RIP Dame Anita Roddick

[Gully]

Apparently she used to have big garden parties at her house in Houghton and invite people from the factory along in a random manner to mix with the rich and famous, something that she didn't really have to do but a nice gesture to reward their loyalty.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

I work at the British Library and over the past 18 months she has dedicated many hours assisting young inventors and entrepreneurs in our Business & IP Centre on a 1-1 basis, without receiving a penny for it. Always very nice to deal with. She will be missed.

 

[wehatepalace]

Must be a case for a minute's silence at the Yeovil game?

Why ? It's very sad when anyone loses their life, especially when it's so sudden, But why exactly should we have a minutes silence at a football match ? She was hardly a staunch Albion supporter ! Dozens of local businessmen/women die each year but we don't have a minutes silence for them.

 

[Questions]

Used to come into my Circle K in Arundel. I once asked her for ID to join the video club. To be fair she didn't say 'do you know who I am'!

Stroppy and businesswoman first and foremost, plus her husband apparently played a huge part in the company's success but was campaigning for environmentally friendly and ethical sourced goods years before it became the trendy thing to do.

Must be a case for a minute's silence at the Yeovil game?

Was she a Brighton fan ?
I never saw her there.

 

[Beach Hut]

People are so quick to slag off people in business as ruthless, cold hearted etc the fact is you need some of that to get to the very top and cannot please everyone all the time.

I had a lot of time for her and as I said previously I expect many people in Littlehampton liked her as well given the jobs she provided.

 

[wehatepalace]

People are so quick to slag off people in business as ruthless, cold hearted etc the fact is you need some of that to get to the very top and cannot please everyone all the time.

I had a lot of time for her and as I said previously I expect many people in Littlehampton liked her as well given the jobs she provided.

Don't doubt it, she was well thought of and a campaigner for very worthwhile causes and she was undoubtedly one of the good people in this world but......................still can't see why we'd have a minutes silence at a football match

 

[Beach Hut]

still can't see why we'd have a minutes silence at a football match

Nor can I - no relevance whatsoever

 

[London Calling]

Unfortunately her products still condone the torture and experimentation of animals "products uses....not tested on animals in last five years".

 

[Mrs Coach]

She hated football. Refused to let her charity foundation fund any sporting ventures whatsoever (even local ones) and regularly accused the directors of being 'boring' - that they should fund more 'way out' ventures.
I was there the day she told the directors she wasn't going to leave them her money after all, because they were 'boring'.

Still a real character though and did a lot of good business in Sussex. RIP Anita.

 

[Mrs Coach]

Apparently she used to have big garden parties at her house in Houghton and invite people from the factory along in a random manner to mix with the rich and famous, something that she didn't really have to do but a nice gesture to reward their loyalty.

It's true she held the parties, but there weren't really 'rich and famous' people there, apart from her - she didn't really like 'celebs'. She opened up her gardens and had parties for the locals and their kids. She still wanted to be 'one of the many' although her circumstances meant that she couldn't.

She was probably the most electrifying woman I've ever met, and she never ever wasted one second of her life. She was always 100 percent in the moment, even if it was driving her grandchildren round in her beaten up car. I was disappointed that she sold to L'oreal although, in part, the decision wasn't all hers. She tried for years, while I knew her, to sell to an 'ethical' French company, but they could never raise the money. Unfortunately the good guys never really can, against the size of the corporate giants.

At events, Princess Coach would play with her grandson - and I said to Anita, 'any chance of an arranged marriage?' lol! Her husband Gordon was a nice fella too, and far more grounded than she was. Terrible stutter so he was always happy for her to take on the media, but he was ever supportive of her in the background.

 

[wigman]

as an employee of the body shop have met anita and gordon many , many times.very sad news. rip

 

[e77]

Nor can I - no relevance whatsoever

In today's rent-a-grief culture everyone seems to get a minute's silence. Might be nice if someone successful from the same area as the club got one.

 

[Clapham Old Mug]

I once heard her say that she worked all weekend to get the first Body Shop open and arived on Monday morning to find the owners of the shops on either side standing on their doorsteps looking worried. She said they were both undertakers.