Gooch & Housego PLC Result of AGM (5776F)
February 21 2018 - 12:20PM
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RNS Number : 5776F
Gooch & Housego PLC
21 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*
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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
1. thereon 14,641,795 0 0
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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
2. 30 September 2017 14,616,948 22,025 2,822
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To declare a final
dividend, as recommended
by the Directors,
of 6.5 pence per ordinary
share for the financial
year ended 30 September
3. 2017 14,641,795 0 0
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To re-elect Mark Webster
4. as a Director 14,641,094 600 101
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To re-elect Alex Warnock
5. as a Director 14,640,822 600 373
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To re-elect Andrew
6. Boteler as a Director 14,641,422 0 373
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To re-elect Peter
7. Bordui as a Director 13,194,208 600 1,446,987
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To re-elect Brian
8. Phillipson as a Director 13,194,208 600 1,446,987
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To re-elect David
9. Bauernfeind as Director 14,641,172 0 623
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To re-appoint Messrs
PricewaterhouseCoopers
10. LLP as Auditors 14,494,805 146,889 101
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To authorise the Directors
to fix the Remuneration
11. of the Auditors 14,641,419 275 101
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To authorise the Directors
to allot shares in
12. the Company 14,610,708 22,864 8,223
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To authorise the Directors
to allot shares in
the Company as if
Section 561 of the
Companies Act 2006
13. did not apply 14,402,053 209,536 37,086
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To authorise the Company
to make market purchases
14. of its own shares 10,733,665 21,089 3,886,206
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* 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 Gooch & Housego
Boteler PLC 01460 256440
Mark Court / Sophie
Wills Buchanan 020 7466 5000
Patrick Robb / David Investec Bank
Anderson 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.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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