On April 23, 2024, Bens Creek Group plc announced that it has received correspondence on 20 April 2024 from MBU Capital Group Limited ("MBU") requesting the Company to convene a general meeting of the Company's shareholders under section 303 of the Companies Act 2006. The Company intends to comply with its obligations under the Act and a circular convening the GM will be posted to the Company's shareholders in due course, and in any event no later than 13 May 2024. MBU's correspondence states that the general meeting is to be convened to allow the Company's shareholders to discuss the operational and strategic challenges facing the Company at present.

The Company's board continues to believe that the Chapter 11 cases commenced in the United States of America Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of West Virginia in relation to its wholly-owned US subsidiaries, Ben's Creek Operations WV LLC, Ben's Creek Carbon LLC, and Ben's Creek Land WV LLC, are in the best interests of the Group.