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/ 11 September 2007

Body Shop founder Anita Roddick dies

Anita Roddick, founder of beauty retailer the Body Shop and one of Britain’s best known businesswomen, has died at the age of 64 after suffering a major brain haemorrhage, her family said on Monday. The daughter of Italian immigrants, Roddick saw her business mushroom into an empire of more than 2 000 stores serving more than 77-million customers.