Beneficial 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:
18 May 2009 |
31 March 2009 |
1 April 2008 or 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.
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