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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:
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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.