Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6396Q

Gooch & Housego PLC

20 February 2019

 

For immediate release

20 February 2019

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 2018 together with the Directors' Report and Auditors' Report thereon	14,238,657	113	0
2.	To receive and approve the Remuneration Committee Report set out on pages 39 to 44 (excluding page 40) of the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the financial year ended 30 September 2018	14,235,723	2,775	272
3.	To declare a final dividend, as recommended by the Directors, of 7.1 pence per ordinary share for the financial year ended 30 September 2018	14,238,770	0	0
4.	To elect Gary Bullard as a Director	13,294,062	1,513	943,195
5.	To re-elect Mark Webster as a Director	14,237,882	113	775
6.	To re-elect Alex Warnock as a Director	14,237,882	113	775
7.	To re-elect Andrew Boteler as a Director	14,237,882	113	775
8.	To re-elect Peter Bordui as a Director	13,296,028	299	942,443
9.	To re-elect Brian Phillipson as a Director	13,294,214	2,113	942,443
10.	To re-elect David Bauernfeind as a  Director	13,295,014	113	942,443
11.	To re-appoint Messrs PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors to the Company	14,238,154	113	503
12.	To authorise the Directors to fix the Remuneration of the Auditors of the Company	14,238,657	113	0
13.	To authorise the Directors to allot shares pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006	14,027,070	211,633	67
14 (a)	Special resolution to authorise the Directors to allot shares pursuant to section 570 of the Companies Act 2006	13,902,695	334,984	1,091
14 (b)	Special Resolution to partially disapply statutory rights of pre-emption	13,902,695	334,984	1,091
15.	Special Resolution to authorise the Company to purchase its own shares pursuant to section 701 of the Companies Act 2006	10,355,402	212,544	3,670,824

* 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 / Andrew Boteler	Gooch & Housego PLC	01460 256440
Mark Court  / Sophie Wills	Buchanan	020 7466 5000
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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