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Vodafone Group PLC Capital/Financing Update 2016

Feb 25, 2016

5275_rns_2016-02-25_8f279980-cc32-4001-98ca-a5d3beea28df.pdf

Capital/Financing Update

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Vodafone Group Plc Issue of €1,250,000,000 1.250 per cent. Notes due 25 August 2021 under the €30,000,000,000 Euro Medium Term Note Programme

PART A - CONTRACTUAL TERMS

Terms used herein shall be deemed to be defined as such for the purposes of the Terms and Conditions set forth in the Prospectus dated 12 January 2016 and the supplementary prospectus dated 18 February 2016 which together constitute a base prospectus for the purposes of Directive 2003/71/EC (as amended, including by Directive 2010/73/EU), and includes any relevant implementing measure in a relevant Member State of the European Economic Area (the "Prospectus Directive"). This document constitutes the Final Terms of the Notes described herein for the purposes of Article 5.4 of the Prospectus Directive and must be read in conjunction with the Prospectus as so supplemented. Full information on the Issuer and the offer of the Notes is only available on the basis of the combination of these Final Terms and the Prospectus as so supplemented. The Prospectus and the supplementary prospectus have been published on the website of the London Stock Exchange at www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news-home.html.

1. Issuer: Vodafone Group Plc
2. (i) Series Number: 53
(ii) Tranche Number: 1
3. Specified Currency or Currencies: Euro $(\epsilon)$
4. Aggregate Nominal Amount:
Series: €1,250,000,000
Tranche: €1,250,000,000
5. Issue Price: 99.723 per cent. of the Aggregate Nominal Amount
6. (i) Specified Denomination(s): €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof up to and including
€199,000. No Notes in definitive form will be issued with a denomination above
€199,000.
(i) Calculation Amount: €1,000
7. Issue Interest
Date
and
Commencement Date:
25 February 2016
8. Maturity Date: 25 August 2021
9. Interest Basis: 1.250 per cent. Fixed Rate
(see paragraph 14 below)
10. Redemption Basis: Redemption at par
11. Change of Interest Basis or
Redemption Basis:
Not Applicable
12. Put/Call Options: Change of Control Put Option
(see paragraph 20 below)

3 February 2015, 3 November 2015 and 22 February 2016 Date of Board approval for issuance 13. of Notes:

PROVISIONS RELATING TO INTEREST (IF ANY) PAYABLE

14. Fixed Rate Note Provisions Applicable
Rate(s) of Interest:
(i)
1.250 per cent. per annum payable in arrear on each Interest Payment Date
(ii) Interest Payment Date(s): 25 August in each year, commencing on 25 August 2016, up to and including the
Maturity Date.
Interest Payment Date
(iii)
Adjustment:
Additional Business
(iv)
Centre(s):
Fixed Coupon Amount(s):
(v)
Not Applicable
Not Applicable
€12.500 per Calculation Amount
(vi) Broken Amount(s): €6.220 per Calculation Amount, payable on the Interest Payment Date falling on 25
August 2016
(vii) Fixed Day Count Fraction: Actual/Actual (ICMA)
(viii) Determination Date: 25 August in each year
15. Floating Rate Note Provisions Not Applicable
16. Zero Coupon Note Provisions Not Applicable
17. Inflation Linked Interest Note
Provisions
Not Applicable
PROVISIONS RELATING TO REDEMPTION
18. Issuer Call Not Applicable
19. Investor Put Not Applicable
20. Change of Control Put Option Applicable
(i) Optional Redemption Amount: €1,010 per Calculation Amount
(ii) Put Period: As set out in the Terms and Conditions
(iii) Put Date: As set out in the Terms and Conditions
21. Final Redemption Amount €1,000 per Calculation Amount
22. Early Redemption Amount €1,000 per Calculation Amount
Early Redemption Amount payable
on redemption for taxation reasons or
on event of default or other early
redemption:

GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO THE NOTES

23. Form of Notes:
(a) Form: Bearer Notes
Bearer Notes:
Temporary Global Note exchangeable for a Permanent Global Note which is
exchangeable for Definitive Notes only upon an Exchange Event
(b) New Global Note: Yes
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24. Additional Financial Centre(s) or
other special provisions relating to
Payment Days:
London
25. Talons for future Coupons to be
attached to Definitive Notes (and
dates on which such Talons mature):
v
No
PROVISIONS RELATING TO RMB NOTES
26. Renminbi Currency Event: Not Applicable
27. Calculation Agent: Not Applicable
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Signed on behalf of the Issuer:

By: NF General

PART B - OTHER INFORMATION

Listing and Admission to Trading: $1.$

(i) Listing and admission to
trading:
Application has been made by the Issuer (or on its behalf) for the Notes to be admitted
to trading on the London Stock Exchange's regulated market with effect from 25
February 2016.
(ii) Estimate of total expenses
related to admission to
trading:
£3,650
Ratings: The Notes to be issued are expected to be rated:
Standard & Poor's Credit Market Services Europe Limited: BBB+ (stable)
Moody's Investors Service España S.A.: Baa1 (stable)
Fitch Ratings Ltd.: BBB+ (stable)

Interests of Natural and Legal Persons Involved in the Issue: $3.$

Save for any fees payable to Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, ING Bank N.V. and Merrill Lynch International (the "Joint Lead Managers"), so far as the Issuer is aware, no person involved in the issue of the Notes has an interest material to the offer. The Joint Lead Managers and their affiliates have engaged, and may in the future engage, in investment banking and/or commercial banking transactions with, and may perform other services for, the Issuer and its affiliates in the ordinary course of business.

Yield: $\overline{4}$ .

$2.$

1.303 per cent. per annum Indication of yield:

TEFRA Rules 5.

Whether TEFRA D applicable or TEFRA D TEFRA rules not applicable:

6. Operational Information:

(i) ISIN: XS1372838240
(ii) Common Code: 137283824
(iii) CUSIP: Not Applicable
(iv) CINS: Not Applicable
(v) Any clearing system(s)
other than Euroclear.
Clearstream, Luxembourg
and DTC (together with
the address of each such
clearing system) and the
relevant identification
number(s):
Not Applicable
(vi) Intended to be held in a
manner which would allow
Eurosystem eligibility:
Yes