Vodafone 2016 Annual Report Download - page 48

Shareholder engagement
Our investor calendar
Set out below is a calendar of our investor events throughout the year.
May 2015
a Preliminary results published
a London, New York,
Boston, Toronto, Paris and
Edinburgh roadshows
June 2015
a Annual Report published
a Switzerland, Netherlands, Spain
and Frankfurt roadshows
a Investor conference in London
a Investor meetings in Spain, Turkey
and Italy
a Chairman’s London roadshow
July 2015
a Q1 Trading Statement published
a Annual general meeting
in London
a Investor meetings in India
September 2015
a Investor meeting about regulation
a Several investor conferences
in London and New York
October 2015
a 5G webinar
a Investor conference in Germany
November 2015
a Half-year results published
a London, New York, Boston,
Edinburgh, Paris, Toronto,
Switzerland and
Netherlands roadshows
a Investor conference in Barcelona
December 2015
a Investor conference in New York
January 2016
a Investor meetings in Spain
and Italy
February 2016
a Q3 Trading Statement published
March 2016
a Investor conference in Miami
a Investor conference in London
a Investor meeting with Enterprise
Communicating with
our shareholders
We are committed to communicating our strategy and activities clearly
to all our shareholders.
Governance in action:
Launch of our low-cost
share dealing programme
We launched a quick, simple
and economical share
dealing service for Vodafone
shareholders with no more
than 1,000 shares in February
2016. This service ran until
23 May 2016 and allowed
shareholders to sell all their
Vodafone shares or buy more
shares either free of dealing
costs or at a competitive rate.
Over 27% of such shareholders
chose to use this service.
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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 members 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 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 cash ow, capital expenditure,
debt and dividend cover;
a fixed broadband and TV strategy;
a performance outlook;
a Project Spring strategy;
a shareholder returns;
a regulation in Europe and
emerging markets;
a spectrum renewal costs;
a integration of KDG and Ono; and
a administration of shareholding.