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 savoury pastry products. The venture suffered financial problems, with the factory making a loss of £447,158 in the financial year 2006/7. In 2009 the Duchy Originals company decided to sell the bakery, with one-off costs from the sale contributing towards Duchy Originals making a loss for 2009-10. In 2008 Duchy Originals partnered with the alternative medicine company Nelsons to produce a line of herbal remedies. This led to controversy, in which leading UK scientists said that Duchy Originals promoted its herbal remedies with scientifically unsound claims. Edzard Ernst, the UK's first professor of complementary medicine, said Duchy Originals detox products