Annual Financial Report

DS Smith Plc (the "Company")

2014/15 Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of Annual General Meeting 2015

The Company's 2015 Annual General Meeting will be held at 12 noon on Tuesday 8 September 2015 at the offices of Allen & Overy LLP, One Bishops Square, London E1 6AD.

Copies of the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 April 2015 and the Notice of the 2015 Annual General Meeting are available from today on the Company's Web site www.dssmith.com and may be viewed and downloaded online at: http://www.dssmith.com/investors/annual-report.

Hard copy documents have been posted to shareholders who have elected to receive them.

A copy of the above documents will be submitted shortly to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection on its Web site:

www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do

Company Official Responsible for making this notification:

Matt Jowett

Group General Counsel and Company Secretary

Date of this notification: 22 July 2015