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Governance
Vodafone Group Plc Annual Report 2010 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 2009 or
17 May 2010 31 March 2010 date of appointment
Sir John Bond 357,584 357,584 237,345
John Buchanan 211,055 211,055 211,055
Vittorio Colao 1,575,567 1,575,567 1,046,149
Andy Halford 2,186,709 2,186,541 1,211,095
Michel Combes 392,389 392,223 232,827
Stephen Pusey 402,599 402,599 254,293
Alan Jebson 82,340 82,340 75,000
Samuel Jonah –––
Nick Land 35,000 35,000 35,000
Anne Lauvergeon 28,936 28,936 28,936
Simon Murray 246,250 246,250 157,500
Luc Vandevelde 72,829 72,829 72,500
Anthony Watson 115,000 115,000 115,000
Philip Yea 61,250 61,250 61,250
At 31 March 2010 and during the period from 1 April 2010 to 17 May 2010, 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 2010, members of the Group’s Executive Committee at 31 March 2010 had an aggregate beneficial interest
in 3,229,762 ordinary shares of the Company. At 17 May 2010 the directors had an aggregate beneficial interest in 5,767,508 ordinary shares of the Company and the
Executive Committee members had an aggregate beneficial interest in 3,230,262 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 17 May 2010 there had been no change to the directors’ interests in share options from 31 March 2010 (see page 65).
Other than those individuals included in the table above, at 17 May 2010, members of the Group’s Executive Committee at that date held options for 4,302,914 ordinary
shares at prices ranging from 91.6 pence to 167.8 pence per ordinary share, with a weighted average exercise price of 158.0 pence per ordinary share exercisable at dates
ranging from July 2008 to July 2017.
Sir John Bond, John Buchanan, Alan Jebson, Samuel Jonah, Nick Land, Anne Lauvergeon, Simon Murray, Luc Vandevelde, Anthony Watson and Philip Yea held no options at
17 May 2010.
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 subsidiaries was a party during the financial year.
Luc Vandevelde
On behalf of the Board