Stop Twinings using the Royal Warrant on its packaging Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/stop-twinings-using-the-royal-warrant-on-its-packaging.html Online petition signatures en-us Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:02 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition John Clark [Signature #185] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14197274?utm_medium=rss How can twinings have the Royal warrants when the vast majority of their staff and production are overseas? Especially poignant when you learn that over 400 british Employees were made redundant to facilitate this.

]]> Fri, 7 Dec 2012 06:09:12 UTC 14197274 Angela Hunter [Signature #184] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11432267?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Nov 2011 05:33:22 UTC 11432267 Karen Webb [Signature #183] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11171914?utm_medium=rss Shame on you Twinings!

]]> Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:51:59 UTC 11171914 Ronald Webb [Signature #182] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11073491?utm_medium=rss Shame on you Twinings

]]> Sun, 28 Aug 2011 01:20:21 UTC 11073491 daniel wilcox [Signature #181] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11072458?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Aug 2011 04:00:32 UTC 11072458 Anonymous [Signature #180] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10993392?utm_medium=rss I think it is disgraceful that Twinings are closing their two UK factories and moving production to Poland instead and expanding the size of their Chinese production.

]]> Sun, 14 Aug 2011 06:59:18 UTC 10993392 Brigid Ashwood [Signature #179] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10971760?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Aug 2011 09:42:07 UTC 10971760 Christy Broy [Signature #178] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10967130?utm_medium=rss When I buy British tea, I expect it to be made in Britain. That should just go without saying. If I wanted Polish made tea, I would seek it out. It saddens me that so many companies the world is slowly losing their character and sense of pride in country & product to greed and cheap labor. This whole issue saddens me. Signed, a daily tea drinker.

]]> Mon, 8 Aug 2011 06:48:30 UTC 10967130 Clint Rose [Signature #177] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10967111?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Aug 2011 06:44:40 UTC 10967111 maria thompson [Signature #176] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10966430?utm_medium=rss please keep the jobs in the UK, if it is not made here I don't feel I will be able to buy from you anymore.

]]> Mon, 8 Aug 2011 03:54:34 UTC 10966430 Shaun R [Signature #175] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10966022?utm_medium=rss How very sad. Another quintessentially British company more interested in making money than in their heritage or their customers.

]]> Mon, 8 Aug 2011 02:03:48 UTC 10966022 Andrew Webster [Signature #174] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10965030?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Aug 2011 08:24:21 UTC 10965030 Paul Alborough [Signature #173] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10961005?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Aug 2011 02:12:51 UTC 10961005 Rachel Seago [Signature #172] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9981025?utm_medium=rss Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:19:49 UTC 9981025 Malcolm Baker [Signature #171] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9979663?utm_medium=rss How can the Queen possibly approve a foreign product? I'm sure she is unaware and has had her good name used to promote Accountants company profit margins!

]]> Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:02:12 UTC 9979663 Ricky Matthews FBU [Signature #170] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9566780?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Feb 2011 06:06:56 UTC 9566780 Graeme Murphy [Signature #169] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9456072?utm_medium=rss Greedy company disloyal to the United Kingdom.

]]> Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:22:01 UTC 9456072 Louise March [Signature #168] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9356501?utm_medium=rss Can't believe it!

]]> Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:18:43 UTC 9356501 stephen frankling [Signature #167] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9321969?utm_medium=rss I was confirmed at a Church in Twickenham. London. around the corner by the river thames is a large house, on the house for all to read, is the plaque, stateing that in this house lived Baron Twining, known as Thomas Twining the founder of the famous tea co. it can be seen today, shining in the sun, as it is gold painted in places.
I find that Twinings is owned by A.B.F. this is the company owned by the Western Family of Canadian origin.
It has another Royal Warrant for Fortnum & Mason. Lon.

]]> Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:43:18 UTC 9321969 A McCormick [Signature #166] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9314227?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:38:29 UTC 9314227 iain fleming [Signature #165] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9150895?utm_medium=rss KEEP IT BRITISH-- BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH PEOPLE FIRST--- ALWAYS

]]> Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:16:18 UTC 9150895 Michael Silver [Signature #164] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9101933?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:55:55 UTC 9101933 Anonymous [Signature #163] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9047283?utm_medium=rss Shame on Twinings! I will no longer be buying any more of their teas.

]]> Sun, 5 Dec 2010 08:56:33 UTC 9047283 David Massen [Signature #162] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9041548?utm_medium=rss Sat, 4 Dec 2010 06:25:36 UTC 9041548 Anonymous [Signature #161] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9005805?utm_medium=rss Twinings are using a EU grant to transfer production from UK to Poland in order to increase profits for their shareholders but at the cost of several hundred UK jobs. This madness must be stopped.

]]> Sun, 28 Nov 2010 06:26:09 UTC 9005805 Jennifer Gough [Signature #160] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9002472?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:56:45 UTC 9002472 Euphrosene Labon [Signature #159] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8998610?utm_medium=rss Grants are awarded to enhance the local community not kill off jobs by moving the factory to another country!

]]> Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:33:25 UTC 8998610 jillian york [Signature #158] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8998516?utm_medium=rss Britsh company, Royal Crest.... Polish company, no Royal Crest, . I certainly wont be buying Twinnings once the factory in North shields closes and will actively encourage others to stop too..... No British factory, no British customers.

]]> Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:12:20 UTC 8998516 Jeff Moore [Signature #157] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8998497?utm_medium=rss Shame on you Twinings. I'll never buy your products again, and you shouldn't be allowed to call yourself a British company any longer.

]]> Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:09:24 UTC 8998497 Anonymous [Signature #156] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8996571?utm_medium=rss Fri, 26 Nov 2010 06:11:17 UTC 8996571 Maggie Snook [Signature #155] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8996400?utm_medium=rss I agree with this petition, but surely the tea is grown overseas anyway-We do however need to save British jobs. Twinings must wise up. We do not want a well loved tea and its British workers being a abused by its owners!

]]> Fri, 26 Nov 2010 05:38:01 UTC 8996400 keith young [Signature #154] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8996372?utm_medium=rss Twinings should no longer be allowed to portray themselves as a british patiotic company by using a royal warrant

]]> Fri, 26 Nov 2010 05:28:59 UTC 8996372 robert graham [Signature #153] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8986488?utm_medium=rss keep plant and jobs up here in north east.

]]> Wed, 24 Nov 2010 03:26:25 UTC 8986488 DAVID TAYLOR [Signature #152] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8961915?utm_medium=rss Twinings a fine British firm owned by ASSOCIATED BRITISH FOODS putting 400+ out of work in the persuit of cheap labour.

]]> Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:08:42 UTC 8961915 Anonymous [Signature #151] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8959799?utm_medium=rss This is absolute lunacy. Britain has nothing left, it's all been absolutely destroyed by things like this, the company has no right for the royal warrant.

]]> Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:57:16 UTC 8959799 Graham Williams [Signature #150] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8958542?utm_medium=rss If it isn't produced here. Then it isn't good enough for Royal Seals.

]]> Sun, 21 Nov 2010 04:41:14 UTC 8958542 Andrew Wright [Signature #149] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8956160?utm_medium=rss Keep Twinings in the UK

]]> Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:50:03 UTC 8956160 Gary Vance [Signature #148] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8946230?utm_medium=rss Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:45:47 UTC 8946230 Graham Clayton [Signature #147] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8945922?utm_medium=rss Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:08:05 UTC 8945922 robert terry [Signature #146] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8945429?utm_medium=rss Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:08:50 UTC 8945429 Anonymous [Signature #145] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8942972?utm_medium=rss very disappointed in the management decision
we should support our own industry and buy British

]]> Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:37:28 UTC 8942972 Barbara Blenkinsop [Signature #144] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8936292?utm_medium=rss If it's not produced by English workers it should not have the English Royal family's name on it - simples!

]]> Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:57:24 UTC 8936292 Peter McGuinness [Signature #143] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8933745?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:38:46 UTC 8933745 john dutton [Signature #142] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8932768?utm_medium=rss i agree get rid of warrant they are greddy blody liars

]]> Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:04:14 UTC 8932768 Charles McFeely [Signature #141] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8926791?utm_medium=rss This company is too cynical for the Royal Family to lend its support to - these cannot be the values supported by the Head of State

]]> Wed, 17 Nov 2010 02:52:00 UTC 8926791 Paula Lankshear [Signature #140] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8924013?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:15:38 UTC 8924013 Muriel Hitchcock [Signature #139] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8922484?utm_medium=rss Their Products are not British anymore & an endorsement impling that they are is somewhat fraudulent.

]]> Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:04:36 UTC 8922484 lauren tobia [Signature #138] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8921468?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:05:30 UTC 8921468 John Brooks [Signature #137] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8915575?utm_medium=rss To close a profitable factory and damage peoples lives for what appears to be a short term financial gain is appalling.
The Royal Warrant should be withdrawn.

]]> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:25:04 UTC 8915575 Anonymous [Signature #136] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8914960?utm_medium=rss I fully agree that the Royal Warrant should be reserved for goods and services that are produced within the UK, even if the raw materials originate overseas. It should not be "cheapened" and reduced to nothing more than a marketing device for products that only pay lip service to the concept of "made in Great Britain".

]]> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:24:39 UTC 8914960 jane bratley [Signature #135] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8914011?utm_medium=rss Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:53:52 UTC 8914011 Chris Hall [Signature #134] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8912610?utm_medium=rss Keep Twinings in England!!!!!

]]> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:48:43 UTC 8912610 susan hunt [Signature #133] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8912191?utm_medium=rss I am disgusted that in these very hard times a supposedly British company can
flee like rats from a sinking ship, is your profit worth losing your countrymen, I hope the Queen and Charles decide to order their tea elsewhere in protest at this turncoat attitude of Twinings!

]]> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:18:20 UTC 8912191 Anonymous [Signature #132] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8911401?utm_medium=rss Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:06:59 UTC 8911401 Anonymous [Signature #131] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8908836?utm_medium=rss Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:35:51 UTC 8908836 Eddie Darke [Signature #130] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8908136?utm_medium=rss Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:07:51 UTC 8908136 George Roberts-Morehen [Signature #129] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8904682?utm_medium=rss & who owns Twinings? Associated British Foods (AB Foods) that's who. They also own Primark, & Silver Spoon sugar. LET'S HAVE A TOTAL BOYCOTT EMBARGO AGAINST THIS DESPICABLE COMPANY! My source : Cavazza, Manfreda. (2011, November 11). "AB Foods blasted over polish grant". The Daily Mail, City & Finance, p.72.

]]> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:56:28 UTC 8904682 Terry Hicks [Signature #128] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8903726?utm_medium=rss I am disgusted at what Twinings are doing plus receiving £10,000,000 to set up shop in Poland...money that should be used for regeneration.This is being used purely to move production to another country and increase profit!I believe this is a misuse of funds.

]]> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:34:13 UTC 8903726 Paul Gilbey [Signature #127] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8903373?utm_medium=rss I wish the uk people would vote with there feet and stop buying the tea

]]> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:56:28 UTC 8903373 Nigel Lambert [Signature #126] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8903288?utm_medium=rss Its disgraceful EU funding is helping to wipe out industry in this country and to top it off a supposedly british company. i will be boycotting twinnings once i finish the 3 in the cupboard and i hope others will too.

]]> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:47:24 UTC 8903288 christina bellyou [Signature #125] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8902588?utm_medium=rss Keep production in the UK

]]> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:37:56 UTC 8902588 Anonymous [Signature #124] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8901978?utm_medium=rss Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:42:51 UTC 8901978 Anonymous [Signature #123] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8879115?utm_medium=rss Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:48:27 UTC 8879115 Flavio Caruso [Signature #122] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8874143?utm_medium=rss Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:53:21 UTC 8874143 roy Neill [Signature #121] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8868647?utm_medium=rss I intend to ban where possible all AB Foods products from our home until AB come to their senses regarding the Twinings move. I will also prompt my friends, family and business contacts to do the same!

]]> Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:05:36 UTC 8868647 Janet Stringer [Signature #120] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8866244?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:14:30 UTC 8866244 Floyd Major [Signature #119] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8862261?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:28:22 UTC 8862261 Hannah Sykes [Signature #118] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8859667?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Nov 2010 07:13:06 UTC 8859667 Alice Stringer [Signature #117] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8858932?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Nov 2010 04:06:54 UTC 8858932 neil robinson [Signature #116] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8857866?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Nov 2010 01:31:08 UTC 8857866 Jennie Formby [Signature #115] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8857829?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Nov 2010 01:25:36 UTC 8857829 Lynette Comber [Signature #114] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8855788?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Nov 2010 08:11:50 UTC 8855788 mel randall [Signature #113] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8855663?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Nov 2010 07:53:55 UTC 8855663 tony groves [Signature #112] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8855587?utm_medium=rss Is this what we pour billions into the eu for, so they can pay companies to go elsewhere and make our unemployment problem worse. Totalitarian money furnace is what it is.

]]> Tue, 9 Nov 2010 07:37:11 UTC 8855587 Gregory Lauder-Frost [Signature #111] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8855539?utm_medium=rss This company have disgraced themselves in the eyes of the British people. It is a scandal that any Royal Warrant should be afforded to them.

]]> Tue, 9 Nov 2010 07:27:59 UTC 8855539 mike johnson [Signature #110] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8855535?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Nov 2010 07:27:42 UTC 8855535 John Meed [Signature #109] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8855319?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:48:20 UTC 8855319 Jason Elliott [Signature #108] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8853879?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Nov 2010 01:57:24 UTC 8853879 Monia Melandri [Signature #107] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8851660?utm_medium=rss I've been a huge consumer of Twining teas because of quality and British tradition, but now no more.
Sorry.

]]> Mon, 8 Nov 2010 02:43:46 UTC 8851660 Robert Hardy [Signature #106] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8851568?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Nov 2010 02:27:15 UTC 8851568 Dave Warwick [Signature #105] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8851315?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Nov 2010 01:45:26 UTC 8851315 karen spencer [Signature #104] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8851078?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Nov 2010 01:09:01 UTC 8851078 Anonymous [Signature #103] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8849976?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Nov 2010 10:22:04 UTC 8849976 Sarah Soden [Signature #102] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8848913?utm_medium=rss I also registered my protest with Twinings via email.

]]> Mon, 8 Nov 2010 07:41:06 UTC 8848913 John Hughes [Signature #101] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8848035?utm_medium=rss I agree whole heartedly that companies abandoning British workers for the apparent cheaper labour abroad should not be allowed to keep the Royal Warrant

]]> Mon, 8 Nov 2010 04:38:33 UTC 8848035 Martin James [Signature #100] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8847540?utm_medium=rss By the action that Twinings are taking in sacking workers and moving the jobs abroad when thay could still be retained in the UK, should lose the right to use the Royal Warrant.

]]> Mon, 8 Nov 2010 02:33:43 UTC 8847540 Anonymous [Signature #99] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8846632?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Nov 2010 07:49:43 UTC 8846632 Anonymous [Signature #98] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8845739?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Nov 2010 03:20:39 UTC 8845739 L J Harris [Signature #97] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8845088?utm_medium=rss Moving production away from the UK is a terrible decision by Twinings. They don't dseserve to retain the Royal Warrant.

]]> Sun, 7 Nov 2010 12:58:50 UTC 8845088 Anonymous [Signature #96] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8843728?utm_medium=rss Twinings decision to move from the uk and abandon its British employees is abominable. Surely twinings should now be striped of its royal warrant.

]]> Sun, 7 Nov 2010 07:55:59 UTC 8843728 Richard Howard [Signature #95] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8843551?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Nov 2010 06:46:09 UTC 8843551 nick johns [Signature #94] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8843319?utm_medium=rss What happens when all our jobs are exported, who will have any money to buy tea then?

]]> Sun, 7 Nov 2010 05:13:59 UTC 8843319 rebecca chipperfield [Signature #93] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8843304?utm_medium=rss The seal should be removed as there are far too many job losses in England, but opening a factory in Poland to take the work there! Disgusting behaviour for such a traditional English company!

]]> Sun, 7 Nov 2010 05:09:13 UTC 8843304 Paul Barlow [Signature #92] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8843278?utm_medium=rss Outrageous, Twinnings in the receipt of an EU grant to build a factory in Poland, means the workers, via their taxes, have paid to have their jobs transferred! None of the main parties will ever do anything about it while we are members of the EU, time to leave I think!

]]> Sun, 7 Nov 2010 05:02:55 UTC 8843278 Daniel Simpson [Signature #91] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8842291?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Nov 2010 08:57:31 UTC 8842291 laura balsdon [Signature #90] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8841588?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Nov 2010 04:59:37 UTC 8841588 Roger Dewhurst [Signature #89] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8840724?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Nov 2010 01:46:42 UTC 8840724 Julian Wellings [Signature #88] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8840602?utm_medium=rss They've sold their loyal workforce in North Shields down the river by closing an efficient and profitable plant. With more of its production taking place in China and now Poland, Twinings should no longer have the right to use the Royal Warrant.

]]> Sat, 6 Nov 2010 01:19:35 UTC 8840602 julie pattinson [Signature #87] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8840594?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Nov 2010 01:18:03 UTC 8840594 joe parkin [Signature #86] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8840509?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Nov 2010 12:57:45 UTC 8840509