The Body Shop scrubs up with new Croydon office HQ

UBS Global Asset Management UK Ltd, advised by Hanover Green, has let office space at Knollys House in Croydon to The Body Shop International Plc.

The beauty products, make-up and skincare brand has agreed to a new seven-year lease on the seventh to tenth floors of the twelve storey building for office space totalling 25,873 sq ft. The Body Shop will pay £24.50 per sq ft, a top rent for the Croydon office market.

Ed Brown, Director of Global Real Estate at UBS, comments: “This is a highly significant letting for Croydon as The Body Shop are one of the first of a growing list of occupiers looking to relocate to the town, attracted by the major regeneration underway including the new Westfield Shopping Centre, Boxpark, Ruskin Square and multiple residential schemes. The letting is also a great endorsement of the significant investment UBS have made in refurbishing the reception and office space at Knollys House and of the high quality of space it now provides”.