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VODAFONE GROUP PLC
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Results of Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of Vodafone Group Plc was held at The Pavilion, Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 2FN on Tuesday 27 July 2021 at 10.00 am.
The results of polls on all 23 resolutions were as follows:
Resolution | Total votes validly cast | Percentage of relevant shares in issue (%) | For | For (% of shares voted) | Against | Against (% of shares voted) | Votes withheld | |
1. | To receive the Company's accounts, the strategic report and reports of the Directors and the auditor for the year ended 31 March 2021. | 17,132,724,181 | 61.60 | 17,125,806,638 | 99.96 | 6,917,543 | 0.04 | 23,915,195 |
2. | To elect Olaf Swantee as a Director. | 17,130,076,272 | 61.59 | 17,095,470,221 | 99.80 | 34,606,051 | 0.20 | 26,435,255 |
3. | To re-elect Jean-François van Boxmeer as a Director. | 17,131,196,388 | 61.59 | 16,235,434,377 | 94.77 | 895,762,011 | 5.23 | 25,534,309 |
4. | To re-elect Nick Read as a Director. | 17,131,339,238 | 61.59 | 17,088,602,622 | 99.75 | 42,736,616 | 0.25 | 25,271,692 |
5. | To re-elect Margherita Della Valle as a Director. | 17,131,587,069 | 61.59 | 17,084,011,783 | 99.72 | 47,575,286 | 0.28 | 24,992,962 |
6. | To re-elect Sir Crispin Davis as a Director. | 17,130,152,964 | 61.59 | 17,009,929,952 | 99.30 | 120,223,012 | 0.70 | 26,432,593 |
7. | To re-elect Michel Demaré as a Director. | 17,129,962,222 | 61.59 | 17,061,166,726 | 99.60 | 68,795,496 | 0.40 | 26,647,135 |
8. | To re-elect Dame Clara Furse as a Director. | 17,130,989,026 | 61.59 | 17,094,737,047 | 99.79 | 36,251,979 | 0.21 | 25,620,151 |
9 | To re-elect Valerie Gooding as a Director. | 17,130,841,063 | 61.59 | 16,872,817,032 | 98.49 | 258,024,031 | 1.51 | 25,768,550 |
10. | To re-elect Maria Amparo Moraleda Martinez as a Director. | 17,131,017,933 | 61.59 | 16,466,110,256 | 96.12 | 664,907,677 | 3.88 | 25,591,305 |
11. | To re-elect Sanjiv Ahuja as a Director. | RESOLUTION WITHDRAWN | ||||||
12. | To re-elect David Nish as a Director. | 17,125,461,561 | 61.57 | 17,056,275,299 | 99.60 | 69,186,262 | 0.40 | 31,110,498 |
13. | To declare a final dividend of 4.50 eurocents per ordinary share for the year ended 31 March 2021. | 17,146,267,777 | 61.64 | 17,016,928,924 | 99.25 | 129,338,853 | 0.75 | 10,335,481 |
14. | To approve the Annual Report on Remuneration contained in the Remuneration Report of the Board for the year ended 31 March 2021.
| 17,131,306,675 | 61.59 | 16,729,088,541 | 97.65 | 402,218,134 | 2.35 | 25,262,861 |
15. | To reappoint Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's auditor until the end of the next general meeting at which accounts are laid before the Company. | 17,142,233,659 | 61.63 | 16,713,626,165 | 97.50 | 428,607,494 | 2.50 | 14,379,508 |
16. | To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditor. | 17,140,202,508 | 61.62 | 16,873,583,470 | 98.44 | 266,619,038 | 1.56 | 16,372,690 |
17. | To authorise the Directors to allot shares | 17,134,515,551 | 61.60 | 16,058,241,382 | 93.72 | 1,076,274,169 | 6.28 | 22,070,445 |
18. | To authorise the Directors to dis-apply pre-emption rights. | 17,109,183,719 | 61.51 | 16,767,989,818 | 98.01 | 341,193,901 | 1.99 | 47,381,780 |
19. | To authorise the Directors to dis-apply pre-emption rights up to a further 5 per cent for the purposes of financing an acquisition or other capital investment. | 17,120,134,729 | 61.55 | 16,370,746,771 | 95.62 | 749,387,958 | 4.38 | 36,451,703 |
20. | To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares. | 17,135,194,625 | 61.61 | 16,843,308,960 | 98.30 | 291,885,665 | 1.70 | 21,372,240 |
21. | To approve the adoption of new articles of association. | 17,113,903,563 | 61.53 | 17,080,074,901 | 99.80 | 33,828,662 | 0.20 | 42,680,690 |
22. | To authorise political donations and expenditure. | 17,119,587,463 | 61.55 | 16,817,937,876 | 98.24 | 301,649,587 | 1.76 | 33,749,912 |
23. | To authorise the Company to call general meetings (other than AGMs) on a minimum of 14 clear days' notice. | 17,125,163,856 | 61.57 | 16,158,288,221 | 94.35 | 966,875,635 | 5.65 | 30,879,790 |
The number of Ordinary Shares in issue on 23 July 2021 (excluding shares held in Treasury) was 27,814,578,745. 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 17 (inclusive) and 22 were passed as Ordinary Resolutions. Resolutions 18 to 21 (inclusive) and 23 were passed as Special Resolutions.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of Resolutions 21 to 23 (inclusive), passed as Special Business at the Annual General Meeting, have been submitted to the Financial Conduct Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
Other matters
Following conclusion of the Annual General Meeting, the below changes to the composition of the Board and its Committees were effective:
- Olaf Swantee was appointed as a Non-Executive Director and became a member of the Audit and Risk Committee;
- Sanjiv Ahuja retired as a Non-Executive Director and member of the Audit and Risk Committee; and
- Renee James retired as a Non-Executive Director and member of the Nominations and Governance and Remuneration Committees.
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