News about Freddie Laker

And now, it's impossible to tell The Body Shop from its charismatic founder. Anita Roddick was omnipotent, never off a soapbox or television; rather, a feminist businesswoman speaking in the same buccaneering breath as Richard Branson or Freddie Laker. It was her belief that business could be a force for good, and she would zig-zag the globe, procuring Brazilian nuts and hemp from indigenous peoples to make her own concoctions; protecting the world while also saving your complexion; and all the while campaigning in earnest for worthy causes. Her greatest activism was to save the rainforest and increase trade links with the developing world. Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Ogoni people from Nigeria, the Kayapo tribe of Brazil, and Boys Town in Kerala, India, she supported. In every Body Shop outlet, you'll often have to battle a select line of slogans, banners, and Roddick's worthy obsessions.