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"The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away."
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"I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in."

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"At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that."

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"But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth."
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