Result of AGM

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	Resolution withdrawn	N/A	N/A	N/A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

* 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:
Mark Webster / Chris Jewell	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.

 

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