MIAMI, July 16, 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 August 22,
2014, and a payment date of September
12, 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 September 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 August 22,
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 101 ships totaling 212,000 lower
berths with seven new ships scheduled to be delivered between 2014
and 2016. Carnival Corporation & plc also operates Holland
America Princess Alaska Tours, the leading tour companies 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