{"id":65002,"date":"2026-07-18T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=65002"},"modified":"2026-07-18T02:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:36:00","slug":"e-successfully-completes-sale-of-vodafone-stake-realizing-cash-proceeds-of-usd-5-95-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=65002","title":{"rendered":"e&amp; Successfully Completes Sale of Vodafone Stake, Realizing Cash Proceeds of USD 5.95 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmx.prnasia.com\/media\/MS1880907\/e-and-Logo.jpg?id=OA2769371&amp;p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">ABU DHABI, UAE<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">July 18, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Further to Emirates Telecommunications Group Company PJSC (&#8220;e&amp;&#8221;) announcement on 10th July 2026 related to signing a binding agreement with Vega, an acquisition vehicle wholly owned by the Niel family group, for the sale of e&amp;&#8217;s entire holding in Vodafone Group PLC (&#8220;Vodafone&#8221;); e&amp; today announced the successful completion of the transfer of its 3,944,743,685 ordinary shares in Vodafone to BNPP Financial Markets, Cr\u00e9dit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, and Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">   <a href=\"https:\/\/mmx.prnasia.com\/media\/MS1884986\/e_Hero-Image.jpg?id=OA2769370&amp;p=medium600\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"e&amp; Successfully Completes Sale of Vodafone Stake, Realizing Cash Proceeds of USD 5.95 Billion\" src=\"https:\/\/mmx.prnasia.com\/media\/MS1884986\/e_Hero-Image.jpg?id=OA2769370&amp;p=medium600\" alt=\"e&amp; Successfully Completes Sale of Vodafone Stake, Realizing Cash Proceeds of USD 5.95 Billion\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a>   <br \/>   <span>e&amp; Successfully Completes Sale of Vodafone Stake, Realizing Cash Proceeds of USD 5.95 Billion<\/span>  <\/div>\n<p>The successful completion of the transfer has generated gross cash proceeds to e&amp; of AED 21.5 billion (USD 5.84 billion), representing c. 110.5 GBX per share. The remaining consideration of 2.02 GBX dividend per share (equivalent to AED 0.4 billion \/ USD 0.11 billion), related to the FY&#8217;26 final dividend, is to be received on 30 July 2026. \u00a0This will bring the total consideration to AED 21.9 billion (equivalent of USD 5.95 billion), generating a net cash return of AED 4.8 billion (USD 1.3 billion). This transaction reflects the natural evolution of the e&amp;&#8217;s strategic priorities, enabling the Group to sharpen its strategic focus on its core businesses while unlocking the value created through its investments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntal\"><b>Contact: \u00a0<br \/><\/b>Nancy Sudheer<br \/>+971 50 705 5290\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntal\">\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmx.prnasia.com\/media\/MS1880907\/e-and-Logo.jpg?id=OA2769371&amp;p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">ABU DHABI, UAE<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">July 18, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Further to Emirates Telecommunications Group Company PJSC (&#8220;e&amp;&#8221;) announcement on 10th July 2026 related to signing a binding agreement with Vega, an acquisition vehicle wholly owned by the Niel family group, for the sale of e&amp;&#8217;s entire holding in Vodafone Group PLC (&#8220;Vodafone&#8221;); e&amp; today announced the successful completion of the transfer of its 3,944,743,685 ordinary shares in Vodafone to BNPP Financial Markets, Cr\u00e9dit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, and Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">   <a href=\"https:\/\/mmx.prnasia.com\/media\/MS1884986\/e_Hero-Image.jpg?id=OA2769370&amp;p=medium600\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"e&amp; Successfully Completes Sale of Vodafone Stake, Realizing Cash Proceeds of USD 5.95 Billion\" src=\"https:\/\/mmx.prnasia.com\/media\/MS1884986\/e_Hero-Image.jpg?id=OA2769370&amp;p=medium600\" alt=\"e&amp; Successfully Completes Sale of Vodafone Stake, Realizing Cash Proceeds of USD 5.95 Billion\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a>   <br \/>   <span>e&amp; Successfully Completes Sale of Vodafone Stake, Realizing Cash Proceeds of USD 5.95 Billion<\/span>  <\/div>\n<p>The successful completion of the transfer has generated gross cash proceeds to e&amp; of AED 21.5 billion (USD 5.84 billion), representing c. 110.5 GBX per share. The remaining consideration of 2.02 GBX dividend per share (equivalent to AED 0.4 billion \/ USD 0.11 billion), related to the FY&#8217;26 final dividend, is to be received on 30 July 2026. \u00a0This will bring the total consideration to AED 21.9 billion (equivalent of USD 5.95 billion), generating a net cash return of AED 4.8 billion (USD 1.3 billion). This transaction reflects the natural evolution of the e&amp;&#8217;s strategic priorities, enabling the Group to sharpen its strategic focus on its core businesses while unlocking the value created through its investments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntal\"><b>Contact: \u00a0<br \/><\/b>Nancy Sudheer<br \/>+971 50 705 5290\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cision-pr-newswire","category-cision-pr-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}