The Body Shop Riverwalk

The Body Shop Riverwalk is a branch of the British cosmetics and toiletries retailer The Body Shop at Riverwalk Shopping Centre in Gaborone, Botswana. The Body Shop's own store page gives the shop's address as Unit 41, Riverwalk Shopping Centre, Gaborone, and its trading hours as 09:00 to 21:00 every day of the week. The store locator on the company's South African website lists it as the only Body Shop store in Botswana. The Body Shop was founded by Anita Roddick in Brighton, England, in March 1976. Its range covers skin care, body care such as butters and scrubs, hair care, fragrance and make-up, and it buys some ingredients, including marula oil and shea butter, through its Community Trade programme. The company was owned by L'Oréal from 2006 to 2017 and by Natura &Co from 2017 to 2023. After a short period under the investment group Aurelius, its UK business entered administration in February 2024, and the brand was bought by the Auréa group later that year. Gaborone is the capital and largest city of Botswana, with 246,325 residents at the 2022 census, about a tenth of the national population. It was laid out as a planned town from 1964, ahead of independence in 1966, and lies within 15 km of the South African border, with the settlement of Tlokweng across the river to the east. The store's telephone numbers, as The Body Shop's store page gives them, are +267 370 0614 and +267 370 0615.

Riverwalk Shopping Centre, Unit 41, Gaborone, Botswana
Gaborone

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