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RNS Number : 8255L  Smiths News PLC  16 December 2025

16 December 2025

Smiths News PLC

("Smiths News")

 

Publication of Annual Financial Report

and

Notice of AGM

 

Smiths News (LSE: SNWS), the leading distributor of newspapers, magazines and
ancillary services to retailers across the UK, announces that it has today
published its Annual Report and Accounts 2025. In addition, the Company
announces that its Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM") has been sent to
shareholders.

 

Smiths News' Annual General Meeting will be held at 11.30am on 29 January 2026
at Rowan House, Cherry Orchard North, Kembrey Park, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2
8UH. The voting results of all resolutions put before the AGM will be
announced shortly afterwards and published on the Company's website.

 

Smiths News has submitted copies of the following documents to the National
Storage Mechanism:

 

1.    Annual Report and Accounts 2025

2.    Notice of Annual General Meeting

3.    Proxy Form

 

These documents will be available for inspection at National Storage Mechanism
| FCA
(https://www.fca.org.uk/markets/primary-markets/regulatory-disclosures/national-storage-mechanism)
within two business days.

 

The Annual Report and Accounts 2025 and the Notice of Annual General Meeting
are also available to view at www.smithsnews.co.uk
(http://www.smithsnews.co.uk)

 

All of the information required by DTR 6.3.5 to be communicated to the media
in unedited full text through a Regulatory Information Service is contained in
the Company's preliminary results announcement published on 4 November 2025,
which can be found at www.smithsnews.co.uk (http://www.smithsnews.co.uk)

 

 

 

For further information, please contact:

 

 Smiths News PLC                                      via Vigo Consulting

 Jonathan Bunting, Chief Executive Officer

 George Cooper, Interim Chief Financial Officer

 www.smithsnews.co.uk (http://www.smithsnews.co.uk)

                                                      Tel: +44 (0) 20 7390 0230

 Vigo Consulting

 Jeremy Garcia / Fiona Hetherington / Anna Sutton

 smithsnews@vigoconsulting.com

 

About Smiths News

Smiths News is the UK's largest news wholesaler and leading provider of early
morning, end-to-end supply chain solutions. Smiths News has been delivering
newspapers to retailers across the UK for over 200 years on behalf of the
major national and regional publishers. Today, Smiths News delivers to over
22,000 customers across England and Wales on a daily basis.

 

Smiths News's service capability now extends into a number of new verticals
that build on its expertise in warehousing, reverse logistics and early
morning final mile services, across its extensive high-density UK delivery
network, including a waste recycling collection service, the delivery of
additional categories such as books and home entertainment, and extending our
services in the final mile.

 

The speed of turnaround and the density of Smiths News' coverage is critical
to one of the world's fastest physical supply chains and we remain focused on
continuing to deliver best in class service to the news and magazines market,
whilst exploring opportunities for growth based on this strong foundation.

 

For more information, please visit: www.smithsnews.co.uk
(http://www.smithsnews.co.uk)

 

 

Person responsible for arranging release of this announcement:

Stuart Marriner, General Counsel & Company Secretary

Smiths News plc, Rowan House, Cherry Orchard North, Kembrey Park, Swindon SN2
8UH

Email: cosec@smithsnews.co.uk

 

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