Supermarket Income Regulatory News (SUPR)

8 July 2022

SUPERMARKET INCOME REIT PLC

(the "Company")

LEI: 2138007FOINJKAM7L537

DIVIDEND DECLARATION

The Board of Directors of Supermarket Income REIT plc (LSE: SUPR), the real estate investment trust providing secure, inflation-protected, long income from grocery property in the UK, has today declared an interim dividend in respect of the period from 1 April 2022 to 30 June 2022 of 1.485 pence per ordinary share, payable on or around 22 August 2022 (the "Interim Dividend"). The ex-dividend date will be 14 July 2022 with a record date of 15 July 2022. The dividend will comprise a Property Income Distribution ("PID") of 0.7285 pence per share and an ordinary dividend of 0.7565 pence per share.

The Company has now declared four quarterly dividends totalling 5.94 pence per ordinary share for the financial year ended 30 June 2022, achieving the Company's full-year dividend target.

Eligible shareholders can elect to receive new ordinary shares in the Company in lieu of a cash dividend (the "Scrip Dividend Alternative"). The Scrip Dividend Alternative price is to be calculated using the average of the closing middle market quotations for an ordinary share, as derived from the Daily Official List of the London Stock Exchange, for the five consecutive business days commencing on the ex-dividend date and will be announced by the Company and detailed on the Company's website on 29 July 2021.

Any shareholders wishing to take up the Scrip Dividend Alternative will have until 5pm on 5 August 2022 either to return their completed mandate form to the Company registrar, Link Group, at Corporate Actions, 10th Floor, Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 4DL (in the case of shareholdings in certificated form) or to take the necessary action via the CREST system (in the case of shareholdings in uncertificated form).

Further details of the Scheme, including the Scrip Dividend Circular and Mandate Form, are available to view and download on the Company's website at: https://www.supermarketincomereit.com/dividend-information

The Scrip Dividend Circular is also available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism 

In addition and in accordance with section 838 of the Companies Act 2006, Interim Accounts of the Company covering the period 1 July 2021 to 31 December 2021 have been prepared to support the payment of interim dividends to the Ordinary shareholders of the Company.

NOTES TO EDITORS:

Supermarket Income REIT plc (LSE: SUPR) is a real estate investment trust dedicated to investing in grocery properties which are an essential part of the UK's feed the nation infrastructure. The Company focuses on grocery stores which are omnichannel, fulfilling online and in-person sales. All of the Company's 69 supermarkets(1) are let to leading UK supermarket operators, diversified by both tenant and geography.

The Company provides investors with attractive, long-dated, secure, inflation-linked, growing income with the potential for capital appreciation over the longer term and targets a 7% to 10% p.a. total shareholder return over the medium term(2). The Company has increased its dividend every year since IPO.

The Company is listed on the premium segment of the Official List of the UK Financial Conduct Authority and its Ordinary Shares are traded on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, having listed initially on the Specialist Fund Segment of the Main Market on 21 July 2017.

Atrato Capital Limited is the Company's Investment Adviser.

Further information is available on the Company's website www.supermarketincomereit.com

1. 43 directly owned supermarkets, plus 26 via joint venture. Please note that it was announced in January 2022 that Sainsbury's exercised its options to acquire a total of 21 of the 26 stores in the portfolio

2. There is no certainty that these illustrative projections will be achieved