29 December 2023
Bens Creek Group plc
("Bens Creek", the "Group" or the "Company")
Exercise of share options by Director
Bens Creek Group plc (AIM:BEN), the owner of a metallurgical coal mine in North America supplying the steel industry, announces that Robin Fryer, Non-Executive Chairman of the Company and a person discharging managerial responsibility (a "PDMR"), on 28 December 2023, exercised options to subscribe for 300,000 new ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in the Company at an exercise price of 5 pence per share (the "New Ordinary Shares"). The exercise of these options has generated £15,000 for the Company.
Application will be made shortly for the New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") and it is expected that Admission will occur on or around 5 January 2024.
Following the exercise of the options, Robin Fryer holds 300,000 New Ordinary Shares in the Company equivalent to 0.08 per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company.
The FCA notification, made in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation, is appended further below.
Upon Admission, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 399,873,728 Ordinary Shares with one voting right each. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares and voting rights in the Company will be 399,873,728. With effect from Admission, this figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
For further information please contact:
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| Bens Creek Group plc Adam Wilson, CEO Peter Shea, Chief of Staff
| +44 (0) 204 558 2300 |
| Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) Nick Athanas / Nick Naylor / George Payne (Corporate Finance) Kelly Gardiner (Sales and Corporate Broking) | +44 (0) 203 328 5656 |
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WH Ireland Limited (Joint Broker) Harry Ansell / Katy Mitchell |
+44 (0) 207 220 1666
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Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them
| 1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
| |
| a)
| Name
| Robin Fryer |
| 2
| Reason for the notification | |
| a)
| Position/status
| Non-Executive Chairman |
| b)
| Initial notification /Amendment
| Initial |
| 3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
| |
| a)
| Name
| Bens Creek Group plc |
| b)
| LEI
| 213800I3FGJ7KAZGEG14 |
| 4
| Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
| |
| a)
| Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument | Ordinary Shares of 0.1 pence each |
| | | |
| Identification code | GB00BP814F22 | |
| | | |
| b)
| Nature of the transaction
| Exercise of Options over the Ordinary Shares in the Company |
| c) | Price and volume | Price: 5 pence per option Volume: 300,000 |
| d)
| Aggregated information | |
| | | |
| Aggregated volume | 300,000 | |
| | | |
| Price
Principal amount | 5 pence per option
£15,000 | |
| | | |
| e)
| Date of the transaction
| 28 December 2023 |
| f)
| Place of the transaction
| Outside of a trading venue |
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