Waitrose Duchy Organic estate and the first product was oaten biscuits. Products were initially sold through high-end stores such as Harrods and Fortnum & Mason. During the 1990s Duchy Originals products began being stocked in farm shops and independent delicatessens and expansion during the 2000s saw a selected range of Duchy Originals products becoming widely available in most major UK supermarkets, with Waitrose as the brand's largest customer. By 2008 sales of Duchy Originals had raised over £7 million cumulatively for The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation. Following the financial crisis of 2007–2008 the Duchy Originals business began making losses, amounting to around
The Originals (website) song whose origins he has discovered and mapped out. The show was also broadcast on Radio 3 in the Netherlands by Dutch host Hubert van Hoof. In 2000 Rypens established a website around the project. The Originals (website) The Originals is a database website founded and ran by Arnold Rypens in 2000 and based on a radio show and book series originally launched in 1982. It offers lists of the original versions of thousands of songs and musical compositions and adds every cover and sample made of it since. As of 2017 the site counts more than 15.000 titles. "The