# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000839923
**File Stem:** 0001654954-26-000937
**Filing Date:** 2026-2
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001654954-26-000937.hdr.sgml**: 20260205

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001654954-26-000937

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 6-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 3

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20260205

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260205

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260205

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** VODAFONE GROUP PUBLIC LTD CO
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000839923
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** RADIO TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS [4812]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 06 Technology
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0331

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 6-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-10086
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26601485

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **ADDRESS IS A NON US LOCATION:** YES
- **STREET 1:** VODAFONE HOUSE
- **STREET 2:** THE CONNECTION
- **CITY:** NEWBURY, BERKSHIRE
- **PROVINCE COUNTRY:** X0
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 011-44-1635-33251

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **ADDRESS IS A NON US LOCATION:** YES
- **STREET 1:** VODAFONE HOUSE
- **STREET 2:** THE CONNECTION
- **CITY:** NEWBURY, BERKSHIRE
- **PROVINCE COUNTRY:** X0

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** VODAFONE GROUP PUBLIC LIMITED CO
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20020807

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** VODAFONE AIRTOUCH PUBLIC LIMITED CO
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19990629

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** VODAFONE GROUP PUBLIC LIMITED CO
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19960514

**UNITED STATES**

 **SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

 **Washington, D.C. 20549**

 **Form 6-K**

 **REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER**

 **PURSUANT TO RULES 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER**

 **THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

Dated February 05, 2026

Commission File Number: 001-10086

 **VODAFONE GROUP**

 **PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY**

(Translation of registrant's name into English)

VODAFONE HOUSE, THE CONNECTION, NEWBURY, BERKSHIRE, RG14 2FN, ENGLAND

(Address of principal executive offices)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

Form 20-F <u>✓</u> Form 40-F _

This Report on Form 6-K contains a Stock Exchange Announcement dated 05 February 2026 entitled '€500 MILLION SHARE BUYBACK PROGRAMME TO COMMENCE'.

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05 FEBRUARY 2026

 **€500 MILLION SHARE BUYBACK PROGRAMME TO COMMENCE**<br>

Vodafone Group Plc ("**Vodafone**") today announces that it will commence a share repurchase programme of ordinary shares in the share capital of Vodafone of US$0.20![](a7808r001.jpg) each (the "**Ordinary Shares**") up to a maximum consideration of €500 million (the "**Programme**").

Vodafone announces that it has given a non-discretionary instruction to Goldman Sachs International ("GSI") in relation to the purchase by GSI, acting as riskless principal during the period commencing on 05 February 2026 and ending no later than 11 May 2026, of Ordinary Shares for a target expense amount of no greater than €500 million and the simultaneous on-sale of such Ordinary Shares by GSI to Vodafone.

Any purchase of Ordinary Shares done in relation to this announcement will be carried out on the London Stock Exchange and Multilateral Trading Facilities, as defined by the Directive 2014/65/EU on markets in financial instruments (including the delegated and implementing acts adopted under it) as implemented, retained, amended, extended, re-enacted or otherwise given effect in the United Kingdom from 1 January 2021 and as amended or supplemented in the United Kingdom thereafter, and executed in accordance with the UK Listing Rules and Vodafone's general authority to make market purchases of Ordinary Shares granted by shareholders at the 2025 Annual General Meeting ("**2025 AGM**") pursuant to which the Company is authorised to repurchase up to 3,715,558,736 Ordinary Shares. The sole purpose of the Programme is to reduce share capital. Ordinary Shares acquired by GSI will be subsequently repurchased by Vodafone, held as treasury shares and then either cancelled or allocated to employee share awards as they fall due.

The Ordinary Shares will be purchased in accordance with the price and volume conditions set out in the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 of 8 March 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for the conditions applicable to buyback programmes and stabilisation measures as implemented, retained, amended, extended, re-enacted or otherwise given effect in the United Kingdom from 1 January 2021 and as amended or supplemented in the United Kingdom thereafter.

Details of the authority granted at the 2025 AGM can be found within the 2025 Notice of Meeting on our website.

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| **Investor Relations:**<br>| vodafone.com<br>| ir@vodafone.co.uk<br>| **Media Relations:**<br>| Vodafone.com/media/contact<br>| GroupMedia@vodafone.com |
| Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN, England. Registered in England No. 1833679 | Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN, England. Registered in England No. 1833679 | Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN, England. Registered in England No. 1833679 | Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN, England. Registered in England No. 1833679 | Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN, England. Registered in England No. 1833679 | Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN, England. Registered in England No. 1833679 |

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 **About Vodafone**

Vodafone is a leading European and African telecoms company.

We serve over 360 million mobile and broadband customers, operating networks in 15 countries with investments in a further five and partners in over 40 more. We have capacity on more than 70 subsea cable systems - the backbone of the internet - and we are developing a new direct-to-mobile satellite communications service to connect areas without coverage. Vodafone runs one of the world's largest IoT platforms, with over 230 million IoT connections globally, and we provide financial services to around 94 million customers across seven African countries - managing more transactions than any other provider.

From the seabed to the stars, Vodafone's purpose is to keep everyone connected.

For more information, please visit <u>www.vodafone.com</u> follow us on X at @VodafoneGroup or connect with us on LinkedIn at <u>www.linkedin.com/company/vodafone.</u>

 **SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorised.

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|  | VODAFONE GROUP |
|  | PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY |
|  | (Registrant) |
| Date: February 05, 2026 | By: /s/ M D B |
|  | Name: Maaike de Bie |
|  | Title: Group General Counsel and Company Secretary |

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