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XOXO Panama Notebook - Scarlet Red

SmythsonMade in the UK

£65

The Panama pocket notebook is handcrafted in England using the finest crossgrain leather. Inspired by the Panama diary invented in 1908, this notebook is lightweight, portable and will make the perfect gift or travel companion. Scarlet red pocket notebook bound in cross grain lambskin 128 leaves of gilt-edged, pale blue ruled Featherweight paper with dedicated headings on each page Made in England Dimensions:W9 x H14cm/W3.5 x H5.5"

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Where this comes from

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.
Made in the UK
The maker states: The Panama pocket notebook is handcrafted in England using the finest crossgrain leather. Inspired by the Panama diary invented in 1908, this notebo Source. Their words, not ours; we have not independently verified it.
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.