AGM Statement
Vodafone Group Plc
27 July 2004
27 July 2004
VODAFONE GROUP PLC - 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 2004.
The results of the polls on all resolutions were as follows:
RESOLUTION FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN
1 To receive the report of 40,916,650,436 88,978,838 1,087,462,714
the directors and financial
statements
2 To approve the Remuneration 39,968,730,817 1,556,484,317 567,871,132
Report
3 To re-elect Peter Bamford 41,529,643,668 387,005,997 171,088,880
as a director
4 To re-elect Sir Julian 41,526,507,749 389,362,648 171,864,964
Horn-Smith as a director
5 To re-elect Sir David 40,747,804,740 426,942,144 912,988,337
Scholey as a director
6 To elect Luc Vandevelde as 41,447,568,773 465,894,083 174,275,058
a director
7 To approve a final dividend 41,884,742,092 34,768,187 168,221,487
of 1.0780p per ordinary
share
8 To re-appoint Deloitte & 40,617,837,130 466,917,317 1,008,343,250
Touche LLP as auditors
9 To authorise the Audit 40,902,079,686 583,091,325 607,871,600
Committee to determine the
auditors' remuneration
10 To authorise donations 40,745,440,254 809,364,891 532,870,529
under the Political
Parties, Elections and
Referendums Act 2000
11 To renew authority to allot 41,527,382,489 339,974,088 225,735,688
shares under Article 16.2 of
the Company's Articles of
Association
12 To renew authority to disapply 41,502,714,911 471,774,454 118,607,345
pre-emption rights under
Article 16.3 of the Company's
Articles of Association
13 To authorise the Company's 41,258,341,563 229,867,566 604,887,454
purchase of its own shares
(section 166, Companies Act
1985)
14 To authorise the Company's 41,033,066,795 271,236,270 783,411,808
purchase of its own shares
pursuant to contingent purchase
contracts and off-market
purchases
Accordingly resolutions 1 to 11 were passed as ordinary resolutions and
resolutions 12 to 14 were passed as special resolutions.
SR Scott
Company Secretary
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