Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6750H

Gooch & Housego PLC

25 February 2010

Gooch & Housego plc

Results of Annual General Meeting

The board of directors of Gooch & Housego plc is pleased to announce that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on, 24 February 2010, all of the resolutions proposed at the meeting were duly passed on a show of hands.

The Directors withdrew Resolution 12, to amend and adopt new Articles of Association of the Company before the Annual General Meeting. The board has taken into account the views expressed on this resolution by certain institutional shareholders and has determined to withdraw the resolution so that the board has the opportunity to consider and discuss matters further, with a view to proposing another resolution to adopt new articles at the 2011 AGM.

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

No.	Resolution	No. of Proxy Votes
No.	Resolution	FOR	AGAINST	DISCRETION
1.	To receive and adopt the Directors' Report and Accounts	4,761,292	412,282	4,509
2.	To re-elect Dr. Julian Blogh as a Director	4,823,174	350,400	4,509
3.	To re-elect Eugene Arthurs as a Director	4,005,291	353,500	8,886
4.	To re-elect Jan Melles as a Director	4,008,391	350,400	8,886
5.	To re-elect Terry Scribbins as a Director	4,820,074	353,500	4,509
6.	To re-elect Andrew Boteler as Director	4,823,174	350,400	4,509
7.	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors	5,169,197	4,377	4,509
8.	To authorise the Directors to fix the Remuneration of the Auditors	5,173,574	0	4,509
9.	To authorise the Directors to allot shares in the Company	5,165,038	5,540	4,872
10.	To authorise the Directors to disapply statutory pre-emption rights on an allotment of shares in the Company*	5,146,907	19,534	8,009
11.	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares*	5,167,934	5,640	4,509
12.	To amend and adopt new Articles of Association of the Company*	WITHDRAWN