(News Release)
MIAMI (October 9, 2012) -- Carnival Corporation & plc
(NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) has announced that it has declared a
dividend of $0.25 per share.
The boards approved a record date
for the quarterly dividend of November 23, 2012, and a payment date of
December 14, 2012.
Holders of Carnival Corporation
common stock and Carnival plc ADSs will receive the dividend payable in
U.S. dollars. The dividend for Carnival plc ordinary shares will be
payable in U.S. dollars or sterling. In the absence
of instructions or elections to the contrary, holders of Carnival plc
ordinary shares will automatically receive the dividend in sterling.
Dividends payable in sterling will
be converted from U.S. dollars at the exchange rate quoted by the Bank
of England in London at 12 noon on December 3, 2012. Holders of
Carnival plc ordinary shares wishing to receive
their dividend in U.S. dollars or participate in the Carnival plc
Dividend Reinvestment Plan must elect to do so by November 23, 2012.
Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest cruise company in the
world, with a portfolio of cruise brands in North America, Europe,
Australia and Asia, comprised of Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America
Line, Princess Cruises, Seabourn, AIDA Cruises, Costa
Cruises, Cunard, Ibero Cruises, P&O Cruises (Australia) and P&O
Cruises (UK).
Together, these brands operate 100 ships totaling 203,000 lower berths
with seven new ships scheduled to be delivered between March 2013 and
March 2016. Carnival Corporation & plc also operates Holland
America Princess Alaska Tours, the leading tour company
in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon. Traded on both the New York and
London Stock Exchanges, Carnival Corporation & plc is the only group
in the world to be included in both the S&P 500 and the FTSE 100
indices.
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