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Gooch & Housego PLC

14 January 2020

 
 For immediate release   14 January 2020 
 
 
 
 

Gooch & Housego PLC

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

Grant of LTIP Awards

Gooch & Housego PLC (AIM: GHH), the specialist manufacturer of optical components & systems, announces that awards were made on 13 January 2020 in accordance with the rules of the Gooch & Housego PLC Long Term Incentive Plan 2013 to the following officers of the Company:

 
 Name            Number of Awards      Total Number 
                  Granted in January    of Unvested Awards 
                  2020 
 Mark Webster    29,942                115,369 
                --------------------  -------------------- 
 Chris Jewell    37,867                37,867 
                --------------------  -------------------- 
 Gareth Crowe    2,957                 15,121 
                --------------------  -------------------- 
 

Subject to satisfying the required TSR and EPS performance criteria, these grants will vest on 13 January 2023. One third of Chris Jewell's grant will vest on 13 January 2022 subject to satisfying the required TSR and EPS performance criteria.

 
 
 
 
   For further information 
   contact: - 
 Mark Webster / Andrew Boteler    Gooch & Housego PLC       01460 256440 
 Mark Court / Charlotte 
  Slater                          Buchanan                 020 7466 5000 
 Chris Baird / 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.

 
 
 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
       / person closely associated 
 a)   Name                                      1. Mark Webster 
                                                 2. Chris Jewell 
                                                 3. Gareth Crowe 
     -----------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 2    Reason for the notification 
     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Position/status                           1. Chief Executive Officer 
                                                 2. Chief Financial Officer 
                                                 3. Company Secretary 
     -----------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 b)   Initial notification/Amendment       Initial notification 
     -----------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
       auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Name                                 Gooch & Housego Plc 
     -----------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 b)   LEI                                  213800DO3D00KYOPA952 
     -----------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 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         Ordinary shares of 20 pence each 
       instrument, type of instrument. 
 
       Identification code                  GB0002259116 
     -----------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 b)   Nature of transaction                Awards made pursuant to the rules 
                                            of the Gooch & Housego PLC Long 
                                            Term Incentive Plan 2013 
     -----------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)               Price(s)         Volume(s) 
     -----------------------------------  ---------------  ---------------------- 
                                           n/a                         1. 29,942 
                                                                        2. 37,867 
                                                                        3. 2,957 
     -----------------------------------  ---------------  ---------------------- 
      Aggregated information 
                                                 1. 29,942 
       - Aggregated volume                        2. 37,867 
                                                  3. 2,957 
                                                  n/a 
 
       - Price 
     -----------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 e)   Date of the transaction              13 January 2020 
     -----------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 f)   Place of the transaction             Outside a trading venue 
     -----------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 
 

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