Gooch & Housego PLC Result of AGM (4954D)
February 19 2020 - 7:23AM
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RNS Number : 4954D
Gooch & Housego PLC
19 February 2020
For immediate release 19 February 2020
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*
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To receive the Annual
Report and Financial Statements
for the financial year
ended 30 September 2019
together with the Directors'
Report and Auditors' Report
1. thereon 10,356,379 0 0
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To receive and approve
the Remuneration Committee
Report set out on pages
37 to 42 (excluding page
38) of the Annual Report
and Financial Statements
for the financial year
2. ended 30 September 2019 10,347,316 35 9,028
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To declare a final dividend,
as recommended by the
Directors, of 7.2 pence
per ordinary share for
the financial year ended
3. 30 September 2019 10,356,379 0 0
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To re-elect Gary Bullard
4. as a Director 9,266,856 0 1,089,523
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To re-elect Mark Webster
5. as a Director 10,356,379 0 0
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To elect Chris Jewell
6. as a Director 10,356,379 0 0
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To re-elect Peter Bordui
7. as a Director 8,856,147 410,709 1,089,523
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To re-elect Brian Phillipson
8. as a Director 9,266,856 0 1,089,523
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9. Resolution withdrawn N/A N/A N/A
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To re-appoint Messrs PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP as Auditors to the
10. Company 10,354,156 64 2,159
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To authorise the Directors
to fix the Remuneration
of the Auditors of the
11. Company 10,356,344 35 0
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To authorise the Directors'
to allot shares pursuant
to section 551 of the
12. Companies Act 2006 10,347,661 8,718 0
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Special resolution to
authorise the Directors'
to allot shares pursuant
13 to section 570 of the
(a) Companies Act 2006 10,150,330 206,049 0
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Special Resolution to
13 partially disapply statutory
(b) rights of pre-emption 10,355,272 29 1,078
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Special Resolution to
authorise the Company
to purchase its own shares
pursuant to section 701
14 of the Companies Act 2006 10,355,272 29 1,078
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* 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 / Chris Jewell 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.
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