SOUTHAMPTON,
England, Sept. 12, 2014
/PRNewswire/ -- Carnival Corporation & plc today announced
that David Dingle has been appointed
chairman of Carnival UK and David
Noyes, currently executive vice president operations, has
been promoted to the CEO role, with operating responsibility for
the UK-based brands P&O Cruises and Cunard Line. Dingle
and Noyes will take up their new roles on October 1, and will both report to Carnival
Corporation & plc president and CEO Arnold Donald.
"This moves allows us to strengthen further our overall
leadership in the critically important UK marketplace, while also
promoting from within to leverage the skills, experience and
capabilities of our executive team," said Donald.
Dingle, who became CEO in 2007, joined P&O Cruises in
London in 1978 where, after
holding a series of commercial positions, he became managing
director in 2000. At the time of the merger of P&O Princess
Cruises plc and the Carnival Corporation in April 2003, he became managing director of
Carnival UK.
Noyes joined Carnival UK in 2011, in his current
position. Prior to joining Carnival, he worked in the UK
travel industry for 25 years, mainly with British Airways, where he
was responsible for BA's worldwide customer services operation, and
latterly with Gray Dawes Travel as CEO.
Elaine Holt will join
Carnival UK on October 1 as
David Noyes' replacement as
executive vice president operations following a highly successful
career in the rail, road and airline industries. She has led a
series of transformational programmes as executive chairman of East
Coast Mainline and before that as managing director of First
Capital Connect. Most recently she has acted as a non
executive director of the Highways Agency.
Commenting on the appointments, David Dingle said:
"David Noyes is
exceptionally placed to lead P&O Cruises and Cunard into the
future and grow the business for the next generation. Elaine brings
with her a strong blend of operational and customer services skills
and will be a very valuable addition to our executive
team."
Dingle is a former President of The UK Chamber of Shipping
and the European Cruise Council (now CLIA Europe) and continues to
serve on the boards of both groups. In 2009, he joined the board of
the European Community Shipowners Association. He has previously
served as a director of the Association of British Travel Agents
and The UK Passenger Shipping Association.
P&O Cruises fleet of seven ships offers holidays
uniquely tailored to British tastes and combining genuine service,
sense of occasion and attention to detail, ensuring passengers have
the holiday of a lifetime every time. Whilst P&O's roots
go back to 1837, the naming of Oriana in 1995 by Her Majesty The
Queen heralded a new beginning for the P&O Cruises fleet, which
has most recently grown with the launch of Azura in 2010, named by
Darcey Bussell CBE and the addition
of Adonia in 2011, named by Dame Shirley
Bassey, DBE. Britannia, a new 141,000 ton cruise ship and
the largest built exclusively for Britain, will be added to the fleet in
March 2015.
Cunard's iconic liners Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen
Elizabeth epitomise the grandeur and luxury of the
ocean-going tradition, carrying forward a unique heritage
symbolised by their fabled Transatlantic crossings and world
cruises. Cunard's modern fleet began with the naming of Queen
Mary 2 by Her Majesty The Queen who returned to name Queen Elizabeth in 2010.
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, P&O Cruises (Australia) and P&O Cruises (UK).
Together, these brands operate 101 ships totalling 212,000 lower
berths with seven new ships scheduled to be delivered between fall
2014 and summer 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.
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