Results of Annual General Meeting

RNS Number : 0077G

Gooch & Housego PLC

26 February 2015

 

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 26 February 2015, 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 Annual General Meeting were as follows:

No.	Resolution	No. of Proxy Votes
		FOR	AGAINST	WITHHELD
1.	To receive and adopt the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 30 September 2015	13,053,154	-	450
2.	To receive and approve the Remuneration Committee Report set out on pages 32 to 36 (Excluding page 33) of the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 September 2015	12,778,956	2,290	272,358
3.	To declare a final dividend of 4.6 pence per ordinary share	13,053,604	-	-
4.	To re-elect Gareth Jones as a Director	11,304,176	428,227	1,321,201
5.	To re-elect Mark Webster as a Director	13,053,454	-	150
6.	To re-elect Alex Warnock as a Director	13,053,454	-	150
7.	To re-elect Andrew Boteler as a Director	13,053,454	-	150
8.	To re-elect Paul Heal as a Director	13,053,454	-	150
9.	To re-elect Peter Bordui as a Director	11,304,176	1,749,278	150
10.	To re-appoint Mssrs PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors	13,048,154	5,300	150
11.	To authorise the Directors to fix the Remuneration of the Auditors	13,047,546	3,376	2,682
12.	To authorise the Directors to allot shares in the Company	12,208,439	843,006	2,159
13.	To authorise the Directors to allot shares in the Company as if Section 561 of the Companies Act 2006 did not apply	11,296,274	4,979	1,752,351
14.	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares	11,042,807	2,010,797	-

Contact and telephone numbers for enquiries:

Mark Webster, Chief Executive Officer:  01460 256 440
Andrew Boteler, Chief Financial Officer:  01460 256 440

Gareth Crowe, Company Secretary: 01460 256 440

 

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