4th May 2005 07:00
Vodafone Group Plc04 May 2005 VODAFONE GROUP PLC PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES Vodafone Group Plc ("Vodafone") announces today that it has purchased thefollowing number of its ordinary shares of U.S.$0.10 each on the London StockExchange via Lehman Brothers International (Europe). Such purchase was effectedby irrevocable instruction given prior to 1 April 2005 as announced by Vodafoneon 29 March 2005. Ordinary Shares Date of purchase: 3 May 2005 Number of ordinary shares purchased: 22,500,000 Highest purchase price paid per share: 138p Lowest purchase price paid per share: 136.75p Volume weighted average price per share: 137.3328p Cumulative consideration (including costs) of ordinary shares purchased from and including 1 April 2005: £478,305,029 Vodafone intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury. Following the purchase of these shares, Vodafone holds 4,128,500,000 of itsordinary shares in treasury and has 64,260,631,640 ordinary shares in issue(excluding treasury shares). This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or anysolicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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