3rd Jul 2006 17:05
Vodafone Group Plc03 July 2006 Vodafone Group Plc ("the Company") In accordance with Section 329 of the Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure Rule3.1.4R(1) of the Disclosure Rules sourcebook, I have to inform you of thefollowing changes in share interests of directors and PDMRs of the Company: Number of ordinary shares of US$0.10 in the capital of Vodafone Group Plc A B C D E Vesting of long Vesting of short No. of No. of shares AllShares term incentive term incentive shares sold transferred awards award shares award shares (3) (4) (5) (1) (2)Arun Sarin* 481,509 1,520,600 820,865 1,181,244 340Thomas Geitner* 204,006 - 83,643 120,363 340Andrew Nigel Halford* 43,318 292,299 137,604 198,013 340Sir Julian Horn-Smith* 281,880 - 281,880 - -James Brian Clark 125,783 - 46,540 79,243 340Paul Michael Donovan 63,081 - 25,864 37,217 340Warren Finegold - - - - 340Alan Paul Harper 115,884 585,536 287,583 413,837 340Simon David Lewis - - - - 340Timothy Marshall Miles - - - - 340William Thomas Morrow - - - - 340Frank Rovekamp - - - - 340Stephen Roy Scott 86,999 - 35,670 51,329 340 * Denotes Director of the Company (1) The Trustees of the Vodafone Group Employee Trust have resolved torelease these shares to directors following assessment of the performance,time and employment conditions to which the awards were subject. Based on theperformance achieved, 26.1% of the shares comprised in the original award havevested and the remainder of the award has lapsed. The awards were granted on 30July 2003, with the exception of Andy Halford and Paul Donovan whose awards weregranted on 1 July 2003, in accordance with the Vodafone Group Plc 1999 Long TermStock Incentive Plan. The figures in column A are the number of sharescomprised in the vested percentage of the original award. (2) The Trustees of the Vodafone Group Employee Trust have resolvedto release these shares following assessment of the performance, time andemployment conditions to which the awards were subject. Based on theperformance achieved, 100% of the shares comprised in the original award havevested. The awards were granted on 1 July 2004 in accordance with the VodafoneGroup Short Term Incentive Plan. (3) The figures in column C are the number of shares out of thoselisted in columns A and B that the Company has been advised by Mourant & Co weresold by the Trustees of the Vodafone Group Employee Trust on 30 June 2006.These share sales were made at 115.2368 pence per share on behalf of thedirectors / PDMRs to satisfy the tax liabilities arising on the release of theshares to the directors /PDMRs. In addition, 166,309 shares were sold on behalfof Sir Julian Horn-Smith at a price of 115.2368 pence per share. (4) The figures in column D are the net number of shares that the Company has been advised by Mourant & Co were on 30 June 2006 transferred from the Trustees to the directors/PDMRs in satisfaction of the vesting of the long term and short term awards of shares disclosed in columns A and B. (5) An award of 340 shares was today granted on an all employee basis by the Trustees of the Vodafone Global Employee Share Trust. The awards have been made in accordance with the Vodafone Global Incentive Plan. The shares were awarded at a price of 115.25 pence per share. The vesting of these awards is conditional on continued employment with the Vodafone Group until 3 July 2008. As a result of the above, the interests in shares (excluding share options andunvested incentive shares) of the following Directors are as follows: Mr A Sarin 6,850,907Mr T Geitner 571,919Mr A Halford 588,722Sir Julian Horn-Smith 1,829,599 S R ScottCompany Secretary This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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