GOOCH & HOUSEGO PLC

• ⚠

  Confirmation statement overdue

  Due 2026-05-14.

• ◆

  4 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

• Turnover

  +10.7%

  £135,990,000 → £150,485,000

• Cash

  +8.7%

  £6,622,000 → £7,198,000

• Net assets

  +8.3%

  £108,388,000 → £117,437,000

• Employees

  +7%

  911 → 975

• Operating profit

  -22.5%

  £10,502,000 → £8,134,000

• Profit before tax

  -34.3%

  £8,107,000 → £5,327,000

• Wages

  +16.7%

  £46,938,000 → £54,790,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

1. GOOCH & HOUSEGO PLC 1997-12-01 → present
2. GOOCH AND HOUSEGO LIMITED 1953-12-12 → 1997-12-01

Accounting basis

IFRS

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Directors have reviewed the current financial forecasts for FY2026. They have assessed the future funding requirements of the Group and compared them with available borrowing facilities. They have also reviewed forecast performance against our banking covenants. Details of the financial and liquidity positions of the Group are given on page 30.”

Group structure

1. GOOCH & HOUSEGO PLC · parent
   1. Gooch & Housego (UK) Limited 100% · UK · Manufacturer of acousto-optic products and precision optics
   2. Gooch & Housego (Torquay) Limited 100% · UK · Manufacturer of fibre-optic products
   3. Spanoptic Limited 100% · UK · Non trading company
   4. Kent Periscopes Limited 100% · UK · Non trading company
   5. Gooch & Housego (Deutschland) GmbH 100% · Germany · Provider of sales and customer service functions
   6. Gooch & Housego (Ohio) LLC 100% · USA · Manufacturer of electro-optic products and crystals
   7. Gooch & Housego (California) LLC 100% · USA · Manufacturer of precision optics
   8. Gooch & Housego (Palo Alto) LLC 100% · USA · Manufacturer of acousto-optic, electro-optic and fibre optic components and systems
   9. Gooch & Housego (Keene) LLC 100% · USA · Designer and manufacturer of optical glass components and subsystems
   10. Gooch & Housego Japan KK 100% · Japan · Provider of sales and customer service functions
   11. G&H (Property) Holdings Limited 100% · UK · Property holding company
   12. G&H (US Holdings) Limited 100% · USA · Holding company
   13. G&H Holdings (Delaware) Inc. 100% · USA · Holding company
   14. G&H Capital Holdings (Florida) Inc. 100% · USA · Non trading company
   15. Integrated Technologies Limited 100% · UK · Development and manufacture of high quality medical and in vitro diagnostic devices
   16. Integrated Technologies (Holdings) Limited 100% · UK · Non-trading company
   17. ORF Limited 100% · UK · Dormant company
   18. VITL Limited 100% · UK · Holding company
   19. Wave Optronics Limited 100% · UK · Dormant company
   20. Chromodynamics LLC 100% · USA · Dormant company
   21. G&H ITL (US) Inc. 100% · USA · Development and manufacture of high quality medical and in vitro diagnostic devices
   22. Integrated Electronic Systems (Shanghai) Ltd 100% · China · Development and manufacture of high quality medical and in vitro diagnostic devices
   23. Artemis Optical Holdings Ltd 100% · UK · Holding company
   24. Artemis Optical Ltd 100% · UK · Thin-film coating company
   25. GS Optics LLC 100% · USA · Design and manufacture of precision polymer optics
   26. Phoenix Optical Technologies Limited 100% · UK · Manufacture of precision optics
   27. Phoenix Optical Technologies Holdings Limited 100% · UK · Non-trading holding company
   28. Orion Photonics Limited 100% · UK · Non-trading company
   29. Fawkes NewCo 2 Limited 100% · UK · Non-trading company
   30. G&H Florida Inc 100% · USA · Designer and manufacturer of optical systems
   31. G&H Investment Holding Inc 100% · USA · Non-trading company

Significant events

• “On 8 October 2025, the Company issued 84,477 new ordinary shares of 20p each as final consideration payment in relation to the acquisition of Global Photonics which completed on 18 June 2025.”
• “In November 2025, the Group established the Gooch & Housego Employee Benefit Trust, which will be used to enable future vesting of nil cost long term incentives.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

12

last 12 months

Capital events

2

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

4

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.