FITCH REAFFIRMS INVESTMENT GRADE RATING

RNS Number : 6403P

Supermarket Income REIT PLC

13 February 2023

 

13 February 2023

SUPERMARKET INCOME REIT PLC  

(the "Company") 

LEI: 2138007FOINJKAM7L537 
 

Fitch reaffirms investment grade rating  

Supermarket Income REIT plc (LSE: SUPR), the real estate investment trust providing secure, inflation-protected, long income from grocery property in the UK, announces that Fitch Ratings Limited ("Fitch") has reaffirmed the Company's existing Investment Grade, long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) of 'BBB+' with a stable outlook.

The Fitch Rating Action Commentary can be read in full here: https://www.fitchratings.com/research/corporate-finance/fitch-affirms-supermarket-income-reit-plc-at-bbb-outlook-stable-10-02-2023

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Atrato Capital Limited	[phone]
Steve Noble / Rob Abraham / Chris McMahon	[e-mail]
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited	[phone]
Mark Young / Matt Blawat / Rajpal Padam
Goldman Sachs International Jimmy Bastock / Tom Hartley	[phone]
FTI Consulting	[phone]
Dido Laurimore / Eve Kirmatzis / Andrew Davis	[e-mail]

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 supermarkets 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 ⁽¹⁾ . 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.  There is no certainty that these illustrative projections will be achieved    

Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority, is acting exclusively for Supermarket Income REIT plc and no one else in connection with this announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to clients of Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited nor for providing advice in connection with the matters referred to in this announcement.

Goldman Sachs International, which is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority in the United Kingdom, is acting exclusively for Supermarket Income REIT plc and no one else in connection with this announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to clients of Goldman Sachs International nor for providing advice in connection with the matters referred to in this announcement.

 

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