Waitrose Duchy Organic Originals Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary company of The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation and donates to the charity from its profits. By 2013 the brand had raised £11 million from its profits for the Prince's Charities. In 2014 profits from Waitrose sales gave the Prince's Charities £3 million. In Canada the proceeds from sales of Duchy Originals products are donated to the charities associated with The Prince's Charities Canada. By 2012 more than one million Canadian dollars were being raised annually in this manner. The "Duchy Future Farming" programme was set up in 2013 in partnership with the
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