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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sarah Butler

The Body Shop to cut 300 head office jobs and almost half of UK stores could close

A customer walks into a The Body Shop store in central London
The Body Shop entered administration last week. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA/Rex

The Body Shop is to cut 300 jobs at its head office while almost half of its 198 stores in the UK could close with the loss of hundreds more jobs as the business battles for survival.

Administrators told staff on Tuesday that seven stores would close immediately, with more set to follow, while numbers at its offices in London and Littlehampton in West Sussex were being cut by 40% to 400. It is not clear if jobs at the group’s warehouse, also in Littlehampton, will be affected.

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