Gooch & Housego Plc · LSE:GHH
Gooch & Housego — Shareholder Meeting (February 2021)
9 slides from Gooch & Housego's shareholder meeting presentation, Feb 24, 2021
Slide 1: Annual General Meeting
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 24 February 2021 CEO Mark Webster November 2020
Slide 2: Photonics and the future
Photonics and the future • Photonics is the study and design of systems that depend on the transmission, modulation or amplification of streams of photons, the basic unit of light. • Photonics is increasingly providing better solutions than electronics alone. • Photonics is already transforming manu
Slide 3: Key highlights, FY 2020
Key highlights, FY 2020 • Trading: Reflected a challenging global economic environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic. G&H is proud of the way our staff responded. Management actions contributed to a stronger second half of the year. This included, ensuring all our manufacturing sites in USA, UK and C
Slide 4: First four months FY2021 - trading performance
First four months FY2021- trading performance • During the first four months of the new financial year, we have seen improved levels of demand for industrial lasers. In line with previously reported trends there have been continued high levels of demand for fibre optic modules, hi- reliability fibre
Slide 5: First four months FY2021 - manufacturing streamlining
First four months FY2021- manufacturing streamlining • Good progress has been made on our manufacturing streamlining programme. • All product lines have been transferred from Glenrothes, Scotland to our new UK Precision Optics hub in Ilminster and the Glenrothes site has been closed. • Outsourcing o
Slide 6: Our Strategy
Our Strategy Remains diversification & moving up the value chain Diversify Aim to establish ‘critical mass’ in both the A&D and life science sectors and in an ‘ideal world’ there would be an equal split between the three market sectors across G&H. A&D now represents about one third of Group revenue
Slide 7: R&D – enabling new applications
R&D – enabling new applications Aerospace & Industrial & Space Sensing Bio-photonics Defence Telecoms Amplifiers and Super-broadband & Next-generation Fibre- Photonic devices for Acousto-optic deflectors transmitters for satellite lightweight imaging Qs for sensing in Oil, cardiovascular OCT for mic
Slide 8: Space programme
Space programme Inter-satellite links (Japanese Data Relay System, JAXA) World’s first 1550nm amplifier system flying in GEO orbit (28/11/20) Delivered second amplifier system for LEO spacecraft Deep space missions (Perseverance Rover, NASA) Acousto-optic technology on the surface of Mars (landed: 1
Slide 9: Summary and Outlook
Summary and Outlook • G&H has a world class photonics capability and is well placed to take advantage of the opportunities in our target sectors. • FY 2020 was a challenging year due to the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are proud of the way our staff responded and we were able to exit i
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