Cosmetics and skincare company The Body Shop owes thousands of pounds to landlords, suppliers and tax authorities in Buckinghamshire following its collapse. 

The Body Shop fell into administration in February due to poor trading performance.

A raft of closures announced in the same month included the branch in the Eden Shopping Centre in High Wycombe and resulted in the loss of 489 jobs around the country.

New documents on Companies House have revealed that The Body Shop’s UK arm owed over £267 million to creditors when it collapsed at the beginning of the year.

The UK branch of technology software company HeaveyRF, based on Coronation Road in High Wycombe, is owed £10,236 by the company, according to the administration proposal.

Meanwhile, the marketing agency Independent Marketing Sciences, based in The Spinney, Beaconsfield, is owed £38,400 and Zebra Technology Europe Limited, on Millboard Road in Bourne End, is owed £2,616.

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The Body Shop also owes Milton Keynes Council £4,693 in tax rates.

But software company Agile Solutions, at Exchange House in Milton Keynes, takes the cake for the highest amount of money owed, at over £102,000.

The Body Shop was founded by Dame Anita Roddick in Brighton in the 1970s as a sustainability-first cosmetics brand.

It has passed hands a few times since and was sold to L'Oréal in 2006 before being bought by Brazilian beauty company Natura in 2017.

The European equity firm Aurelius acquired the company in December last year when it had 197 shops in the UK.

Many of these branches were closed by FRP after it was appointed administrator in February.