REG - Bens Creek Group PLC - Result of AGM and Directorate Change

Bens CreekAnnouncement

27/09/2022 17:00

For best results when printing this announcement, please click on link below:
http://newsfile.refinitiv.com/getnewsfile/v1/story?guid=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20220927:nRSa8933Aa&default-theme=true

RNS Number : 8933A  Bens Creek Group PLC  27 September 2022

27 September 2022

 

 

Bens Creek Group plc

 

("Bens Creek" or the "Company")

 

Result of Annual General Meeting and Directorate Change

 

Bens Creek Group plc (AIM:BEN), the owner of a metallurgical coal mine in
North America supplying the steel industry, is pleased to announce that at the
Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today, all resolutions were duly
passed on a poll.

 

The Company also announces that, further to the announcements released by the
Company on 6 May 2022 and 12 July 2022, Raju Haldankar has ceased to be an
executive director of Bens Creek with immediate effect following conclusion of
the Annual General Meeting today. This also follows the completion of the
orderly transition of his prior responsibilities as Chief Financial Officer to
Murat Erden (the current Chief Financial Officer). Murat Erden continues to be
a member of Bens Creek's senior management team and, in addition to his role
as Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for the development and
implementation of the Company's ESG and sustainability strategy.

 

The proxy votes received from shareholders on each resolution are set out
below:

 

 Resolution            Description                                       Votes For   % of Votes Cast  Votes Against  % of Votes Cast  Total votes cast (excluding votes withheld  Votes Withheld
 ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
 Resolution 1          To receive the Annual Report and Accounts         38,468,526  100              0              0                38,468,526                                  9,098
 Resolution 2          Re-Appointment of Robin Fryer as a Director       38,467,526  99.99            1,000          0.01             38,468,526                                  9,098
 Resolution 3          Re-Appointment of David Harris as a Director      38,467,526  99.99            1,000          0.01             38,468,526                                  9,098
 Resolution 4          Re-Appointment of Adam Wilson as a Director       38,476,624  99.99            1,000          0.01             38,477,624                                  0
 Resolution 5          Re-appointment of PKF Littlejohn LLP as Auditors  38,358,526  100              0              0                38,358,526                                  119,098
 Resolution 6          Allotment of share capital                        38,293,546  99.55            174,980        0.45             38,468,526                                  9,098
 SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS
 Resolution 7          Disapplication of statutory pre-emption rights    38,203,450  99.48            199,980        0.52             38,403,430                                  74,194

 

 

 

For further information please contact:

 Bens Creek Group plc                                            +44 (0) 204 558 2300

 Adam Wilson, CEO

 Murat Erden, CFO

 Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)    +44 (0) 203 328 5656

 Nick Athanas / Nick Naylor / George Payne (Corporate Finance)

 Kelly Gardiner (Sales and Corporate Broking)

 Optiva Securities Limited (Joint Broker)                        +44 (0) 203 137 1902

 Christian Dennis / Mariela Jaho / Daniel Ingram

 

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact
rns@lseg.com (mailto:rns@lseg.com)
 or visit
www.rns.com (http://www.rns.com/)
.

RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our
Privacy Policy (https://www.lseg.com/privacy-and-cookie-policy)
.   END  RAGBUGDCGUDDGDR