Chief Executive Officer: Chris Gent
Chairman: Sam Ginn
Deal value: $97 per
share
Combined current market capitalization: $100 billion
Equity split: about 50-50
Terms:
AirTouch shareholders receive firve new ordinary Vodafone shares, or 0.5 of a Vodafone ADR, plus $9 cash
for each AirTouch share
Wireless customers: more than 23 million
Employees:
24,000
Headquarters: Newbury, England
Worldwide presence: Australia, Belgium, Egypt, Fiji,
Frnace, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South
Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States
Overlaps: Germany-The
combined company is expected to sell Vodafone’s 17-percent stake in E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH and keep AirTouch’s
interest in Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH
