28th Apr 2005 07:00
Vodafone Group Plc28 April 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 Goldman Sachs International. Such purchase was effected byirrevocable instruction given prior to 1 April 2005 as announced by Vodafone on29 March 2005. Ordinary Shares - Date of purchase: 27 April 2005 Number of ordinary shares purchased: 21,500,000 Highest purchase price paid per share: 136p Lowest purchase price paid per share: 135.25p Volume weighted average price per share: 135.5768p Cumulative consideration (including costs) of ordinary shares £392,547,959purchased from and including 1 April 2005: Vodafone intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury. Following the purchase of these shares, Vodafone holds 4,066,000,000 of itsordinary shares in treasury and has 64,322,706,378 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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