Vodafone 2006 Annual Report Download - page 143

Vodafone Group Plc Annual Report 2006 141
Online shareholder services
The Company provides a number of shareholder services online at
www.vodafone.com/shareholder, where shareholders may:
•Register to receive electronic shareholder communications. Benefits to shareholders
include faster receipt of communications such as annual reports, with cost and time
savings for the Company. Electronic shareholder communications are also more
environmentally friendly;
•View a live webcast of the AGM of the Company on 25 July 2006. A recording will be
available to review after that date;
•View and/or download the Annual Report and the Annual Review & Summary
Financial Statement 2006;
•Check the current share price;
•Calculate dividend payments; and
•Use interactive tools to calculate the value of shareholdings, look up the historic price
on a particular date and chart Vodafone ordinary share price changes against indices.
Shareholders and other interested parties can also receive Company press releases,
including London Stock Exchange announcements, by registering for Vodafone News via
the Company’s website at www.vodafone.com/news.
Registering for Vodafone News will enable users to:
•be alerted by free SMS as soon as news breaks;
•access the latest news from their mobile; and
•have news automatically e-mailed to them.
Annual General Meeting
The twenty-second AGM of the Company will be held at The Queen Elizabeth II
Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1 on 25 July 2006 at
11.00 a.m. or, if later, on conclusion of the Extraordinary General Meeting to be held
immediately before it at 10.45 a.m.
The Notice of Meeting, together with details of the business to be conducted at the
Meeting, is being circulated to shareholders with this Annual Report or the Annual
Review & Summary Financial Statement and can be viewed at the Company’s
website – www.vodafone.com/agm.
The AGM will be transmitted via a live webcast and can be viewed at the Company’s
website – www.vodafone.com/agm – on the day of the meeting and a recording will be
available to review after that date.
To find out more about the AGM and how to view the webcast, visit
www.vodafone.com/agm.
Corporate sponsored nominee service for shareholders
Subject to changes to the Company’s Articles of Association being approved at the
Annual General Meeting on 25 July 2006, the Company intends to establish a Corporate
Nominee Service for Shareholders, which would be operated by the Company’s Registrar.
The service provides a facility for shareholders to remove their shares from the Vodafone
Group Plc share register and hold them, together with other shareholders through a
nominee. There would be no need for a share certificate and, in addition, shareholders’
details will not be held on the main register and so will remain confidential.
Details will be available frollowing the AGM on the Company’s website at
www.vodafone.com/shareholder.
ShareGift
The Company supports ShareGift, the charity share donation scheme (registered charity
number 1052686). Through ShareGift, shareholders who have only a very small number
of shares which might be considered uneconomic to sell are able to donate them to
charity. Donated shares are aggregated and sold by ShareGift, the proceeds being passed
on to a wide range of UK charities. Donating shares to charity gives rise neither to a gain
nor a loss for UK Capital Gains purposes and UK taxpayers may also be able to claim
income tax relief on the value of the donation.
ShareGift transfer forms specifically for the Company’s shareholders are available from
the Company’s Registrars, Computershare Investor Services PLC and, even if the share
certificate has been lost or destroyed, the gift can be completed. The service is generally
free. However, there may be an indemnity charge for a lost or destroyed share certificate
where the value of the shares exceeds £100. Further details about ShareGift can be
obtained from its website at www.ShareGift.org or at 5 Lower Grosvenor Place, London
SW1W 0EJ (telephone: [phone]).
The Unclaimed Assets Register
The Company participates in the Unclaimed Assets Register, which provides a search
facility for financial assets which may have been forgotten and which donates a
proportion of its public search fees to a group of three UK charities (Age Concern, NSPCC
and Scope). For further information, contact The Unclaimed Assets Register, Garden
Floor, Bain House, 16 Connaught Place, London W2 2ES (telephone: [phone]
1713), or visit its website at www.uar.co.uk.
Share price history
Upon flotation of the Company on 11 October 1988, the ordinary shares were valued at
170 pence each. On 16 September 1991, when the Company was finally demerged, for
UK taxpayers the base cost of Racal Electronics Plc shares was apportioned between the
Company and Racal Electronics Plc for Capital Gains Tax purposes in the ratio of
80.036% and 19.964% respectively. Opening share prices on 16 September 1991 were
332 pence for each Vodafone share and 223 pence for each Racal share.
On 21 July 1994, the Company effected a bonus issue of two new shares for every one
then held and, on 30 September 1999, it effected a bonus issue of four new shares for
every one held at that date. The flotation and demerger share prices, therefore, may be
restated as 11.333 pence and 22.133 pence, respectively.
The share price at 31 March 2006 was 120.50 pence (31 March 2005: 140.50 pence).
The share price on 26 May 2006 was 119.75 pence.
The following tables set out, for the periods indicated, (i) the reported high and low
middle market quotations of ordinary shares on the London Stock Exchange, (ii) the
reported high and low sales prices of ordinary shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange,
and (iii) the reported high and low sales prices of ADSs on the NYSE.
The Company’s ordinary shares were traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange from 3
April 2000 until 23 March 2004 and, therefore, information has not been provided for
periods outside these dates.
Five year data on an annual basis
London Stock Frankfurt
Exchange Stock Exchange NYSE
Pounds per Euros per Dollars
ordinary share ordinary share per ADS
Financial Year High Low High Low High Low
2001/2002 2.29 1.24 3.70 2.00 33.26 17.88
2002/2003 1.31 0.81 2.15 1.26 20.30 12.76
2003/2004 1.50 1.12 2.22 1.59 27.88 18.10
2004/2005 1.49 1.14 – – 28.54 20.83
2005/2006 1.55 1.09 – – 28.04 19.32
Two year data on a quarterly basis
London Stock
Exchange NYSE
Pounds per Dollars
ordinary share per ADS
Financial Year High Low High Low
2004/2005
First Quarter 1.44 1.21 25.90 21.87
Second Quarter 1.34 1.14 24.21 20.83
Third Quarter 1.49 1.32 28.54 24.06
Fourth Quarter 1.46 1.35 27.53 25.60
2005/2006
First Quarter 1.47 1.34 26.87 24.32
Second Quarter 1.55 1.36 28.04 23.90
Third Quarter 1.52 1.23 26.65 21.29
Fourth Quarter 1.33 1.09 23.39 19.32
2006/2007
First Quarter(1) 1.30 1.14 24.23 21.07
Note:
(1) Covering period up to 26 May 2006.
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