Lush Retail

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Lush Retail Limited

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legal form Public limited company
founding 1995
Seat Poole , UK
management Mark Constantine
Number of employees 24,000
sales ₤ 574 million
Branch Cosmetics
Website www.lush.com

Lush [ 'lʌʃ ] is a company headquartered in Poole , UK , that manufactures cosmetics such as soap and shower gel and sells them in its own chain of stores. In 2015, the company operated 936 stores worldwide and sold £ 574 million worth of products .

history

Mark and Mo Constantine and Elizabeth Weir, later co-founders of Lush , built the company Constantine and Weir in 1976 , which from 1978 onwards became one of the most important suppliers for The Body Shop . In the early 1990s, The Body Shop bought up their recipes for £ 6 million and made the products themselves. With the capital, Cosmetics to Go was founded in 1988 , a mail order business for cosmetics that had to file for bankruptcy a few years later. In 1995 Lush opened its first store in Poole in Dorset , southern England . Of the 936 branches opened up to 2016, 106 (03/2016) are in the United Kingdom and 44 (03/2016) in Germany. In addition to the main plant in Poole, there are also production facilities in Düsseldorf , from where the branches in the Benelux countries, Germany, France, Sweden and Switzerland are served, as well as in other countries such as Australia, Brazil, Japan, Canada and Croatia.

Products

Lush advertises its products with the slogan fresh handmade cosmestics (German "fresh handmade cosmetics"). Characteristic are the open, circular soap blocks, from which pieces are cut like a wheel of cheese and charged according to weight. The interior should be based on a London cheese shop and vegetable shops ( slate boards as price tags, fruit boxes). Another characteristic is the fragrance of the open products.

Environment and animal welfare

Lush markets itself as an ethical brand , i.e. a brand that observes ethical principles; it supports environmental activists like Seeds for Change and Guerrilla Gardeners . Lush says it gives 2% of its profits to non-profit organizations.

For the solid shampoos, massage bars, body butter, etc., suitably shaped blank aluminum cans with the Lush logo embossed are sold, which should make further packaging superfluous.

criticism

In 2007, Lush was criticized for the high pressure to perform under which employees have to work. The pressure is built up, for example, by strict sales guidelines and turnover rankings. Some Lush employees and former employees from German branches also criticize degrading sales practices, intimidation and a sect-like climate. In addition, the company repeatedly crosses borders. In the UK, however, Lush was ranked 50th on the Sunday Times' 2008 list of the 100 best places to work. In February 2020, the daily made serious allegations about the working conditions that German Lush employees in Düsseldorf were exposed to.

Web links

Commons : Lush (company)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lush couple with a shed load of ideas . theguardian.com and timesonline.co.uk.Retrieved July 25, 2008.
  2. ↑ lushie.com. Retrieved June 24, 2009.
  3. ↑ theguardian.com Good to animals, tough to employees . sueddeutsche.de; Retrieved July 25, 2008
  4. ↑ lush-shop.de ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lush-shop.de
  5. ^ Adrian Schulz: Soap manufacturer Lush as an employer: secretly crying in the tub . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 4, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed November 25, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Lush creates 250 new jobs in Düsseldorf rp-online.de; Retrieved December 5, 2017
  7. ↑ lush.co.uk.Retrieved July 25, 2008.
  8. ↑ The look of a Lush shop was partly inspired by the London cheese shop Neal's Yard. Soap is sold in wedges that do indeed look like cheese, priced by weight and wrapped in greaseproof paper .
  9. ↑ Brands can be recognized by many things […]. With Lush cosmetics it is the smell .
  10. ↑ Guerrilla giveaway . theguardian.com; Retrieved July 25, 2008
  11. ↑ The company says it gives around 2% of its profits to charity . theguardian.com
  12. ↑ sueddeutsche.de
  13. ↑ Dubious practices of an eco-cosmetic chain . ( Memento from August 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Financial Times Deutschland ; Retrieved November 5, 2010
  14. ↑ timesonline.co.uk accessed on July 25 of 2008.
  15. ^ Adrian Schulz: Working conditions at Lush: In terms of cosmetic results . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 17, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed February 18, 2020]).