MIAMI, April 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival
Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) has announced that
it has declared a dividend of $0.25
per share.
The company's board of directors approved a record date for the
quarterly dividend of May 23, 2014,
and a payment date of June 13,
2014.
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 June 2, 2014. 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 May 23, 2014.
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 208,000 lower
berths with eight new ships scheduled to be delivered
between 2014 and 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.
SOURCE Carnival Corporation & plc