VOD - Vodacom Group Limited - Trading statement for interim results for
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VOD - Vodacom Group Limited - Trading statement for interim results for
30 September 2010
Vodacom Group Limited
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration number 1993/005461/06)
Share code VOD ISIN ZAE000132577
("Vodacom Group")
TRADING STATEMENT FOR INTERIM RESULTS FOR 30 SEPTEMBER 2010
In terms of paragraph 3.4(b) of the JSE Limited Listings Requirements,
companies are required to publish a trading statement as soon as they become
reasonably certain that the financial results for the next period to be
reported upon differ by at least 20% from those of the previous corresponding
period.
Interim results for the six months ended 30 September are expected to be
released on or about Monday 8 November 2010.
Shareholders of Vodacom Group are reminded that headline earnings per share
(`HEPS`) reported for the six months ended 30 September 2009 of 219 cents per
share were impacted by 52 cents per share in respect of losses on the
remeasurement of financial instruments and the reversal of a deferred
taxation asset. Earnings per share (`EPS`) reported for the six months ended
30 September 2009 of 4 cents per share were impacted by 215 cents per share
mainly in respect of impairment losses.
HEPS and EPS for the six months ended 30 September 2010 are both expected to
be between 285 cents per share and 307 cents per share.
The financial information on which this trading statement is based has
neither been reviewed nor reported on by Vodacom Group`s auditors.
Midrand
19 October 2010
Sponsor: UBS South Africa (Pty) Limited
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