Speakers

Anita Roddick
The Body Shop

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Anita Roddick started The Body Shop in 1976 to create a livelihood for herself and her two daughters, while her husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. She had no training or experience and her only business acumen was Gordon�s advice to take sales of �300 a week.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught her that business is not financial science, it�s about trading: buying and selling. It�s about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

Now 30+ years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2,045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones.

Anita Roddick spoke for the Australian Businesswomen's Network in 2000. 700+ people filled the sold-out auditorium in Sydney. Sadly, Anita passed away recently. Her work and the impact that she had on so many people, will not be forgotten. We are blessed to have had the opportunity to work with her.