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Gooch & Housego PLC

20 February 2019

 
 For immediate release   20 February 2019 
 
 
 
 

Gooch & Housego PLC

("G&H" or the "Company")

Result of AGM

Gooch & Housego PLC (AIM: GHH), the specialist manufacturer of photonic components & systems, is pleased to announce that, at the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of the Company held earlier today, all of the resolutions proposed at the meeting were duly passed on a show of hands.

For information, the proxy votes received in respect of the resolutions proposed at the AGM were as follows:

 
 No.    Resolution                                    No. of Proxy Votes 
                                                             FOR   AGAINST   WITHHELD* 
                                                     -----------  --------  ---------- 
        To receive the Annual 
         Report and Financial Statements 
         for the financial year 
         ended 30 September 2018 
         together with the Directors' 
         Report and Auditors' Report 
  1.     thereon                                      14,238,657       113           0 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        To receive and approve 
         the Remuneration Committee 
         Report set out on pages 
         39 to 44 (excluding page 
         40) of the Annual Report 
         and Financial Statements 
         for the financial year 
  2.     ended 30 September 2018                      14,235,723     2,775         272 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        To declare a final dividend, 
         as recommended by the 
         Directors, of 7.1 pence 
         per ordinary share for 
         the financial year ended 
  3.     30 September 2018                            14,238,770         0           0 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        To elect Gary Bullard 
  4.     as a Director                                13,294,062     1,513     943,195 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        To re-elect Mark Webster 
  5.     as a Director                                14,237,882       113         775 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        To re-elect Alex Warnock 
  6.     as a Director                                14,237,882       113         775 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        To re-elect Andrew Boteler 
  7.     as a Director                                14,237,882       113         775 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        To re-elect Peter Bordui 
  8.     as a Director                                13,296,028       299     942,443 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        To re-elect Brian Phillipson 
  9.     as a Director                                13,294,214     2,113     942,443 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        To re-elect David Bauernfeind 
 10.     as a Director                                13,295,014       113     942,443 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        To re-appoint Messrs PricewaterhouseCoopers 
         LLP as Auditors to the 
 11.     Company                                      14,238,154       113         503 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        To authorise the Directors 
         to fix the Remuneration 
         of the Auditors of the 
 12.     Company                                      14,238,657       113           0 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        To authorise the Directors 
         to allot shares pursuant 
         to section 551 of the 
 13.     Companies Act 2006                           14,027,070   211,633          67 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        Special resolution to 
         authorise the Directors 
         to allot shares pursuant 
  14     to section 570 of the 
  (a)    Companies Act 2006                           13,902,695   334,984       1,091 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        Special Resolution to 
  14     partially disapply statutory 
  (b)    rights of pre-emption                        13,902,695   334,984       1,091 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
        Special Resolution to 
         authorise the Company 
         to purchase its own shares 
         pursuant to section 701 
 15.     of the Companies Act 2006                    10,355,402   212,544   3,670,824 
       --------------------------------------------  -----------  --------  ---------- 
 

* A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentages of votes cast for and against a resolution.

 
 For further information 
  contact: 
                                  Gooch & Housego 
 Mark Webster / Andrew Boteler     PLC                  01460 256440 
 Mark Court / Sophie Wills        Buchanan             020 7466 5000 
 Patrick Robb / David Anderson    Investec Bank plc    020 7597 5970 
 

Notes to editors

1. Gooch & Housego is a photonics technology business headquartered in Ilminster, Somerset, UK with operations in the USA and Europe. A world leader in its field, the company researches, designs, engineers and manufactures advanced photonic systems, components and instrumentation for applications in the Aerospace & Defence, Industrial, Life Sciences and Scientific Research sectors. World leading design, development and manufacturing expertise is offered across a broad range of complementary technologies.

2. All financial information included in this announcement is sourced from unaudited management accounts and excludes any specific items. This announcement contains certain forward-looking statements that are based on management's current expectations or beliefs as well as assumptions about future events. These are subject to risk factors associated with, amongst other things, the economic and business circumstances occurring from time to time in the countries and sectors in which G&H operates. It is believed that the expectations reflected in these statements are reasonable but they may be affected by a wide range of variables which could cause actual results, and G&H's plans and objectives, to differ materially from those currently anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. Investors should not place undue reliance on any such statements. Nothing in this announcement should be construed as a profit forecast.

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