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2027 Kings Weekly Vertical Diary in Mara - Red

Smythson

£285

Add a dash of distinction to your everyday with the Kings desk diary. Crafted in our embossed Mara leather and hardbound cover, its expansive week-to-view pages allow for the most meticulous planning. Red desk diary bound in crocodile-embossed calf leather Hardbound Vertical week-to-view layout with notes pages White wove watermarked paper Indexed monthly tabs Slip pocket Silk lined Made in England Runs from Monday 16th November 2026 to Sunday 23rd January 2028 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.