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RNS Number : 5776FGooch & Housego PLC21 February 2018
For immediate release
21 February 2018
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 2017 together with the Directors' Report and Auditor's Report thereon
14,641,795
0
0
2.
To receive and approve the Remuneration Committee Report set out on pages 37 to 41 (excluding page 38) of the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the financial year ended 30 September 2017
14,616,948
22,025
2,822
3.
To declare a final dividend, as recommended by the Directors, of 6.5 pence per ordinary share for the financial year ended 30 September 2017
14,641,795
0
0
4.
To re-elect Mark Webster as a Director
14,641,094
600
101
5.
To re-elect Alex Warnock as a Director
14,640,822
600
373
6.
To re-elect Andrew Boteler as a Director
14,641,422
0
373
7.
To re-elect Peter Bordui as a Director
13,194,208
600
1,446,987
8.
To re-elect Brian Phillipson as a Director
13,194,208
600
1,446,987
9.
To re-elect David Bauernfeind as Director
14,641,172
0
623
10.
To re-appoint Messrs PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors
14,494,805
146,889
101
11.
To authorise the Directors to fix the Remuneration of the Auditors
14,641,419
275
101
12.
To authorise the Directors to allot shares in the Company
14,610,708
22,864
8,223
13.
To authorise the Directors to allot shares in the Company as if Section 561 of the Companies Act 2006 did not apply
14,402,053
209,536
37,086
14.
To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares
10,733,665
21,089
3,886,206
* 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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