Gooch & Housego : 28 Mar 19 – Company Director Shareholding Change – M Webster

Immediate Release

Gooch & Housego PLC

("G&H" or the "Company")

Director Shareholding

Gooch & Housego PLC (AIM: GHH), the specialist manufacturer of photonic components & systems, announces that the Company was notified on 28 March 2019 that, on the same date, Mark Webster, Chief Executive Officer, exercised 28,437 options vested under the Gooch & Housego PLC 2013 Long Term Incentive Plan and in order to satisfy the income tax obligations subsequently sold 13,500 ordinary shares of 20p each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of £12.40 per Ordinary Share.

Following this, Mark Webster has an interest in 36,366 Ordinary Shares in the Company, representing 0.1% of the Company's total issued share capital.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely
	associated
a)	Name	Mark Webster
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Chief Executive Officer
b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform,
	auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Gooch & Housego Plc
b)	LEI	213800DO3D00KYOPA952

4Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)		Description of the financial instrument,	Ordinary shares of 20 pence each
		type of instrument.
		Identification code	GB0002259116
b)		Nature of transaction	(1)	Exercise of share options with an exercise
				price of zero pence per share, and (2)
				subsequent sale of ordinary shares
c)		Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)		Volume(s)
			(1)	Nil	28,437
			(2)	1,240.0p	13,500
	Aggregated information
	-	Aggregated volume	13,500
	-	Price	£167,400
e)	Date of the transaction		28 March 2019
f)	Place of the transaction		London Stock Exchange

For further information please contact:
Gooch & Housego PLC
Mark Webster/ Andy Boteler	Tel [phone]
Buchanan
Mark Court/Sophie Cowles	Tel [phone]
Investec Bank plc, (NOMAD and Broker)
Patrick Robb / David Anderson	Tel [phone]