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Gooch & HousegoAnnouncement

24/02/2016 17:00

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


Mark Webster / Andrew Boteler 
Gooch & Housego PLC
01460 256440
Mark Court 
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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