Result of AGM - Amendment

RNS Number : 0314Q

Vodafone Group Plc

27 July 2010

 



The following is an amendment of an announcement released earlier today under RNS number:  0259Q.  The commas in the votes withheld column for resolutions 10 and 13 were in the wrong place and have been changed for clarity.  The numbers themselves remain unchanged.

27 July 2010

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of Vodafone Group Plc was held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1 on Tuesday 27 July 2010.

The results of polls on all 24 resolutions were as follows:

	Resolution	Total votes validly cast	Percentage of relevant shares in issue (%)	For	Against	Votes withheld
1.	Receive the Companies accounts and  reports of the directors and the auditor	36,464,016,265	69.14	36,309,102,184	154,914,081	98,052,123
2.	Re-elect Sir John Bond as a director	36,505,298,394	69.21	34,118,699,550	2,386,598,844	56,791,196
3.	Re-elect John Buchanan as a director	36,505,292,735	69.21	34,341,247,890	2,164,044,845	56,766,720
4.	Re-elect Vittorio Colao as a director	36,505,148,750	69.21	36,192,626,003	312,522,747	56,865,050
5.	Re-elect Michel Combes as a director	36,504,833,476	69.21	36,119,049,658	385,783,818	57,182,362
6.	Re-elect Andy Halford as a director	36,505,056,953	69.21	36,107,494,431	397,562,522	56,960,924
7.	Re-elect Stephen Pusey as a director	36,505,255,751	69.21	36,120,654,287	384,601,464	56,733,420
8.	Re-elect Alan Jebson as a director	36,505,122,299	69.21	36,241,980,514	263,141,785	56,894,023
9.	Re-elect Samuel  Jonah as a director	36,505,205,215	69.21	36,219,804,786	285,400,429	56,813,125
10.	Re-elect Nick Land as a director	36,141,132,773	68.52	35,054,911,298	1,086,221,475	415,469,934
11.	Re-elect Anne Lauvergeon as a director	36,500,442,563	69.20	35,407,102,176	1,093,340,387	56,159,346
12.	Re-elect Luc Vandevelde as a director	36,505,021,467	69.21	36,225,973,980	279,047,487	56,941,548
13.	Re-elect Anthony Watson as a director	36,147,286,167	68.54	35,762,501,731	384,784,436	414,729,898
14.	Re-elect Philip Yea as a director	36,501,468,421	69.21	36,194,634,619	306,833,802	60,549,228
15.	Approve the final dividend of 5.65 pence per share	36,502,681,383	69.21	36,373,859,360	128,822,023	59,420,250
16.	Approve the Remuneration Report	36,180,637,330	68.60	34,739,599,342	1,441,037,988	380,323,800
17.	Re-appoint Deloitte LLP as auditor	36,438,385,680	69.09	36,256,584,964	181,800,716	123,669,513
18.	Authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration	36,504,604,086	69.21	36,358,874,519	145,729,567	57,474,913
19.	Authority to allot shares	36,074,016,787	68.40	32,716,428,184	3,357,588,603	488,075,532
20.	Disapplication of pre-emption rights	36,388,204,355	68.99	34,047,954,721	2,340,249,634	173,816,479
21.	Approval of market purchases of ordinary shares	36,480,864,056	69.17	36,224,397,776	256,466,280	80,245,291
22.	Adopt new Articles of Association	36,147,223,928	68.53	35,756,481,480	390,742,448	413,862,951
23.	Authorise the calling of a General Meeting other than an AGM on 14 days' notice	36,374,023,618	68.96	33,564,839,270	2,809,184,348	180,257,792
24.	Approval of amendments to the Vodafone Share Incentive Plan	36,472,839,412	69.15	35,949,271,233	523,568,179	70,720,690

The number of ordinary shares in issue on 23 July 2010 (excluding shares held in Treasury) was 52,742,800,556. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes validly cast.

Resolutions 1 to 19 and resolution 24 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 20 to 23 were passed as special resolutions.

A copy of resolutions 22, 23 and 24 passed as special business at the Annual General Meeting is being submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the UKLA document viewing facility, which is situated at:

Financial Services Authority

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf

London

For further information:

Vodafone Group

Investor Relations	Media Relations
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