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Hub You - Body Shop Acquisition Polarizes Corporate Reformists
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So it stands to figure that activists are split in their reaction to The Body Shop’s decision to be acquired by L’Oreal.
In one camp are the pragmatists who accept the relationship between The Body Shop’s social welfare ideals and the profit-driven gluttony of shopping malls where the company sells its products.
They’re willing to take Roddick at her word when she says that she’s “done what any founder ought to do. I have done all I can to protect the future for thousands of employees and community trade suppliers.... I do not believe that L’Oreal will compromise the ethics of The Body Shop. That is after all what they are paying for and they are too intelligent to mess with our DNA.”
Even Brooke Shelby Biggs of activist site CorpWatch thinks the acquisition could be a good thing. “Maybe Roddick is right,” she writes. “Maybe a vastly expanded market will be good for the communities from which The Body Shop sources its products.”
The Body Shop is, after all, a consumer business that sells stuff nobody absolutely needs. So, she figures, “if you’re going to buy Body Butter anyway, it’s good to know you’re helping women in Ghana feed their families at the same time.”
In the other camp are the outraged ideologues, violently shaken from their convenient rationalization that a $732 million, publicly traded corporation existed primarily to validate their anticorporate beliefs. The UK-based Ethical Consumer threatens to lower The Body Shop’s “ethical rating,” adding the company to a list of activist group boycotts that already includes Microsoft, Bacardi, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmoliv
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In one camp are the pragmatists who accept the relationship between The Body Shop’s social welfare ideals and the profit-driven gluttony of shopping malls where the company sells its products.
They’re willing to take Roddick at her word when she says that she’s “done what any founder ought to do. I have done all I can to protect the future for thousands of employees and community trade suppliers.... I do not believe that L’Oreal will compromise the ethics of The Body Shop. That is after all what they are paying for and they are too intelligent to mess with our DNA.”
Even Brooke Shelby Biggs of activist site CorpWatch thinks the acquisition could be a good thing. “Maybe Roddick is right,” she writes. “Maybe a vastly expanded market will be good for the communities from which The Body Shop sources its products.”
The Body Shop is, after all, a consumer business that sells stuff nobody absolutely needs. So, she figures, “if you’re going to buy Body Butter anyway, it’s good to know you’re helping women in Ghana feed their families at the same time.”
In the other camp are the outraged ideologues, violently shaken from their convenient rationalization that a $732 million, publicly traded corporation existed primarily to validate their anticorporate beliefs. The UK-based Ethical Consumer threatens to lower The Body Shop’s “ethical rating,” adding the company to a list of activist group boycotts that already includes Microsoft, Bacardi, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmoliv
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Even Brooke Shelby Biggs of activist site CorpWatch thinks the acquisition could be a good thing. “Maybe Roddick is right,” she writes. “Maybe a vastly expanded market will be good for the communities from which The Body Shop sources its products.”
The Body Shop is, after all, a consumer business that sells stuff nobody absolutely needs. So, she figures, “if you’re going to buy Body Butter anyway, it’s good to know you’re helping women in Ghana feed their families at the same time.”
In the other camp are the outraged ideologues, violently shaken from their convenient rationalization that a $732 million, publicly traded corporation existed primarily to validate their anticorporate beliefs. The UK-based Ethical Consumer threatens to lower The Body Shop’s “ethical rating,” adding the company to a list of activist group boycotts that already includes Microsoft, Bacardi, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmoliv
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The Body Shop is, after all, a consumer business that sells stuff nobody absolutely needs. So, she figures, “if you’re going to buy Body Butter anyway, it’s good to know you’re helping women in Ghana feed their families at the same time.”
In the other camp are the outraged ideologues, violently shaken from their convenient rationalization that a $732 million, publicly traded corporation existed primarily to validate their anticorporate beliefs. The UK-based Ethical Consumer threatens to lower The Body Shop’s “ethical rating,” adding the company to a list of activist group boycotts that already includes Microsoft, Bacardi, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmoliv
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Will this stop The Body Shop from leveraging L’Oreal’s resources to expand as a global, socially responsible brand? Nope. But the villianizing and boycotts will further the polarization between corporate activists who want to get results by working within the market economy – and those who dream of destroying it altogether.
“Is The Body Shop window-dressing, or is it an admission that doing good can actually be good for business?” writes Biggs. “Guess it depends on how cynical you are. Personally, I get irked at progressives who attack other progressives for not being pure enough, for questioning any motives that don’t keep us marginalized. Seems to me there’s a place for open minds and optimism. At least until they are proven to be misplaced.”
Amen to that.
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