Dame Anita Roddick started The Body Shop in 1976 in Brighton, England. Twenty-eight years on, The Body Shop – one of the most widely recognized and respected brands in the world - has 2000 stores in 51 different countries. What distinguishes The Body Shop and Anita from other global businesses and entrepreneurs is a core dedication to community trade and human rights causes. Roddick is a key pioneer of socially responsible business, proving that commerce with a conscience is not only a moral imperative. She was named a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.

An outspoken opponent of economic globalization, Roddick is the only executive of a major global corporation who was tear-gassed in the streets of Seattle in 1999. She has written several books, including the autobiographical “Body & Soul” and “Business As Unusual,” and was editor of the popular 2001 title “Take It Personally: How To Make Conscious Choices to Change the World.” Her publishing company, Anita Roddick Books, published two titles in 2003: “A Revolution in Kindness” and “Brave Hearts, Rebel Spirits: A Spiritual Activists Handbook”, and has two new titles due for publication this Fall “Troubled Water: Saints, Sinners, Truth and Lies about the Global Water Crisis” and "Numbers.”

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