Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 7556Z

Vodafone Group Plc

24 July 2008

 



VODAFONE GROUP PLC 

PURCHASE OF OWN SECURITIES

Vodafone Group Plc ('Vodafone') announces today that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of U.S.$0.10 each on the London Stock Exchange via Goldman Sachs International.

Ordinary Shares
Date of purchase:	23 July 2008
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	80,614,022
Highest purchase price paid per share:	134.25p
Lowest purchase price paid per share:	128p
Volume weighted average price per share:	131.4862p

Vodafone intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

TRANSFER OF TREASURY SHARES

Vodafone also announces today that it has transferred to participants in its employee share schemes the following number of its ordinary shares of U.S.$0.113/7 each, which were previously held as treasury shares.

Ordinary Shares
Date of transfer:	23 July 2008
Number of ordinary shares transferred:	7,661
Highest transfer price per share:	149.25p
Lowest transfer price per share:	149.25p

Following both the above transactions, Vodafone holds 5,188,572,083 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 53,115,523,932 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). 

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.

 

END

 

 

POSSELFWDSASESW