REG - Gooch & Housego PLC - Result of AGM

Gooch & HousegoAnnouncement

19/02/2020 12:25

RNS Number : 4954D
Gooch & Housego PLC
19 February 2020
 





For immediate release


19 February 2020



 
 
 
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 2019 together with the Directors' Report and Auditors' Report thereon


10,356,379


0


0




2.


To receive and approve the Remuneration Committee Report set out on pages 37 to 42 (excluding page 38) of the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the financial year ended 30 September 2019


10,347,316


35


9,028




3.


To declare a final dividend, as recommended by the Directors, of 7.2 pence per ordinary share for the financial year ended 30 September 2019


10,356,379


0


0




4.


To re-elect Gary Bullard as a Director


9,266,856


0


1,089,523




5.


To re-elect Mark Webster as a Director


10,356,379


0


0




6.


To elect Chris Jewell as a Director


10,356,379


0


0




7.


To re-elect Peter Bordui as a Director


8,856,147


410,709


1,089,523




8.


To re-elect Brian Phillipson as a Director


9,266,856


0


1,089,523




9.


Resolution withdrawn


N/A


N/A


N/A




10.


To re-appoint Messrs PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors to the Company


10,354,156


64


2,159




11.


To authorise the Directors to fix the Remuneration of the Auditors of the Company


10,356,344


35


0




12.


To authorise the Directors' to allot shares pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006


10,347,661


8,718


0




13 (a)


Special resolution to authorise the Directors' to allot shares pursuant to section 570 of the Companies Act 2006


10,150,330


206,049


0




13 (b)


Special Resolution to partially disapply statutory rights of pre-emption


10,355,272


29


1,078




14


Special Resolution to authorise the Company to purchase its own shares pursuant to section 701 of the Companies Act 2006


10,355,272


29


1,078



* 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  / Charlotte Slater


Buchanan


020 7466 5000




Chris Baird / 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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