Dame Anita Roddick, the entrepreneur who founded The Body Shop and built it into an alternative to the mainstream cosmetics industry, died on Monday of a brain haemorrhage, aged 64.

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Dame Anita, who viewed the sale of the retail chain to L’Oréal, the world’s leading cosmetics maker, as an opportunity to change big business from the inside, had been suffering from cirrhosis of the liver. She had developed the condition as a result of contracting hepatitis C during a blood transfusion when she was giving birth to her youngest daughter in 1971. She did not realise she was carrying the virus until more than three decades later.