2014 Award Announcement

RNS Number : 1546L

Vodafone Group Plc

01 July 2014

 



Vodafone Group Plc ("the Company")

In accordance with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.4R(1), the Company gives notice of the following changes in share interests of directors and persons discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMRs") of the Company:

	Number of ordinary share of US$0.20 20/21 in the capital of Vodafone Group Plc
	Award of performance shares (3)
Vittorio Colao*(1)	3,350,011
Nicholas Read*(1)	1,792,668
Stephen Pusey*(1)	833,113
Paolo Bertoluzzo(1)	1,541,814
Paolo Bertoluzzo(2)	175,958
Warren Finegold(1)	1,275,190
Warren Finegold(2)	140,417
Philipp Humm(1)	1,674,657
Philipp Humm(2)	184,404
Nicholas Jeffery(1)	1,076,566
Nicholas Jeffery(2)	118,545
Matthew Kirk(1)	699,828
Rosemary Martin(1)	992,832
Rosemary Martin(2)	109,325
Ronald Schellekens(1)	1,086,801
Ronald Schellekens(2)	130,400
Serpil Timuray(1)	1,196,184

^* Denotes Director of the Company

(1) Conditional awards of shares were granted on 26 June 2014 by the Company. The awards have been granted in accordance with the Vodafone Global Incentive Plan (incorporating co-investment). The vesting of these awards is conditional on continued employment with the Vodafone Group, retention of co-investment and on the satisfaction of a performance condition approved by the Remuneration Committee. The performance condition is based on free cash flow performance with a multiplier that is based on comparative total shareholder return ("TSR") performance. The free cash flow performance is based on a three year cumulative adjusted free cash flow figure. The target adjusted free cash flow level is set by reference to the Company's three year plan and market expectations; 100% of the award will vest for target performance, rising to 125% vesting for maximum performance. The multiplier is based on the TSR of the Company over the three year performance period 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2017 relative to a peer group of seven companies within the Telecoms sector. There will be no increase in vesting until TSR performance exceeds median, at which point the multiplier will increase up to two on a linear basis for upper quintile performance. The maximum vesting is 250%: for maximum free cash flow performance (125%) and maximum TSR performance (multiplier of 2). For further details of the Plan, please see page 84 of the Company's 2014 Annual Report, available at www.vodafone.com/investor.

(2)  Additional conditional awards of shares were granted on 26 June 2014 by the Company. The awards have been granted in accordance with the rules of the Vodafone Global Incentive Plan and are in relation to achievements under the annual bonus for the 2013/14 performance year .   The vesting of these awards is two years from grant and is conditional on continued employment with the Vodafone Group.

(3)  The Directors and other PDMRs are subject to the Company's share ownership guidelines, which provide that they will acquire and maintain minimum levels of shareholding. The levels are four times salary for the Chief Executive, three times salary for other Board Directors and two times salary for the other PDMRs, who are members of the Executive Committee.

In addition, the Company was advised on 27 June 2014 by UBS Trustees (Jersey) Limited that on 26 June 2014 Philipp Humm transferred an interest in shares acquired for co-investment purposes resulting in the lapse of 1,292,307 shares granted on 14 November 2012.

In addition, the Company gives notice that on 26 June 2014, Francesca Fiore, a connected person of Paolo Bertoluzzo, received an award of performance shares over 90,443 ordinary shares. The award has been granted in accordance with the Vodafone Global Incentive Plan.  The vesting of this award is conditional on continued employment with the Vodafone Group and on the satisfaction of a performance condition approved by the Remuneration Committee

The Company was notified of these changes on 30 June 2014.

 

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