For immediate release

19 February 2020

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*

To receive the Annual Report and

Financial Statements for the financial

1.

year ended 30 September 2019 together

10,356,379

0

0

with the Directors' Report and Auditors'

Report thereon

To receive and approve the

Remuneration Committee Report set out

2.

on pages 37 to 42 (excluding page 38) of

10,347,316

35

9,028

the Annual Report and Financial

Statements for the financial year ended

30 September 2019

To declare a final dividend, as

3.

recommended by the Directors, of 7.2

10,356,379

0

0

pence per ordinary share for the financial

year ended 30 September 2019

4.

To re-elect Gary Bullard as a Director

9,266,856

0

1,089,523

5.

To re-elect Mark Webster as a Director

10,356,379

0

0

6.

To elect Chris Jewell as a Director

10,356,379

0

0

7.

To re-elect Peter Bordui as a Director

8,856,147

410,709

1,089,523

8.

To re-elect Brian Phillipson as a Director

9,266,856

0

1,089,523

9.

Resolution withdrawn

N/A

N/A

N/A

To re-appoint Messrs

10.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as

10,354,156

64

2,159

Auditors to the Company

To authorise the Directors to fix the

11.

Remuneration of the Auditors of the

10,356,344

35

0

Company

To authorise the Directors' to allot shares

12.

pursuant to section 551 of the

10,347,661

8,718

0

Companies Act 2006

Special resolution to authorise the

13 (a)

Directors' to allot shares pursuant to

10,150,330

206,049

0

section 570 of the Companies Act 2006

13 (b)

Special Resolution to partially disapply

10,355,272

29

1,078

statutory rights of pre-emption

Special Resolution to authorise the

14

Company to purchase its own shares

10,355,272

29

1,078

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 / Charlotte Slater

Buchanan

020 7466 5000

Chris Baird / Patrick Robb / David

Investec Bank plc

020 7597 5970

Anderson

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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