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08

Mar 2022

Last Updated: 09/03/2022
Business
Business

Harrogate Spring Water and Yorkshire Tea suspend trade with Russia

by Suzannah Rogerson

| 08 Mar, 2022
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The two major Harrogate employers tell the Stray Ferret they intend to suspend trade with Russia immediately.

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Harrogate Spring Water and Yorkshire Tea said today they will cease trade with Russia with immediate effect.

The two Harrogate-based companies issued statements in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has so far claimed about 13,000 lives and forced two million people to flee their homes.

A Harrogate Spring Water spokesperson said:

“Harrogate Spring Water has made the decision to stop all exports to Russia with immediate effect.”


Russia has been one of Harrogate Spring Water's biggest export markets in the past, according to multiple articles published in 2013.

An article in The Business Desk, published in 2013, said water sales in Russia has increased by 40% year-on-year.

The company itself tweeted an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin drinking a bottle of its water in 2013.

https://twitter.com/HarrogateSpring/status/375589127275560960?s=20&t=DQo5_CMsbRdj8AltJnys1g



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Yorkshire Tea is owned by Taylors of Harrogate, a 130-year-old company founded in Harrogate. It has a distributer in Moscow.

A spokesperson for Taylors of Harrogate said today:

"Like everyone, we’ve been deeply shocked and saddened by the invasion and our thoughts are with all those impacted.
"Our ethical trade and human rights policy states that our values guide how we work with suppliers, customers and distributors, including the provision that we will not trade with individuals, entities, regions or countries where UK sanctions have been applied.
"While Russia has been an export market for some of our teas for several years, as a result of the invasion and the subsequent sanctions we’ve suspended trade."


All brands owned by Taylors of Harrogate, which also include coffee products, will no longer be exported to Russia.