SCHEDULE 13G
Amendment No.
Vodafone Group Public Limited Company
American Depository Receipt
Cusip # 92857T107
Filing Fee: Yes
Cusip # 92857T107
Item 1: Reporting Person - FMR Corp. - (Tax ID: 04-2507163)
Item 4: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Item 5: 321,640
Item 6: 28,000
Item 7: 15,495,770
Item 8: 28,000
Item 9: 15,526,770
Item 11: 14.68%
Item 12: HC
Cusip # 92857T107
Item 1: Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: 55,500
Item 6: 28,000
Item 7: 15,495,770
Item 8: 28,000
Item 9: 15,526,770
Item 11: 14.68%
Item 12: IN
Cusip # 92857T107
Item 1: Reporting Person - Abigail P. Johnson
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: 0
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 15,495,770
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 15,526,770
Item 11: 14.68%
Item 12: IN
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Item 1(a). Name of Issuer:
Vodafone Group Public Limited Company
Item 1(b). Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:
The Courtyard, 2-4 London Road, Newbury
Berkshire RG14 1JX, England
Item 2(a). Name of Person Filing:
FMR Corp.
Item 2(b). Address or Principal Business Office or, if None, Residence:
82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
Item 2(c). Citizenship:
Not applicable
Item 2(d). Title of Class of Securities:
American Depository Receipt
Item 2(e). CUSIP Number:
92857T107
Item 3. This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b) and the
person filing, FMR Corp., is a parent holding company in accordance
with Section 240.13d-1(b)(ii)(G). (Note: See Item 7).
Item 4. Ownership
(a) Amount Beneficially Owned:
15,526,770
(b) Percent of Class:
14.68%
(c) Number of shares as to which such person has:
(i) sole power to vote or to direct the vote:
321,640
(ii) shared power to vote or to direct the vote:
28,000
(iii) sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of:
15,495,770
(iv) shared power to dispose or to direct the disposition of:
28,000
Item 5. Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another Person.
Various persons have the right to receive or the power to
direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the
sale of, the American Depository Receipt of Vodafone Group
Public Limited Company. The interest of one person, Fidelity
Advisor Growth Opportunities Portfolio, an investment company
registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, in the
American Depository Receipts of Vodafone Group Public Limited
Company, amounted to 7,272,900 American Depository Receipts or
6.88% of the total outstanding American Depository Receipts at
April 30, 1996.
Item 7. Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which Acquired
the Security Being Reported on By the Parent Holding Company.
See attached Exhibit(s) A and B.
Item 8. Identification and Classification of Members of the Group.
Not applicable, see attached Exhibit A.
Item 9. Notice of Dissolution of Group.
Not applicable.
Item 10. Certification.
By signing below I certify that, to the best of my knowledge
and belief, the securities referred to above were acquired in
the ordinary course of business and were not acquired for the
purpose of and do not have the effect of changing or
influencing the control of the issuer of such securities and
were not acquired in connection with or as a participant in any
transaction having such purpose or effect.
Signature
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this
Schedule 13G in connection with FMR Corp.'s beneficial
ownership of the American Depository Receipt of Vodafone Group
Public Limited Company at April 30, 1996 is true, complete and
correct.
May 9, 1996
Date
/s/Arthur S. Loring
Signature
Arthur S. Loring, Vice
President
Name/Title
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Pursuant to the instructions in Item 7 of Schedule 13G, Fidelity
Management & Research Company ("Fidelity"), 82 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and an investment
adviser registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940,
is the beneficial owner of 15,048,330 American Depository Receipts or 14.23%
of the American Depository Receipts outstanding of Vodafone Group Public
Limited Company ("the Company") as a result of acting as investment adviser to
various investment companies registered under Section 8 of the Investment
Company Act of 1940.
The ownership of one investment company, Fidelity Advisor Growth
Opportunities Portfolio, amounted to 7,272,900 American Depository Receipts or
6.88% of the American Depository Receipts outstanding. Fidelity Advisor
Growth Opportunities Portfolio has its principal business office at 82
Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.
Edward C. Johnson 3d, FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity, and the
funds each has sole power to dispose of the 15,048,330 American Depository
Receipts owned by the Funds.
Neither FMR Corp. nor Edward C. Johnson 3d, Chairman of FMR Corp., has
the sole power to vote or direct the voting of the American Depository
Receipts owned directly by the Fidelity Funds, which power resides with the
Funds' Boards of Trustees. Fidelity carries out the voting of the American
Depository Receipts under written guidelines established by the Funds' Boards
of Trustees.
Fidelity Management Trust Company, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and a bank as
defined in Section 3(a)(6) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is the
beneficial owner of 391,940 American Depository Receipts or 0.37% of the
American Depository Receipts outstanding of the Company as a result of its
serving as investment manager of the institutional account(s).
Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity
Management Trust Company, has sole dispositive power over 391,940 American
Depository Receipts and sole power to vote or to direct the voting of 266,140
American Depository Receipts, and no power to vote or to direct the voting of
125,800 American Depository Receipts owned by the institutional account(s) as
reported above.
Members of the Edward C. Johnson 3d family and trusts for their benefit
are the predominant owners of Class B shares of common stock of FMR Corp.,
representing approximately 49% of the voting power of FMR Corp. Mr. Johnson
3d owns 12.0% and Abigail Johnson owns 24.5% of the aggregate outstanding
voting stock of FMR Corp. Mr. Johnson 3d is Chairman of FMR Corp. and Abigail
P. Johnson is a Director of FMR Corp. The Johnson family group and all other
Class B shareholders have entered into a shareholders' voting agreement under
which all Class B shares will be voted in accordance with the majority vote of
Class B shares. Accordingly, through their ownership of voting common stock
and the execution of the shareholders' voting agreement, members of the
Johnson family may be deemed, under the Investment Company Act of 1940, to
form a controlling group with respect to FMR Corp. The number of shares of
American Depository Receipts of the Company reported herewith includes 86,500
American Depository Receipts or 0.08% of American Depository Receipts owned
directly by Edward C. Johnson 3d or in trusts for the benefit of Edward C.
Johnson 3d or an Edward C. Johnson 3d family member for which Edward C.
Johnson 3d serves as trustee
Edward C. Johnson 3d has sole voting and dispositive power over 55,500
American Depository Receipts, shared voting and dispositive power over 28,000
American Depository Receipt, and no voting or dispositive power over 3,000
American Depository Receipts.
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
RULE 13d-1(f)(1) AGREEMENT
The undersigned persons, on May 9, 1996, agree and consent to the joint
filing on their behalf of this Schedule 13G in connection with their
beneficial ownership of the American Depository Receipts of Vodafone Group
Public Limited Company at April 30, 1996.
FMR Corp.
By /s/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Vice President - Legal
Edward C. Johnson 3d
By /s/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Under Power of Attorney dated
5/17/89
On File with Schedule 13G for
Airborne Freight Corp. 9/10/91
Abigail P. Johnson
By /s/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Under Power of Attorney dated
1/5/96
On File with Schedule 13G for
Acclaim Entertainment Inc.
1/10/96
Fidelity Management & Research Company
By /s/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Sr. V.P. and General Counsel
Fidelity Advisor Growth Opportunities
Portfolio
By /s/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Secretary
