THE BODY SHOP The Body Shop was founded in 1976 in Brighton (UK) by Anita Roddick.it now has now more than It changed the image of “Glamour and Beauty”. It brought about use of natural “exotic” products to cleanse and polish the skin & hair. Started new movements by refusing animal testing and being environmentally friendly “The business of business should not just be about money it should be about responsibility. It should be about public good‚ not private greed.” Anita Roddick. Core Values
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History of The Body Shop International In the early to mid 90’s‚ the revenue growth for The Body Shop was at least 20% each year. The Body Shop was able to grow at a fast pace early in the decade because of the lack of competition. Over the course of the decade‚ competition grew fierce‚ and‚ by the end of the decade‚ revenue growth fell to 8%. Another reason for the slow growth in the late 90’s was the over expansion in the previous years. The Body Shop was in almost every mall in America (and
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Case Analysis: The Body Shop Since its inception in the 1970s‚ The Body Shop has experienced phenomenal growth. Specifically‚ revenue was growing at a rate of more than 20% per year. In the 1990s‚ the previously experienced revenue growth began to decline rapidly. There were numerous reasons for the steady decline in revenue growth. The two most important of these were a loss of brand image and severe competition from other skin and hair-care companies. The Body Shop expanded too quickly
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Assumptions We are going to show a three years forecast for The Body Shop International; it consists of three main objectives: • To enhance The Body Shop brand through a focused product strategy and increased investments in stores; • To achieve operational efficiencies in the supply chain by reducing product and inventory costs; • To reinforce the stakeholders culture. We extrapolate each account using the percentage of sales of year 2001 to have a first look on the evolution
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The Body Shop International In this case‚ the key is to understand and study the conditions and circumstances of how revenue grew by 13 percent and the decline in pretax profit of 21 percent in 2001. The underlying factor that caused this‚ would be the company’s lack of forecasting‚ which would be the usage of the financial modeling. The financial model gives a better forecast prior to the project as well as a good monitor during the project. For the forecast‚ we only had financial statements from
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rightsizing of this cost can be properly planned through natural attrition and redefinition of job scopes that need key union and association buy in for success. This has always been done as a top down approach but in all fairness‚engagement at the shop floor needs to be intensified as it is the personnel at this level that will impact the bottom line in terms of efficiency‚ productivity and effective implementation. 2. BASED ON THE EFFORTS OF PAST MANAGEMENT‚ MAS SHOULD
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a. Where in the value chain is the organisation creating value for their customers? Primary: Value chain activity Yes/No How does The Body Shop create value for the customer? Inbound Logistics No Not imperative to creating value to the customer. Operations Yes Operations and technological development are covered in the The Body Shops stance on animal testing (one of their values). Testing comes under operations and technological development as they have had to think of innovative ways to test
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IntroductionThe Body Shop a globally recognised brand name in the natural cosmetic and toiletries industry‚ founded by Dame Anita Roddick‚ in the year 1976. Dame Anita began Body Shop to create a living for herself and her family (About Dame Anita Roddick‚ n.d.). The Body Shop which began as a small store in England today has over 2400 stores across 61 countries in the world with over 1200 products (The Body Shop website). The Body Shop also has a strong value and ethics based business concept‚ which
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AGENDA PART 1: Introduction 1.1 At first glance..........................................................................................2 1.2 Body Shop brief history.............................................................................2 PART 2: Main analysis 2.1. Body Shop 2.1.1. Philosophy‚ Progress‚ Innovations…………………………………………………………….…3 2.1.2. The U.S. Market challenge...................................................................4 2.1.3. S.W.O.T. Analysis
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The Body Shop International plc is a global manufacturer and retailer of naturally inspired‚ ethically produced cosmetics products. Founded in the UK in 1976 by Dame Anita Roddick‚ The Body Shop now has over 2‚400 stores in 61 countries‚ with a range of over 1‚200 products. Body Shop has a strict no animal testing policy. In fact The Body Shop is the first international cosmetics brand to be recognized under the Humane Cosmetics Standard for our Against Animal Testing policy. The Body Shop
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