Gooch & Housego PLC Result of AGM (0616Q)

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RNS Number : 0616Q

Gooch & Housego PLC

24 February 2016

 
 For immediate release   24 February 2016 
 
 
 
 

Gooch & Housego PLC

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

Result of AGM

Gooch & Housego PLC (AIM: GHH), the specialist manufacturer of optical 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 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       To receive and adopt 
        the Annual Report 
        and Accounts for the 
        financial year ended 
 1.     30 September 2015            13,581,146           -      63,000 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       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 
 2.     30 September 2015            13,576,503       3,666      63,977 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       To declare a final 
        dividend of 5.2 pence 
 3.     per ordinary share           13,581,146           -      63,000 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       To re-elect Gareth 
 4.     Jones as a Director          12,636,203     742,406     265,537 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       To re-elect Mark Webster 
 5.     as a Director                13,578,396       2,600      63,150 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       To re-elect Alex Warnock 
 6.     as a Director                13,578,996       2,000      63,150 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       To re-elect Andrew 
 7.     Boteler as a Director        13,578,996       2,000      63,150 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       To re-elect Paul Heal 
 8.     as a Director                13,578,996       2,000      63,150 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       To re-elect Peter 
 9.     Bordui as a Director         12,819,150     761,846      63,150 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       To re-elect Brian 
 10.    Phillipson as a Director     13,578,996       2,000      63,150 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       To re-appoint Mssrs 
        PricewaterhouseCoopers 
 11.    LLP as Auditors              13,574,135       6,861      63,150 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       To authorise the Directors 
        to fix the Remuneration 
 12.    of the Auditors              13,575,620       5,376      63,150 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       To authorise the Directors 
        to allot shares in 
 13.    the Company                  13,427,520     152,949      63,677 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       To authorise the Directors 
        to allot shares in 
        the Company as if 
        Section 561 of the 
        Companies Act 2006 
 14.    did not apply                11,442,217   2,082,883     131,026 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
       To authorise the Company 
        to make market purchases 
 15.    of its own shares            10,584,495     149,533   2,909,701 
----  ----------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 
 
 For further information 
  contact: 
 Mark Webster / Andrew      Gooch & Housego 
  Boteler                    PLC                01460 256440 
 Mark Court                 Buchanan           020 7466 5000 
 Patrick Robb / David       Investec Bank 
  Anderson                   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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