Results of Annual General Meeting

RNS Number : 9394X

Gooch & Housego PLC

23 February 2012

 



For immediate release                                                                                         23 February 2012

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, 22 February 2012, 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	DISCRETION
1.	To receive and adopt the Annual Report and Accounts	8,801,246	0	3,609
2.	To declare a final dividend, as recommended by the Directors, of 3.0 pence per ordinary share	8,801,246	0	3,609
3.	To re-elect Gareth Jones as a Director	8,798,096	2,000	4,359
4.	To re-elect Jan Melles as a Director	8,798,096	2,000	4,359
5.	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors	8,794,701	4,545	3,609
6.	To authorise the Directors to fix the Remuneration of the Auditors	8,798,745	2,501	3,609
7.	To authorise the Directors to allot shares in the Company	8,791,775	6,371	3,359
8.	To authorise the Directors to disapply statutory pre-emption rights on an allotment of shares in the Company*	8,730,412	64,134	3,359
9.	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares*	8,791,463	9,333	3,659

* Special resolutions requiring a 75% majority of the votes cast.

Contact and telephone numbers for enquiries:

Gareth Jones, Chief Executive Officer: 01460 256 440
Andrew Boteler, Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary:  01460 256 440

 

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