Annual General Meeting

Annual General Meeting

2012

The twenty-eighth Annual General Meeting of Vodafone Group Plc was held at the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel, 45 Prescot Street, London E1 8GP on Tuesday 24 July 2012 at 11:00am

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Notice of Annual General Meeting (PDF 542kb)

Result of Annual General Meeting

  Resolution Total votes validly cast Percentage of relevant shares in issue (%) For Against Votes withheld
1 To receive the Company’s accounts and reports of the directors and the auditor for the year ended 31 March 2012 34,380,641,209 69.83% 34,333,448,024 47,193,185 74,483,836
2 To re-elect Gerard Kleisterlee as a director 34,392,476,457 69.86% 34,092,284,235 300,192,222 64,228,325
3 To re-elect Vittorio Colao as a director 34,394,274,995 69.86% 34,343,552,418 50,722,577 62,537,408
4 To re-elect Andy Halford as a director 34,394,022,192 69.86% 34,269,909,936 124,112,256 62,411,557
5 To re-elect Stephen Pusey as a director 34,393,427,113 69.86% 34,256,842,392 136,584,721 62,652,434
6 To re-elect Renee James as a director 34,393,400,973 69.86% 34,270,855,092 122,545,881 63,289,972
7 To re-elect Alan Jebson as a director 34,392,883,695 69.86% 34,337,712,032 55,171,663 63,711,455
8 To elect Samual Jonah as a director 34,392,468,582 69.86% 34,302,643,063 89,825,519 63,869,563
9 To re-elect Nick Land as a director 34,392,445,121 69.86% 34,339,094,014 53,351,107 63,876,119
10 To re-elect Anne Lauvergeon as a director 34,393,517,733 69.86% 34,347,176,788 46,340,945 63,183,545
11 To re-elect Luc Vandevelde as a director 34,389,804,398 69.85% 34,147,056,888 242,747,510 66,442,774
12 To re-elect Anthony Watson as a director 34,392,403,785 69.86% 34,296,448,955 95,954,830 63,962,883
13 To re-elect Philip Yea as a director 34,389,267,546 69.85% 34,214,231,645 175,035,901 66,266,858
14 To approve a final dividend of 6.47p per ordinary share 34,404,095,414 69.88% 34,391,449,274 12,646,140 53,234,312
15 To approve the Remuneration Report of the Board for the year ended 31 March 2012 34,241,413,948 69.55% 33,021,459,248 1,219,954,700 214,955,363
16 To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as auditor 34,347,695,643 69.77% 34,171,339,519 176,356,124 109,231,848
17 To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditor 34,396,683,277 69.87% 34,342,335,693 54,347,584 60,090,899
18 To authorise the directors to allot shares 33,923,420,245 68.91% 31,620,687,343 2,302,732,902 532,273,250
19 To authorise the directors to dis-apply pre-emption rights 34,280,219,198 69.63% 33,660,419,666 619,799,532 175,033,672
20 To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares 34,389,696,723 69.85% 34,270,792,446 118,904,277 66,519,445
21 To authorise political donations and expenditure 34,294,607,257 69.66% 33,316,832,835 977,774,422 161,555,554
22 To authorise the calling of a general meeting other than an Annual General Meeting on not less that 14 clear days' notice 34,358,979,563 69.79% 30,679,931,148 3,679,048,415 96,540,560

The number of ordinary shares in issue on 20 July 2012 (excluding shares held in Treasury) was 49,231,385,810. 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 18 and 21 were passed as ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 19, 20 and 22 were passed as special resolutions.

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