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Governance
Vodafone Group Plc Annual Report 2009 67
Benecial interests
The beneficial interests of directors’ and their connected persons in the ordinary shares of the Company, which includes interests in the Vodafone share incentive plan, but
which excludes interests in the Vodafone Group share option schemes, and the Vodafone Group short term or long term incentives, are shown below:
1 April 2008 or
18 May 2009 31 March 2009 date of appointment
Sir John Bond 237,345 237,345 224,926
John Buchanan 211,055 211,055 200,009
Vittorio Colao 1,046,149 1,046,149 180,063
Andy Halford 1,211,499 1,211,095 781,826
Alan Jebson 75,000 75,000 75,000
Nick Land 35,000 35,000 25,000
Anne Lauvergeon 28,936 28,936 27,125
Simon Murray 157,500 157,500 157,500
Luc Vandevelde 72,500 72,500 17,500
Anthony Watson 115,000 115,000 100,000
Philip Yea 61,250 61,250 61,250
At 31 March 2009, and during the period from 1 April 2009 to 18 May 2009, no director had any interest in the shares of any subsidiary company. Other than those individuals
included in the table above who were Board members at 31 March 2009, members of the Group’s Executive Committee, at 31 March 2009, had an aggregate beneficial
interest in 3,636,018 ordinary shares of the Company. At 18 May 2009, the directors had an aggregate beneficial interest in 3,251,243 ordinary shares of the Company and
the Executive Committee members had an aggregate beneficial interest in 3,637,634 ordinary shares of the Company. However, none of the directors or the Executive
Committee members had an individual beneficial interest amounting to greater than 1% of the Company’s ordinary shares.
Interests in share options of the Company
At 18 May 2009, there had been no change to the directors’ interests in share options from 31 March 2009 (see page 65).
Other than those individuals included in the table above, at 18 May 2009, members of the Group’s Executive Committee at that date held options for 19,282,900 ordinary
shares at prices ranging from 91.6 pence to 291.5 pence per ordinary share, with a weighted average exercise price of 148.1 pence per ordinary share exercisable at dates
ranging from July 2002 to July 2017.
Sir John Bond, John Buchanan, Alan Jebson, Nick Land, Anne Lauvergeon, Simon Murray, Luc Vandevelde, Anthony Watson and Philip Yea held no options at 18 May 2009.
Directors’ interests in contracts
None of the current directors had a material interest in any contract of significance to which the Company or any of its subsidiary undertakings was a party during the
financial year.
Luc Vandevelde
On behalf of the Board