{"id":11864,"date":"2024-02-22T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/whsmith-and-holland-barrett-court-ex-body-shop-employees\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:23:05","slug":"whsmith-and-holland-barrett-court-ex-body-shop-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/whsmith-and-holland-barrett-court-ex-body-shop-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"WHSmith and Holland &#038; Barrett court ex-Body Shop employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/online-workshops-list\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-496\" src=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png\" alt=\"Retail Online Training\" width=\"729\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png 729w, https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><\/p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-155093\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_1531508330-696x522.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_1531508330-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_1531508330-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_1531508330-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_1531508330-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_1531508330-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_1531508330-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_1531508330.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"WHSmith asks former The Body Shop staff to apply for roles\" title=\"WHSmith\"\/><\/div>\n<p>WHSmith and Holland &amp; Barrett are among the retailers encouraging staff affected by store closures and redundancies announced by The Body Shop to apply for current job vacancies.<\/p>\n<p>The retailers reached out on LinkedIn to employees of the ethical beauty retailer who might be impacted by the mass restructuring of the chain\u2019s UK business.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Administrators at FRP said it would be closing nearly half of The Body Shop\u2019s 198 stores and around 40% of head office jobs to \u201csupport a simplified business\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Subscribe to Retail Gazette for free<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"x_al\">Sign up\u00a0here\u00a0to g<\/span><span class=\"x_al\">et the latest news straight into your inbox each morning<\/span><strong><span class=\"al\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>WHSmith said in a LinkedIn post: \u201cWe are sad to hear that The Body Shop will be closing some of its UK stores and we\u2019re keen to do what we can to support our fellow retail colleagues who are now facing an uncertain future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a range of roles available across our business in both travel and high street stores as well as our support centres and we want to hear from you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Holland &amp; Barrett said: \u201cWe understand that the recent news regarding store closures may feel concerning. We deeply appreciate your dedication and commitment to The Body Shop over the years and we want to do everything we can to support you during this challenging time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are inviting all colleagues who are at risk of redundancy to apply for our vacancies at Holland &amp; Barrett across all business areas, including but not limited to retail, commerce functions, product and tech, and finance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette\u2018s free daily email newsletter<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<footer>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/online-workshops-list\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-496\" src=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png\" alt=\"Retail Online Training\" width=\"729\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png 729w, https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><\/p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHSmith and Holland &amp; Barrett are among the retailers encouraging staff affected by store closures and redundancies announced by The Body Shop to apply for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}