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The Company consistently refused to acknowledge the need for a truly independent director on the Board. Instead of providing a settlement offer that would allow us to identify a new director, the Company’s legal counsel warned our legal counsel that if we were to proceed with a proxy contest, Ingles would seek to distract from the merits of our campaign by attacking the Sackler family – which is exactly what it has done with its misleading, inaccurate and inflammatory assertions.

Shareholders are voting to elect Mr. Held, an investment professional who has never worked for Purdue Pharma and who brings the perspective of an Ingles Class A owner to the Board.

Summer Road and Mr. Held were good for Peak Resorts, Inc. (“Peak Resorts”), its communities and its stakeholders. We expect the same for Ingles.

There was no boycott at any Peak Resorts mountains during the period Mr. Held was on the board or thereafter. Notably, on the date mentioned in Ingles’ presentations, Mount Snow was closed for the ski season.

Mr. Held’s tenure at Peak Resorts delivered results for all shareholders, including the reinstatement of the dividend, improved investor communication, the successful acquisitions of multiple ski resorts and a value-maximizing sale to a strategic acquirer (which represented a 120% share price increase from when Mr. Held joined the board).

We are hiding nothing. We have always said we are a family office, and the truth is we are an investor aligned with all Class A shareholders.

Ingles, on the other hand, is hiding information from its owners. The Company stopped holding quarterly earnings calls in 2016, discloses the least amount of information of its peers and doesn’t report the accurate picture of its real estate holdings.

Summer Road has sent the Company position verification letters from our prime broker on multiple occasions dating back to the 2023 Annual Meeting. Our approximately 3% holdings were publicly disclosed in our proxy statement filing, as required by the SEC. Mr. Held personally owns more Ingles shares than all “independent” Board members combined, better positioning him to represent shareholders’ interests.

The Board originally appointed L. Keith Collins, a former Ingles executive and Class B director, as a Class A director. The Board then chose not to use an independent search firm to identify and recruit the new Class A director representatives, Rebekah Lowe – who was recommended by an incumbent director – and Dwight Jacobs – who was, in turn, recommended by Ms. Lowe.

How can Ms. Lowe credibly represent Class A shareholders’ interests when she owns zero shares, has a preexisting relationship with an incumbent director(s) and serves alongside her fellow director nominee on another board?

Ingles’ 4% EBITDA growth over a 10-year period, on a 41% increase in net sales, cannot be considered strong financial performance in any scenario. Over the past three years, including the period prior to Hurricane Helene, the Company shrunk its earnings and sales and underperformed peers on same store sales growth, operating margin, return on equity and dividend growth.

The Company’s Q1 2026 results were up against two years of negative comparisons. Compared to two years ago (Q1 2024 – unaffected by Hurricane Helene), Ingles’ sales are lower by 7.3% and EBIT is lower by 35%. These are hardly results to give investors comfort in the upside ahead.

Ingles conveniently excluded Sprouts Farmers Markets, Inc.’s (“Sprouts”) performance from its April 8^th presentation, despite including Sprouts as a peer and “principal competitor” in its 2026 proxy statement filed on April 1^st and in every Form 10-K since 2016.

According to the Company, capital return is OK as long as it solely benefits the Class B shareholders (i.e., the Ingle family). In Fiscal 2021, Ingles repurchased $80 million of stock only from the Class B shareholders. No Class A stock has ever been repurchased. While Class A distributions have been largely stagnant for 10 years, Chairman Ingle has effectively increased his own dividend (the Class B distribution) through compensation.

At no point during our three-plus years of ownership has management or the Board ever engaged with us about any of our ideas. We therefore find it odd that they purport to know what Mr. Held would advise once in the boardroom and how they can insist his suggestions would be value-destructive.

Ingles’ store base has not grown and sales from new stores has been a negative contributor over the past 10 years. The Company has not opened a new store in more than four years and many properties sit fallow. We agree that Ingles has valuable real estate – but why has leadership not done anything with its assets?

Summer Road’s analysis of Ingles’ owned real estate – which we shared with the Company in 2023 but received no response – is based on county records, since Ingles has disclosed extremely limited information.