Gooch & Housego plc Gooch & Housego PLC Results of Annual General Meeting

The board of directors of Gooch & Housego plc is pleased to announce that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 26 February 2015, 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 Annual
General Meeting 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

13,053,154

-

450

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

12,778,956

2,290

272,358

3.

To declare a final dividend of 4.6 pence

per ordinary share

13,053,604

-

-

4.

To re-elect Gareth Jones as a Director

11,304,176

428,227

1,321,201

5.

To re-elect Mark Webster as a Director

13,053,454

-

150

6.

To re-elect Alex Warnock as a Director

13,053,454

-

150

7.

To re-elect Andrew Boteler as a Director

13,053,454

-

150

8.

To re-elect Paul Heal as a Director

13,053,454

-

150

9.

To re-elect Peter Bordui as a Director

11,304,176

1,749,278

150

10.

To re-appoint Mssrs

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors

13,048,154

5,300

150

11.

To authorise the Directors to fix the

Remuneration of the Auditors

13,047,546

3,376

2,682

12.

To authorise the Directors to allot shares

in the Company

12,208,439

843,006

2,159

13.

To authorise the Directors to allot shares

in the Company as if Section 561 of the

Companies Act 2006 did not apply

11,296,274

4,979

1,752,351

14.

To authorise the Company to make market

purchases of its own shares

11,042,807

2,010,797

-

Contact and telephone numbers for enquiries:
Mark Webster, Chief Executive Officer: 01460 256 440
Andrew Boteler, Chief Financial Officer: 01460 256 440
Gareth Crowe, Company Secretary: 01460 256 440

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