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08
Mar 2022
Harrogate Spring Water and Yorkshire Tea suspend trade with Russia
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:
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:
All brands owned by Taylors of Harrogate, which also include coffee products, will no longer be exported to Russia.
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