Waitrose Duchy Organic originate, manufacture, distribute and sell Duchy products within the UK through its stores as well as via third parties. The tradition of donating royalties to charity has continued and the Prince of Wales has continued his involvement with the brand. The company Duchy Originals originated the "Duchy Originals" brand in 1990 as a premium organic food and drink brand. It also created two other brands, "Duchy Selection"s and "Duchy Collections". "Duchy Selections" was a range of premium free-range (but not organic) pork and fish products and mineral waters, and "Duchy Collections" was a range of high quality non food products.
Waitrose Duchy Organic were "outright quackery". Subsequently the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency ruled that healing claims were misleading and required the company to amend an advertising campaign promoting two herbal medicines. In 2002 the "Deeside Water Company" began to produce some of its bottled mineral water for the "Duchy Originals" brand. In 2010 Waitrose rebranded the product as "Duchy Originals from Waitrose" and in 2016 the supermarket repackaged it as part of its "Waitrose One" premium range. Gardening tools were produced under the Duchy Originals brand by the Lancashire company "Caldwells" until it went into administration in 2009. The company Duchy