Gooch & Housego

FTSE Russell, the index provider, said on October 13, 2026 that, if the court sanctions the scheme of arrangement for Greenlight Bidco Limited's cash acquisition of Gooch & Housego, it will delete Gooch & Housego from its FTSE UK Index Series.

Key details

• The deletion takes effect from the start of trading on October 16, 2026 in the FTSE AIM UK 50 Index, the FTSE AIM 100 Index and the FTSE AIM All-Share Index. AIM is the Alternative Investment Market.
• The takeover is to be carried out by a scheme of arrangement, a takeover method that needs a court's sanction. The buyer, Greenlight Bidco Limited, is not a constituent (member) of these indexes.

What’s still pending

• The index deletion is subject to the court sanctioning the scheme of arrangement for the cash acquisition by Greenlight Bidco Limited.

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