The Body Shop To Shut Almost Half Its Stores
The administrators of Body Shop have announced the closure of a further 75 shops and said that 489 people will lose their jobs.
The high street skincare and cosmetics chain tumbled into administration earlier this month.
Administrators from FRP Advisory said the latest closures will take place over the next four to six weeks as part of a heavy restructuring aimed at preserving the brand.
The closures listed below come on top of seven others announced last week.
Four of the seven shops that shut last week were in London: Surrey Quays, Oxford StreetBond Street, Canary Wharf and Cheapside.
The other three were in Nuneaton in Warwickshire, Ashford Town Centre in Kent, Bristol Queens Road in Bristol.
The list of the next 75 shops that will close:
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Banbury, Oxfordshire
Barnstaple, Devon
Basildon, Essex
Battersea, Greater London
Bedford, Bedfordshire
Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire
Bexleyheath, Greater London
Blackburn, Lancashire
Blackpool, Lancashire
Bournemouth Commercial Rd, Dorset
Bolton, Greater Manchester
Brixton, Greater London
Broughton Park, Cheshire
Bury, Greater Manchester
Camberley, Surrey
Carlisle, Cumbria
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire
Chippenham, Wiltshire
Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Croydon, Greater London
Didcot, Oxfordshire
Durham, County Durham
East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire
Edinburgh Gyle Centre, Midlothian
Edinburgh Princes Mall, Midlothian
Epsom, Surrey
Fareham, Hampshire
Farnborough, Hampshire
Glasgow Braehead, Lanarkshire
Glasgow Fort, Lanarkshire
Glasgow Silverburn, Lanarkshire
Glasgow Station, Lanarkshire
Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Harlow, Essex
Hastings, East Sussex
Hempstead Valley, Kent
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
Ilford, Greater London
Ipswich, Suffolk
Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight
Islington, Greater London
Kendal, Cumbria
Kings Lynn, Norfolk
Leeds White Rose, West Yorkshire
Lewisham Centre, Greater London
Lichfield, Staffordshire
Loughborough, Leicestershire
Luton, Bedfordshire
Macclesfield, Cheshire
Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire
Morpeth, Northumberland
Newton Abbot, Devon
Northampton, Northamptonshire
Oldham, Greater Manchester
Perth, Perthshire
Peterborough Queensgate, Cambridgeshire
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Regent Street, Greater London
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Stafford, Staffordshire
Stansted Airside, Essex
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Swansea, Glamorganshire
Telford, Shropshire
Thanet, Kent
Trowbridge, Wiltshire
Wakefield Trinity Walk, West Yorkshire
Walthamstow, Greater London
Wigan, Greater Manchester
Woking, Surrey
Wolverhampton, West Midlands
The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon as one of the first companies to promote so-called ethical consumerism, focusing on ethically produced cosmetics and skincare products.
The dramatic overhaul comes only weeks after European private equity firm Aurelius took control of the business.
The new owners, who specialise in buying and turning around troubled firms, secured a £207 million deal in November to buy The Body Shop from Brazilian cosmetics giant Natura & Co.
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