Result of AGM
Vodafone Group PLC
31 July 2002
31 July 2002
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 Wednesday 31
July 2002.
The results of the polls on all resolutions were as follows:
RESOLUTION FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN
1 To receive the report of the 36,700,292,722 246,907,813 530,729,224
directors and financial statements
2 To approve the Remuneration Policy 31,670,534,299 3,566,030,214 2,244,908,172
3 To re-appoint Dr Michael Boskin as a 36,936,193,524 261,201,169 285,089,744
director
4 To re-appoint Paul Hazen as a 34,819,366,352 932,463,815 1,730,654,923
director
5 To re-appoint Penny Hughes as a 36,942,162,948 254,165,340 284,752,288
director
6 To re-appoint Arun Sarin as a 33,722,063,893 1,863,463,827 1,892,647,893
director
7 To elect Vittorio Colao as a director 37,070,467,236 162,658,817 245,502,006
8 To approve a final dividend of 37,244,191,050 37,760,247 200,680,101
0.7497p per ordinary share
9 To re-appoint Deloitte & Touche as 34,732,982,831 1,726,705,564 1,022,843,903
auditors
10 To authorise the directors to fix the 35,501,678,884 171,627,620 1,809,115,971
auditors' remuneration
11 To authorise donations under the 34,112,428,593 1,510,957,917 1,844,070,548
Political Parties, Elections and
Referendums Act 2000
12 To renew authority to allot shares 36,281,478,005 920,814,426 274,104,600
under Article 16.2 of the Company's
Articles of Association
13 To renew authority to disapply 36,160,078,948 1,062,693,107 236,116,066
pre-emption rights under Article 16.3
of the Company's Articles of
Association
14 To authorise the Company's purchase 37,072,810,489 69,723,442 220,198,581
of its own shares (section 166,
Companies Act 1985)
Accordingly resolutions 1 to 12 were passed as ordinary resolutions and
resolutions 13 and 14 were passed as special resolutions.
SR Scott
Company Secretary
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