12th May 2005 07:00
Vodafone Group Plc12 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 UBS Limited. Such purchase was effected by irrevocable instructiongiven prior to 1 April 2005 as announced by Vodafone on 29 March 2005. Ordinary Shares Date of purchase: 11 May 2005 Number of ordinary shares purchased: 7,500,000 Highest purchase price paid per share: 139.75p Lowest purchase price paid per share: 137.625p Volume weighted average price per share: 139.022p Cumulative consideration (including costs) of ordinary £559,805,457shares purchased from and including 1 April 2005: Vodafone intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury. Following the purchase of these shares, Vodafone holds 4,187,000,000 of itsordinary shares in treasury and has 64,203,275,486 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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