2026 Portobello Weekly Vertical Diary in Ludlow - Dark Olive

Smythson

£285

Add a touch of luxury to your weekday workspace with the Portobello desk diary. Crafted in our sumptuous Ludlow leather, its expansive week-to-view pages allow for the most meticulous planning, with an end notes section to jot down ideas as you work. Dark olive desk diary bound in grained calf leather Vertical week-to-view layout with notes pages Gilt-edged, pale blue Featherweight paper Indexed monthly tabs Made in England Runs from Monday 17th November 2025 to Sunday 24th January 2027 Dimensions:W21 x H26cm / W8.5 x H10"

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The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as FRANK SMYTHSON LIMITED, number 03594597. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "Warehousing, Customer Service & Production - Swindon" Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.