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6 Jul 2006 08:43

Body Shop International PLC06 July 2006 The Body Shop International PLC Filing of Annual report and Accounts and letter to Shareholders Two copies of the following documents have been submitted to the UK ListingAuthority: Annual Report and Accounts 2006Letter to shareholders dated 4 July 2006. These documents will shortly be available for inspection at the UK ListingAuthority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at: Financial Services Authority25 The North CollonadeCanary WharfLondonE14 5HS The text of the Letter to shareholders is set out below. "Dear Shareholder Annual Accounts for the 52 weeks to 25 February 2006 Enclosed with this letter you will find a copy of our Annual Report and Accountsfor the 52 weeks ended 25 February 2006. The accounts were approved by theBoard on 5 May 2006 prior to the release of our preliminary announcement of theAnnual Results and, at that time, it was anticipated that the Annual GeneralMeeting ("AGM") would be held on 27 July 2006. On 9 June 2006 the Offer fromL'Oreal for the Company was declared wholly unconditional and, as a result, theCompany is now a subsidiary of L'Oreal. On 13 June 2006 notices were despatchedby L'Oreal to all shareholders who had not by then accepted the offer, notifyingthem of L'Oreal's intention to exercise its right to compulsorily acquire theirshares pursuant to section 429 of the Companies Act 1985. On the same date itwas also announced that application had been made for the cancellation of theCompany's listing on the Official List of the UKLA and for the cancellation ofthe admission to trading of the Company's shares on the London Stock Exchange'smarket for listed securities. It is anticipated that cancellation of listing andadmission to trading will take effect from 12 July 2006. In relation to shares in the Company which have not been assented to the Offerby 25 July 2006, it is expected that the compulsory acquisition referred toabove will take place shortly thereafter and that, as a result, L'Oreal willthen have acquired 100% of the issued ordinary shares of the Company. In the light of this, the Company now proposes to call its AGM after the date onwhich it is anticipated that the Company will be wholly owned by L'Oreal and, asa consequence, Notice of AGM is not being dispatched today. You shouldtherefore disregard the statement relating to the proposed date of the AGM anddispatch of Notice of AGM set out in the Directors' report on page 25 of theAnnual Report and Accounts. Other references in the Annual Report and Accountsto the AGM and to the business proposed to be conducted at the AGM shouldsimilarly be read in the light of the above circumstances. The Annual Report and Accounts are being sent to you now because you currentlyremain a shareholder of the Company. Yours sincerely, Adrian BellamyChairman" Contact:Jeremy KettCompany SecretaryThe Body Shop International PLC01903 845397 5 July 2006 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange