Cadbury loses its royal warrant for the first time in 170 years after King Charles III reviews the list of royal warrant holders. The decision follows a campaign urging the king to remove companies operating in Russia.
Chocolate firm Cadbury said yesterday it was “disappointed” after losing its royal warrant for the first time in 170 years following King Charles III’s first review of the coveted list since becoming monarch. Campaign group B4Ukraine earlier this year urged the king to remove companies “still operating in Russia” following its invasion of Ukraine.
It singled out Mondelez International which owns Cadbury as well as Bacardi, Nestle and Unilever, the maker of the UK’s hate-it-or-love-it breakfast spread, Marmite. Cadbury was among 100 firms including Unilever missing from a new list of 386 royal warrant holders, although Bacardi and Nestle retained their warrants. Not all those absent from the latest list, published by the Royal Warrant Holders Association, were necessarily actively removed, and instead may have ceased trading or not applied. The review of royal warrants follows Charles’ accession to the throne in September 2022 on the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II. Warrant holders receive “the right to display the appropriate royal arms on their product, packaging, stationery, advertising, premises and vehicles”. It is regarded as a guarantee of quality and can sway some customers to choose a particular firm’s goods or services. Cadbury, which was first awarded a royal warrant by Queen Victoria in 1854, was reportedly a favourite of the late queen. A spokesperson for Mondelez said Cadbury had been “a part of British life for generations” and remained the “nation’s favourite chocolate”
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