Shareholding - Update

This announcement is for informational purposes only and will under no circumstances constitute the basis for a decision to invest in the shares of the Company (as defined below) or NWR Plc (as defined below). The Combined Prospectus and Offer Document (as defined below) as amended and supplemented by a supplementary prospectus and offer document dated 18 April 2011 prepared in connection with the public offering and admission and introduction of NWR Plc's securities to trading on the London Stock Exchange, Prague Stock Exchange and Warsaw Stock Exchange, together with the Polish translation of the summary of the Combined Prospectus and Offer Document, is the sole legally binding document containing information on the Company and NWR Plc and the offering in Poland. For the purposes of the offering in Poland and the admission and introduction of securities of NWR Plc to trading on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, NWR Plc has made the Combined Prospectus and Offer Document, together with the Polish translation of the summary thereof, available on the NWR Group's website (www.newworldresources.eu) and on the website of the Polish Offering Agent - ING Securities S.A. (www.ingsecurities.pl).

NWR N.V.: Notification regarding a change in the share capital of New World Resources N.V.

The Board of Directors of New World Resources N.V (the "Company") hereby announces that on 3 June 2011 the Company received notification from persons performing managerial functions in the Company and New World Resources Plc ("NWR Plc") stating that NWR Plc has acquired 2,174,475 shares in the Company as a result of the third closing of a share-for-share exchange offer of series A ordinary shares in the Company (the "Existing A Shares") for newly issued series A ordinary shares (the "New A Shares") in NWR Plc, on such terms as specified in the prospectus dated 11 April 2011 as amended and supplemented by a supplementary prospectus and offer document dated 18 April 2011 prepared in connection with (a) the offer by NWR Plc (the "Offer"); and (b) the request for admission of up to 264,698,715 New A Shares to trading on the premium listing segment of the Official List of the United Kingdom Listing Authority and to trading on the regulated markets of the London Stock Exchange, the Prague Stock Exchange and the Warsaw Stock Exchange (the "Combined Prospectus and Offer Document").