Gooch & Housego PLC · LSE:GHH
Gooch & Housego — Shareholder Meeting (March 2009)
15 slides from Gooch & Housego's shareholder meeting presentation, Mar 31, 2009
Slide 1: Annual General Meeting Shareholder Presentation
Annual General Meeting 31st March 2009 Shareholder Presentation
Slide 2: Gooch & Housego PLC: A Global Technology Business
Gooch & Housego PLC A Global Technology Business The medium we work with is LIGHT The technology is PHOTONICS G&H provides ‘enabling optical technologies’
Slide 3: A Global Business
A Global Business Cleveland, Ilminster Norderstedt Ohio Denver, (Hamburg) Torquay Colorado San Francisco, California Munich Hong Kong Moorpark, California Orlando, Florida Melbourne, Founded in Ilminster 1948 Florida Lakewood, New Jersey Total Number of Employees: 460 8 Facilities 4 Sales Offices
Slide 4: Our strategy
Our strategy Drive growth, reduce risk and increase product and market diversity by: - • Developing new products • Adding new technologies and capabilities • Targeting new growth markets • Integrating components into modules, instruments and systems
Slide 5: Major achievements in the past 12 months
Major achievements in the past 12 months New state-of-the-art facility in Ilminster, UK • 2x increase in manufacturing space • 5x increase in size of coating department • Cleanrooms and environmental controls Acquisition of General Optics (Moorpark, Ca) • World-leader in super-polished optics • Stro
Slide 6: The Economic Downturn
The Economic Downturn Most impact has been felt in our core industrial market • Semiconductors and microelectronics • General industrial manufacturing using lasers New markets less affected • Aerospace & defence • Life Sciences • Undersea fibre optic telecommunications Research market holding up • B
Slide 7: Examples and pictures of General Optics and the new Ilminster factory
Some examples and pictures of: - The capabilities of General Optics (acquired October 2008) The new Ilminster factory and HQ (occupied March 2008)
Slide 8: Example - polishing capability at G&H California
Example - polishing capability at G&H California Ultimate Quality Super-polish Very good polish
Slide 9: Example - polishing capability at G&H California
Example - polishing capability at G&H California Thickness correction of a 100mm Dia Si Wafer Thickness = 0.414mm Before After PV = 70 nm PV = 10 nm
Slide 10: Ilminster HQ
Ilminster HQ
Slide 11: Ilminster – part of a global precision optics production capability
Ilminster – part of a global precision optics production capability • G&H Ilminster, UK 50,000sq ft, 130 miles west of London, 125 employees • G&H Moorpark, Ca 50,000sq ft, 60 miles NW of Los Angeles 95 employees • G&H Cleveland, Ohio 50,000sq ft, 45 employees Part of new Ilminster facility
Slide 12: New Ilminster facility – coating department
New Ilminster facility – coating department
Slide 13: Inside the new Ilminster facility
Inside the new Ilminster facility
Slide 14: Products and Operations
Products and Operations
Slide 15: Gooch & Housego
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