<Tr> <Th> Number of employees </Th> <Td> 17,000 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Official website </Td> </Tr> <P> The Body Shop International Limited, trading as The Body Shop, is a British cosmetics, skin care and perfume company that was founded in 1976 by Dame Anita Roddick . It currently has a range of 1,000 products which it sells in over 3,049 owned and franchised stores internationally in 66 countries . The company is based in East Croydon and Littlehampton, West Sussex . </P> <P> The company is owned by Brazilian cosmetics company Natura . The company had been owned by the French cosmetics company L'Oréal between 2006 and 2017 . In June 2017, L'Oréal agreed to sell the company to Natura for £ 880 million . The deal was approved in September 2017 . </P>

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