loughborough, Northampton and Swansea will now have to travel to buy goods or order them online.

The beauty retailer said 116 stores will remain open, as the company looks into shifting its focusing on website sales and ‘wholesale strategies’.

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The Body Shop has announced the closure 75 more stores in the upcoming weeks after going into administration

This move will result in 489 staff redundancies as individual outlets are closed down

A notice placed outside a store in London asking customers to buy their products online

The cosmetics, skin care, and perfume chain has already slammed the doors shut on seven stores in London, Bristol and Warwickshire.

The beloved chain currently employs 10,000 people across 3,000 stores it operates in more than 70 countries around the world – with a further 12,000 staff working in franchises.

READ MORE: Body Shop closes SEVEN stores across the UK in shock move less than a week after announcing administration plans 

The Body Shop said that only UK stores are affected by this change and that its international shops in other parts of Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia remain stable.

Tony Wright, Joint Administrator, said: ‘In taking swift action to right-size The Body Shop UK store portfolio, we have stabilised the business and are providing the best opportunity for this iconic brand to have a long-term, sustainable future.

‘The UK business continues to trade in administration, and we remain fully focused on exploring all options to take the business forward.’

As well as threatening thousands of jobs, the news could spell trouble for the many suppliers of Body Shop goods across the globe, who have been sourced carefully by the ethically minded firm over decades.

The troubled chain – which has faced stiff competition from the likes of millennial and Gen Z-friendly bath bomb purveyors Lush and luxury brand Rituals – had also just shut down its Avon-style home business division, The Body Shop At Home.

The chain, founded by the late Dame Anita Roddick who passed away in 2007, was sold by Brazilian cosmetics chain Natura & Co to Aurelius Group in November.

The £207 million deal saw the investment group take on the chain’s 250 British stores. But they called in insolvency administrators just weeks after it bought the chain.

Ms Roddick was an avid campaigner for environmental and social issues, including involvement with Greenpeace and The Big Issue.

In 1990, she founded a charity called Children on the Edge, which helped disadvantaged children in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia.

Businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner Anita Roddick, who founded the company

Founder of The Body Shop, Anita Roddick stands outside one of her stores in 1985

A Body Shop store is pictured in 1991

Dame Anita Roddick is pictured stocking a shelf in a Body Shop store in 2001

She founded The Body shop to earn an income for her and her two daughters while her husband was away in South America. Upon her husband’s return, he joined the business.

By 2004, The Body Shop has 1980 stores, more than 77 million customers and was voted the second most-trusted brand in the UK – ad the 28th top brand in the world.

But that same year, Roddick was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis due to hepatitis C. She didn’t reveal this until 2007.

She tragically died of an acute brain haemorrhage in September 2007. Earlier, she had sworn to leave her fortune to charities rather than her families and friends – a promise she remained true to.

The full list of The Body Shop stores that are closing down 

Aylesbury

Banbury

Barnstaple

Basildon

Battersea

Bedford

Beverley

Bexleyheath

Blackburn

Blackpool

Bournemouth Commercial Rd

Bolton

Brixton

Broughton Park

Bury

Camberley

Carlisle

Carmarthen

Chippenham

Cirencester

Croydon

Didcot

Durham

East Kilbride

Edinburgh Gyle Centre

Edinburgh Princes Mall

Epsom

Fareham

Farnborough

Glasgow Braehead

Glasgow Fort

Glasgow Silverburn

Glasgow Station

Grimsby

Halifax

Harlow

Hastings

Hempstead Valley

High Wycombe

Huddersfield

Hull

Ilford

Ipswich

Isle of Wight

Islington

Kendal

Kings Lynn

Leeds White Rose

Lewisham Centre

Lichfield

Loughborough

Luton

Macclesfield

Middlesbrough

Morpeth

Newton Abbot

Northampton

Oldham

Perth

Peterborough Queensgate

Portsmouth

Regent Street

Salisbury

Stafford

Stanstead Airside

Stratford Upon Avon

Swansea

Telford

Thanet

Trowbridge

Wakefield Trinity Walk

Walthamstow

Wigan

Woking

Wolverhampton

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