The Body Shop has announced that it will close 75 of its 200 plus shops in the UK over the coming weeks and cut 489 jobs.

Despite the massive nationwide closures, The Body Shop will keep 116 UK stores open, including its Ealing branch.

Stores will be close over the next four to six weeks says FRP Advisory, which is managing the restructuring.

It said it would: "support all impacted staff with claims to the Redundancy Payments Service.

FRP Advisory's Tony Wright commented: "In taking swift action to right-size The Body Shop UK store portfolio, we have stabilised the business.

"We remain fully focused on exploring all options to take the business forward."

UK shops due to close:

• Aylesbury
• Banbury
• Barnstaple
• Basildon
• Battersea
• Bedford
• Beverley
• Bexleyheath
• Blackburn
• Blackpool
• Bournemouth Commercial Rd
• Bolton
• Brixton
• Broughton Park
• Bury
• Camberley
• Carlisle
• Carmarthen
• Chippenham
• Cirencester
• Croydon
• Didcot
• Durham
• East Kilbride
• Edinburgh Gyle Centre
• Edinburgh Princes Mall
• Epsom
• Fareham
• Farnborough
• Glasgow Braehead
• Glasgow Fort
• Glasgow Silverburn
• Glasgow Station
• Grimsby
• Halifax
• Harlow
• Hastings
• Hempstead Valley
• High Wycombe
• Huddersfield
• Hull
• Ilford
• Ipswich
• Isle of Wight
• Islington
• Kendal
• Kings Lynn
• Leeds White Rose
• Lewisham Centre
• Lichfield
• Loughborough
• Luton
• Macclesfield
• Middlesbrough
• Morpeth
• Newton Abbot
• Northampton
• Oldham
• Perth
• Peterborough Queensgate
• Portsmouth
• Regent Street
• Salisbury
• Stafford
• Stanstead Airside
• Stratford Upon Avon
• Swansea
• Telford
• Thanet
• Trowbridge
• Wakefield Trinity Walk
• Walthamstow
• Wigan
• Woking
• Wolverhampton

Aurelius, the German company that acquired The Body Shop for £207 million in November, announced last week its inability to revitalise the business following poor trading during the Christmas and New Year period.

The company appointed the accounting firm FRP Advisory as the administrator, sparking concerns about the future of the business founded by the late environmental and human rights advocate Anita Roddick in 1976.

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