Supreme AIM:SUP
- Founded
- 1975 · Manchester, England
- Incorporated
- United Kingdom
- Chief executive
- Sandy Chadha
- Employees
- 483
- Reports in
- GBP
- Companies House
- 05844527
Manchester-based consumer products group that manufactures and distributes batteries, lighting, vaping products (88Vape), sports nutrition and wellness goods, and soft drinks, acquiring brands such as Typhoo tea and Clearly Drinks. Supplies discounters, supermarkets and convenience retailers with a vertically integrated, high-volume model.
Read straight from the annual reports
134p at close on 2 Oct 2026 · 9 reported years, 2018–2026
| Line | FY201806/18 | FY201903/19 | FY202003/20 | FY202103/21 | FY202203/22 | FY202303/23 | FY202403/24 | FY202503/25 | FY202603/26 | FY2027unreported |
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| Gross profit | vs 26.6 | |||||||||
| Operating profit | vs 14.0 | |||||||||
| Exceptional items | — | vs 0.44 | ||||||||
| Net finance cost | vs 0.78 | |||||||||
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GBP millions, negatives in brackets. Per-share lines in pence, share counts in millions. later is what a following report restated the figure to; vs is a second reading that disagrees. The figure shown is the one the original filing printed, and both readings are kept. Click any figure: opens the report page it was read from, highlighted; shows how it was calculated. The share price above is drawn to the same columns: each close sits over the financial year it fell in.
9 years, at a glance
Dashed: Operating margin, in % on its own scale — read its shape, not its height against the bars.
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Vaping (own-brand 88Vape plus distributed brands ElfBar/Lost Mary)
Vaping revenue £129.0m (FY24: £140.3m); non-disposable growth +8% offset by disposable vape decline of £11.4m ahead of the 1 June 2025 UK disposable vape ban
page 13Drinks & Wellness acquisitions (Clearly Drinks, Typhoo Tea) plus organic SCI-MX growth
Category revenue doubled to £48.8m (FY24: £23.9m); Clearly Drinks contributed £18.9m, Typhoo Tea £6.1m, underlying Wellness grew 5% to £18.9m
page 33Addition of Clearly Drinks (near-40% gross margin manufacturing) and reduced disposable vape mix (lower margin)
Blended gross margin rose to 32% (FY24: 29%); manufacturing margins at Clearly Drinks almost 40%
page 34Increased volumes of e-liquids (higher-margin) within Vaping
Increased focused on powders within Wellness and increased e-liquid volumes cited as gross margin drivers
page 34£2.9m credit: Net gain on bargain purchase (Typhoo Tea negative goodwill net of supplier ransom payments)
page 88Supreme has made a positive start to FY26 and expects to deliver another profitable and highly cash-generative year, trading in line with current market expectations (analysts' consensus for FY26: revenue £236m, Adjusted EBITDA £36.5m)
page 1On 2 April 2025 the Group (via Supreme Imports Limited) entered a 4-year lease for a site in Gloucester to manufacture black tea products; annual rental commitment £238,000
page 66Policy of distributing c.25% of net profit. FY25 interim dividend 1.8p and proposed final dividend 3.4p per share (total 5.2p, +10% YoY), to be approved at AGM 18 September 2025, paid 23 September 2025 to shareholders on register 22 August 2025 (ex-div 21 August 2025)
page 1Unqualified ('true and fair') audit opinion from BDO LLP (Steven Roberts, Senior Statutory Auditor), no material uncertainty over going concern identified; Directors adopted going concern basis based on 2-year cash flow forecasts to 31 March 2027, stress-tested against disposable vape ban and 5%/20% revenue downturn scenarios; KAMs were revenue recognition and purchase price allocation/fair value of tangible assets acquired on the year's three acquisitions; Group materiality £1.545m (5% of PBT)
page 70- Risks and regulation to the Vaping market (disposable vape ban, Tobacco and Vapes Bill, new excise duty) - risk rating 25 (highest)p.44
- Volatility of raw material prices - risk rating 6p.45
- Third party production and supply, notably reliance on China-based manufacturers - risk rating 6p.45
- Dependency on key customers (top ten account for more than half of turnover) - risk rating 10p.45
Read from C001242-AR-2026-website.
8 annual reports read, FY2019 to FY2026
Open a year to see what its report said. Every line in it carries the page it was read from.
Sources: Companies House (7), Company website (1)
FY2027Next report expected 8 Jul 2027