Gooch & Housego PLC (GHH.L)

560.00 +10.00 (+1.82%) At close: 04:35PM BST

Gooch & Housego PLC

Dowlish Ford
Ilminster TA19 0PF
United Kingdom
44 14 6025 6440
https://www.gandh.com

Sector(s): Technology
Industry: Electronic Components
Full-time employees: 1,030

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Charles St. John Stewart Peppiatt	CEO & Director	680k	N/A	1970
Mr. Chris Jewell	CFO & Executive Director	482k	N/A	1964
Mr. John Andzulis	Chief Operating Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Efstratios Kehayas BEng, DIC, MSc, Ph.D.	Chief Product & Technology Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Sarabjit Singh	VP Global Sales & Business Development	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Melinda Chudleigh	Chief People Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Jon Fowler	Executive Vice President of Commercial Development	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Gareth James Crowe	Group Financial Controller & Company Secretary	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of 31 December 2023, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in GBp.

Description

Gooch & Housego PLC engages in the manufacture and sale of acousto-optics, electro-optics, fiber optics, and precision optics and systems in the United Kingdom, North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. It offers acousto-optic products, such as acoustic-optic modulators, deflectors, frequency shifters, mode lockers, pulse pickers, Q-switches, tunable filters, and RF drivers; crystal optics, including crystals and nonlinear optics, lithium niobate wafers, and periodically-poled lithium niobite; and electro-optics, such as pockels cells, lithium niobate Q-switches, and pockels cell drivers. The company also provides fiber optics, such as DFB lasers and modules, fiber-coupled pump lasers, high-speed detectors and power combiners, benchtop laser controllers, polarization-maintaining and single-mode fused fiber couplers, polarization diverse receivers, ruggedized and wideband couplers, planar lightwave circuits, variable optical delay lines, and fiber-coupled modulators; precision optics, including beam splitters, corner cubes, optical domes, optical windows and flats, polymer optics, precision lenses, precision mirrors, precision prisms, ring laser gyroscope components, synchrotron mirrors, waveplates, optical bindings, magnetorheological finishing, optical coatings, single point diamond turning, and super polishing; lens systems; and vision systems for armored fighting vehicles, including embedded image periscope and sighting systems, enhanced drivers vision system, saber commander/gunner sights, spares and repairs, specter camera modules, and unity vision periscopes; and medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics, and laboratory instruments. The company's products are used in semiconductor and microelectronic, metrology, telecommunications, and scientific research industries. Gooch & Housego plc was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Ilminster, the United Kingdom.

Corporate governance

Gooch & Housego PLC’s ISS governance QualityScore as of N/A is N/A. The pillar scores are Audit: N/A; Board: N/A; Shareholder rights: N/A; Compensation: N/A.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.