Gooch & Housego Regulatory News (GHH)

21 Dec 2007 16:46

Gooch & Housego PLC21 December 2007 For immediate release 21 December 2007 Gooch & Housego PLC (the "Company") Holding in Company Pursuant to rule 17, the Company has today been notified of the followinginterest in the Company's Ordinary 20p shares ("Shares"): Schedule Five (a) the identity of the directors concerned; Gareth CW Jones and Ian W Bayer (b) the date on which the disclosure was made to it; 20 December (c) the date on which the deal or relevant change to the holding waseffected; 19 December 2007 (d) the price, amount and class of the AIM securities concerned; Gareth CW Jones 25,000 Shares at a price of 412 pence per share Ian W Bayer 25,000 Shares at a price of 412 pence per share (e) the nature of the transaction; Exercise of options and sale of resulting shares (f) the nature and extent of the director's interest in the transaction; Holding following the transaction GCW Jones 8,000 20p Ordinary Shares (0.04%) IW Bayer 10,000 20p Ordinary Shares (0.05%) (g) where a deal takes place when it is in any close period under rule 21,the date upon which any previous binding commitment was notified or the dateupon which the Exchange granted permission to deal in order to mitigate severepersonal hardship; and N/A (h) where the notification concerns a related financial product, the detailednature of the exposure. N/A For further information, please contact: Gooch & Housego PLC Tel: 01460 52271Gareth CW Jones Oriel Securities Tel: 020 7710 7600Scott Richardson Brown This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange