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1 November 2022

Made.com Group Plc

("MADE" or the "Company")

Update on Strategic Review, Intention to Appoint Administrators and Suspension of Trading

On 23 September 2022, MADE announced a strategic review including a formal sale process. Since that date, the Company and its advisers have held discussions with a number of interested parties and have explored possible offers for the issued and to be issued share capital of the Company and debt financing arrangements. On 25 October 2022, MADE subsequently announced that the select number of interested parties invited to work towards firm offers by the end of October had all confirmed that they were unable to meet the necessary timetable and that as a result those discussions had been terminated and it was no longer in receipt of funding proposals or possible offers for its share capital.

As a consequence, the board of Made.com Design Ltd ("MDL"), MADE's operating subsidiary, considered appropriate next steps. In light of MDL's requirement for further funding and in order to preserve value for its creditors, the board of MDL took the decision on 26 October 2022 to temporarily suspend new customer orders. MADE has now been notified that the board of MDL has resolved to file notice of its intention to appoint administrators, with a view to appointing Zelf Hussain, Peter David Dickens and Rachael Maria Wilkinson of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as administrators of MDL.

During the strategic review process, MADE received proposals from interested parties to acquire certain of or substantially all of MDL's trade, assets and brands. Any such sale of MDL's trade, assets and brands would at this stage be effected by administrators of MDL following their appointment. There can be no certainty that any such sale will proceed or as to the terms or timing of any such sale.

Following a request by the Board, the Company's ordinary shares have been suspended from trading on the London Stock Exchange's Main Market for listed securities this morning. The Board currently expects that, in due course, the listing of the Company's ordinary shares will be cancelled, any residual value will be distributed to the Company's shareholders and the Company will be wound up.

Further announcements will be made in due course.

Enquiries:

MADE  

Nicola Thompson, Chief Executive Officer         

Patrick Lewis, Chief Financial Officer     

Phil Clark, Investor Relations     

investor.relations@made.com   

Brunswick Group        

Craig Breheny  

Diana Vaughton           

made@brunswickgroup.com     

+44 207 404 5959         

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Zelf Hussain     

Rachael Wilkinson

Iain Reilly         

+44 (0) 20 7583 5000    

J.P. Morgan Cazenove (Corporate Broker)       

Bill Hutchings   

James Summer

+44 207 742 4000         

Liberum Capital Limited (Corporate Broker)    

Clayton Bush   

John Fishley    

+44 203 100 2000         

The person responsible for making this announcement on behalf of Made.com Group Plc is Laura Tyler, General Counsel and Company Secretary (Interim).

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