Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6009C

Gooch & Housego PLC

23 February 2022

 

For immediate release

23 February 2022

Gooch & Housego PLC

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

Result of AGM

Gooch & Housego PLC (AIM: GHH), the specialist manufacturer of photonic components & systems, held its Annual General Meeting earlier today.

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 2021 together with the Directors' Report and Auditors' Report thereon	16,391,375	37	1,317
2.	To receive and approve the Remuneration Committee Report set out on pages 65 to 72 (excluding pages 67 and 68) of the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the financial year ended 30 September 2021	16,195,799	193,981	2,949
3	To declare a final dividend, as recommended by the Directors, of 7.7 pence per ordinary share for the financial year ended 30 September 2021	16,391,575	37	1,117
4.	To re-elect Gary Bullard as a Director	14,372,738	2,015,874	4,117
5.	To re-elect Mark Webster as a Director	14,354,523	2,034,089	4,117
6.	To re-elect Chris Jewell as a Director	16,388,575	37	4,117
7.	To re-elect Brian Phillipson as a Director	14,817,177	287	1,575,265
8.	To re-elect Louise Evans as a Director	14,817,127	37	1,575,565
9.	To elect Jim Haynes as a Director	14,817,127	37	1,575,565
10.	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors to the Company	16,387,767	991	3,971
11.	To authorise the Directors to fix the Remuneration of the Auditors of the Company	16,389,773	747	2,209
12.	To authorise the Directors' to allot shares pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006	16,388,389	2,131	2,209
13 (a)	Special resolution to authorise the Directors' to allot shares pursuant to section 570 of the Companies Act 2006	16,387,744	2,776	2,209
13 (b)	Special Resolution to partially disapply statutory rights of pre-emption	16,387,744	2,776	2,209
14	Special Resolution to authorise the Company to purchase its own shares pursuant to section 701 of the Companies Act 2006	13,403,827	989	2,987,913

* 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  / Sophie Wills	Buchanan	020 7466 5000
Christopher Baird / 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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