REG - Gooch & Housego PLC - Result of AGM

Gooch & HousegoAnnouncement

20/02/2019 13:10

RNS Number : 6396Q
Gooch & Housego PLC
20 February 2019
 





For immediate release


20 February 2019



 
 

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 2018 together with the Directors' Report and Auditors' Report thereon


14,238,657


113


0




2.


To receive and approve the Remuneration Committee Report set out on pages 39 to 44 (excluding page 40) of the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the financial year ended 30 September 2018


14,235,723


2,775


272




3.


To declare a final dividend, as recommended by the Directors, of 7.1 pence per ordinary share for the financial year ended 30 September 2018


14,238,770


0


0




4.


To elect Gary Bullard as a Director


13,294,062


1,513


943,195




5.


To re-elect Mark Webster as a Director


14,237,882


113


775




6.


To re-elect Alex Warnock as a Director


14,237,882


113


775




7.


To re-elect Andrew Boteler as a Director


14,237,882


113


775




8.


To re-elect Peter Bordui as a Director


13,296,028


299


942,443




9.


To re-elect Brian Phillipson as a Director


13,294,214


2,113


942,443




10.


To re-elect David Bauernfeind as a  Director


13,295,014


113


942,443




11.


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


14,238,154


113


503




12.


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


14,238,657


113


0




13.


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


14,027,070


211,633


67




14 (a)


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


13,902,695


334,984


1,091




14 (b)


Special Resolution to partially disapply statutory rights of pre-emption


13,902,695


334,984


1,091




15.


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


10,355,402


212,544


3,670,824



* 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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