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RNS Number : 6009C  Gooch & Housego PLC  23 February 2022

 For immediate release  23 February 2022

 

 

 

Gooch & Housego PLC

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

 

Result of AGM

Gooch & Housego PLC (AIM: GHH), the specialist manufacturer of photonic
components & systems, held its Annual General Meeting earlier today.

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    16,391,375  37         1,317
         ended 30 September 2021 together with the Directors' Report and Auditors'
         Report thereon
 2.      To receive and approve the Remuneration Committee Report set out on pages 65    16,195,799  193,981    2,949
         to 72 (excluding pages 67 and 68) of the Annual Report and Financial
         Statements for the financial year ended 30 September 2021
 3       To declare a final dividend, as recommended by the Directors, of 7.7 pence per  16,391,575  37         1,117
         ordinary share for the financial year ended 30 September 2021
 4.      To re-elect Gary Bullard as a Director                                          14,372,738  2,015,874  4,117
 5.      To re-elect Mark Webster as a Director                                          14,354,523  2,034,089  4,117
 6.      To re-elect Chris Jewell as a Director                                          16,388,575  37         4,117
 7.      To re-elect Brian Phillipson as a Director                                      14,817,177  287        1,575,265
 8.      To re-elect Louise Evans as a Director                                          14,817,127  37         1,575,565
 9.      To elect Jim Haynes as a Director                                               14,817,127  37         1,575,565
 10.     To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors to the Company             16,387,767  991        3,971
 11.     To authorise the Directors to fix the Remuneration of the Auditors of the       16,389,773  747        2,209
         Company
 12.     To authorise the Directors' to allot shares pursuant to section 551 of the      16,388,389  2,131      2,209
         Companies Act 2006
 13 (a)  Special resolution to authorise the Directors' to allot shares pursuant to      16,387,744  2,776      2,209
         section 570 of the Companies Act 2006
 13 (b)  Special Resolution to partially disapply statutory rights of pre-emption        16,387,744  2,776      2,209
 14      Special Resolution to authorise the Company to purchase its own shares          13,403,827  989        2,987,913
         pursuant to section 701 of the Companies Act 2006

* 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  / Sophie Wills                Buchanan                 020 7466 5000
 Christopher Baird / 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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