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Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine

Oct 5, 2020

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Are You Being Very Dynamic With Your Business?

02:34

We Don't Want to Go Public

02:35

I'm Not Surprised, Right?

02:04

Introduction

2min

Lush - The Story of the Body Shock

4min

Were You Good Student?

2min

I'm Not Going to Fight Anyone if I Can Possibly Avoid Any Failure

2min

Do You Remember What Happened?

1min

I'm a Hairdresser, and I've Done It All My Life.

2min

I'm a Hairdresser, I Was a Girlfriend, and I Met Jeff.

2min

Do You Have a Career in Hair?

2min

You Burnt Out in London?

2min

10.

I'm Not Surprised, Right?

2min

11.

I'm a Trychologist, and I've Been a Trychologist for a Long Time.

2min

12.

How Did You Meet Liz Weir?

2min

13.

The Story of the Body Shop

2min

14.

Anita Rodick's Body Shop in San Francisco

2min

15.

Hern Skin Shampoos - I Like Yours for a Thousand Two Hundred Pounds

2min

16.

2min

17.

Through Line From NPR

2min

18.

How Did You Make Hair Products?

2min

19.

How Did You Make a Million Dollars in Revenue?

2min

20.

How Did You Know How to Price Your Products?

4min

21.

You've Got a Body Shop, and You're Doing Well, but You Want to Expand?

2min

22.

You Don't Know What You Did With Your Husband

2min

23.

Anita Rodock - Is It a Clumsy Relationship?

1min

24.

The Relationship Between Anita and Riley

2min

25.

What I Wanted to Do Was to Make a Bath Bomb

2min

26.

Aqura Scissors - The Bath Bond

3min

27.

I'm a Millionaire and I Lost All of It.

2min

28.

Do You Have Anxiety About the Future?

2min

29.

The Best Investment You Ever Made, Peter Blacker

3min

30.

How Did It All Come Together?

2min

31.

The King's Road

2min

32.

The Problem Isn't Ownership, but Succession

2min

33.

We Don't Want to Go Public

3min

34.

Lush, You're a Control Freak, Right?

2min

35.

Are You Fed Up With the B S?

2min

36.

How Do You Choose Your Staff?

3min

37.

Is It Possible to Find Your Father?

2min

38.

The Encpenes Wound

2min

39.

I'm a Technical Ant Bener, I've Made the Most of Them

2min

40.

On Line Sails Have Really Boomed, and Things Are Ok.

2min

41.

Are You Being Very Dynamic With Your Business?

3min

42.

How I Built This

1min

Working at a high-end beauty salon in the south of England in the early 1970's, Mark Constantine concocted natural shampoos and conditioners in a tiny room above his kitchen, and soon met another young entrepreneur who was eager to buy his products: Anita Roddick of The Body Shop. Their partnership flourished for a while, then soured; so Mark went on to start a mail-order cosmetics business with his wife and several others. After that business went bust and Mark was nearly broke, he decided to take one more leap to launch Lush, a cosmetics shop whose distinctive soaps and bath bombs developed a passionate following. Today, Lush has about 900 stores around the world and is adapting to pressures of a pandemic economy.

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