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Shareholder engagement
Communicating with
our shareholders
We are committed to communicating our strategy and activities clearly
to all our shareholders.
How we communicate
with our shareholders
We maintained an active dialogue with our
shareholders throughout the year through
a planned programme of investor relations
activities. We also respond to daily queries
from shareholders and analysts through
our Investor Relations team and have
a section of our website which is dedicated
to shareholders and analysts: vodafone.
com/investor. Our registrars, Computershare,
and BNY Mellon (as custodians
of our American Depositary Receipts (‘ADR’)
programme) also have a team of people
to answer shareholder and ADR holder
queries in relation to technical aspects of their
holdings such as dividend payments and
shareholding balances.
All of our nancial results presentations
are available on our website at vodafone.com/
investor.
Our annual general meeting
and our roadshows
Our annual general meeting is attended by our
Board and Executive Committee and is open
to all our shareholders to attend. A summary
presentation of nancial results is given before
the Chairman deals with the formal business
of the meeting. All shareholders present can
question the Board during the meeting.
We hold meetings with major institutional
investors, individual shareholder groups
andnancial analysts to discuss the business
performance and strategy. These are attended
by the appropriate mix of Board Directors and
senior management including our Chairman,
ChiefExecutive, Executive Committee
members, senior leaders and the Investor
Relations team. Institutional investors also
meet with the Chairman to discuss matters
of governance.
What our shareholders
have asked us this year
Common topics raised by our institutional
and individual shareholders include:
a 4G and data;
a administration of shareholding;
a cash ow, capital expenditure, debt and
dividend cover;
a xed broadband and TV strategy;
a performance outlook;
a Project Spring strategy;
a regulation in Europe and
emerging markets;
a shareholder returns;
a spectrum renewal costs; and
a the Verizon Wireless transaction.
Our investor calendar
Set out below is a calendar of our investor events attended by senior management throughout the year.
May 2014
a Preliminary Results published
a London, New York, Boston, Toronto and
Edinburgh roadshows
a Investor meeting in Italy
June 2014
a Annual Report published
a Switzerland, Netherlands and
Frankfurt roadshow
a Investor conference in London
a Investor meetings in Spain, Germany
and Turkey
a Chairman’s London roadshow
July 2014
a Q1 Interim Management
Statement published
a Annual general meeting in London
September 2014
a Several investor conferences in London
a Investor meetings in Spain, Italy
and Germany
a Investor event in Tanzania
October 2014
a M2M webinar
a Investor meeting in Ireland
November 2014
a Half-year results published
a London, New York, Boston, Edinburgh,
Paris, Frankfurt, Switzerland and
Netherlands roadshows
a Investor conference in Barcelona
December 2014
a Investor conference in London
a New York, Montreal and
Toronto roadshows
a Chairman’s meeting with investors
January 2015
a Investor conference in Madrid
a Italy roadshow
February 2015
a Q3 Interim Management
Statement published
a US west coast roadshow
March 2015
a US east coast, Asia, Copenhagen,
Stockholm and Helsinki roadshows
a Investor conference in London
a Investor eld trip to India
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