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THE BODY SHOP stores in Ireland are set to close from the 29th of this month, staff have been told.
Staff have received email communications informing them that Irish stores will be closing. In the email, they were advised that a store may remain open for the purpose of selling off stock, but this was not guaranteed.
At this point in time staff have said they are unclear on information regarding redundancies, and that they have engaged with Siptu the union.
It is understood that staff have requested formal notice of their employment being terminated, but so far this request has gone unanswered.
It is further understood that staff have been told to trade as normal.
Last week in a bid to become financially stable, the Body Shop UK went into administration. It has since announced the closure of nearly half of its 198 stores, leaving over thousands of staff members facing redundancy.
Administrators FRP last week said that the Body Shop remains guided by its ambition to be a “modern, dynamic beauty brand”.
They said that the business is becoming more “nimble” to achieve financial stability.
The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon.
The first Irish store was opened in Dublin in 1981, and the next store to open was located in Cork.
Recently, the private equity firm Aurelius, which took control of the UK business. The firm paid out £207m to buy the store from the Brazilian cosmetics company Natura and Co.
One Irish employee working in a Body Shop store said that staff are at a loss as to what the next steps will be, and that communications between the new owners of the business and staff have been “unclear”.
The staff member said that while workers have received an email saying stores will close, they have not had any formal notice of their employment being terminated.
There are seven The Body Shop stores in Ireland.
The Journal has attempted to contact the owners of these stores for comment.
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Well this sounds like the Debenhams situation all over again told by email your job is gone with little else. Still dealing with the fall out from that 4 years later in the courts. I hope the staff are treated better than we the former Debenhams staff have been.
It’s too expensive to do business in this country anymore. This is only the beginning.
@Max Cooper: while I totally agree with you, unfortunately this has nothing to do with it, the UK went into administration last week, closed 7 stores with no notice yesterday with a further 100 to go, mass redundancies in head office with no notice either yesterday. It’s deeply fishy
@Gregory C Donoghue:
Your next account should be called “Walter Mitty”
lol
@Max Cooper: Or….maybe people have had enough of bolloxology nature sourced facial oatmeal crapology?
@Max Cooper: And we did it to ourselves.It will be some miracle if we get that EU Anti Money Laundering HQ today, but I suspect we won’t, based on our rapacious rates and charges, lack of accommodation compounded by widespread , unchecked anti social behaviour.
SF seem to be oblivious to the enormity of the task they face as a party that has never held power and the usual FFG suspects can only worsen the situation.
It’s a pity we can’t base an economy on Rugby and Rowing. We seem to be useless at everything else
The government are setting up a committee to look into it.
@noel donohue: something Smells here
@noel donohue: They’re not nor is there a need.
Debenhams, Argos, the Body Shop. Who’s next.
@Alex Marquis: Probably Halfords.
@Alex Marquis: Next
@Gerard Carey: Halfords are ok they have a lot of MOT centres in the UK plus service centres, tyre shops, parts stores and bicycles and all the extra stuff that goes with them.
@David McGrath: thats good
@Alex Marquis: Iceland also
Go Woke, Go Broke.
When the majority of your customers are women it probably helps if you can define what one is.
@Ollie McGlinchey: grow up.
Get your bargain price closing down sale new body now.
About 10 years, the Body Shop had a fabulous ginger body lotion/handcream for the Christmas period. It was the best one I ever used and the scent was beautiful. They never continued it . That was the problem. They didn’t move with the times re new scents, and the plastics didn’t disappear and compete with Lush on the environment issues.
What’s going on? First Argos, then M&S announce store closures and now The Body Shop.
Ah, the smell in front of their stores…
Bring back Anita Roddick – oh wait …
Can they not build the bloody thing to Stephen’s Green and talk about Charlemont as it is being progressed
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