Chocolate maker Cadbury has lost its status as a supplier to the British Royal Court. This occurred after activists from the organization B4Ukraine asked King Charles I to revoke this status for all companies that continue to operate in Russia, including Cadbury. The BBC reported this.
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Cadbury received a patent allowing it to put the royal family’s coat of arms on its products in 1854 from Queen Victoria, and the document has been renewed several times since. Cadbury is currently owned by the American Mondelez International.
“While we are disappointed that, like hundreds of other companies in the UK, we have not received a new order, we are proud to have received it and fully respect this decision,” a Mondelez spokesperson told the BBC.
Previously, activists from the pro-Ukrainian organization B4Ukraine asked Charles I to revoke the royal court supplier documents of companies that continue to operate in Russia after the start of the military operation, including Mondelez and Unilever.
Professor David Bailey, of Birmingham Business School, told the BBC that the king’s decision would affect Cadbury’s costs as it would have to remove the royal coat of arms from all packaging.
The BBC noted that Charles I had granted royal supplier status to 386 companies that had previously received it from the late Queen Elizabeth II, including John Lewis, Heinz and Nestlé.
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