The retailer will close the sites over the next four to six weeks, but will keep 116 UK shops open.
The Body Shop will close 75 shops in the UK over the coming weeks and cut 489 jobs, according to the firm overseeing its restructuring.
Shops will be closed over the next four to six weeks. FRP Advisory, which is managing the restructuring, said it would "support all impacted staff with claims to the Redundancy Payments Service". Dame Anita and her husband Gordon sold the business to French beauty giant L'Oreal in 2006, much to the chagrin of some loyal followers who viewed the French beauty giant's business at odds with The Body Shop's ethos.
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