Carnival
Corporation & plc Declares Quarterly Dividend
MIAMI, April 18, 2019 -- Carnival Corporation &
plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) today announced that it has
declared a quarterly dividend of $0.50 per share.
The company's boards of directors approved a record date for the
quarterly dividend of May 24, 2019, and a payment date
of June 14, 2019.
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 Bloomberg (BFIX) at 12
noon London time on June 3, 2019. 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 24, 2019.
About Carnival Corporation
Carnival Corporation & plc is the world's largest leisure
travel company and among the most profitable and financially strong
in the cruise and vacation industries, with a portfolio of nine of
the world's leading cruise lines. With operations in North
America, Australia, Europe and Asia, its portfolio features Carnival Cruise
Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn,
P&O Cruises (Australia), Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises,
P&O Cruises (UK) and Cunard.
Together, the corporation's cruise lines operate 104 ships with
243,000 lower berths visiting over 700 ports around the world, with
19 new ships scheduled to be delivered through 2025. 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.
With a long history of innovation and providing guests with
extraordinary vacation experiences, Carnival Corporation has
received thousands of industry awards – including recognition by
the Consumer Technology Association™ as a CES® 2019 Innovation
Awards Honoree for OceanMedallion™. A revolutionary wearable device
that contains a proprietary blend of communication technologies,
OceanMedallion enables the world's first interactive guest
experience platform transforming vacation travel on a large scale
into a highly personalized level of customized service. The
prestigious CES Innovation Awards honor outstanding design and
engineering in consumer technology
products.
Additional information can be found on www.carnival.com,
www.princess.com, www.hollandamerica.com, www.seabourn.com,
www.pocruises.com.au, www.costacruise.com, www.aida.de,
www.pocruises.com and www.cunard.com.
CONTACT: MEDIA CONTACT, Roger
Frizzell, +1 (305) 406 7862; INVESTOR RELATIONS CONTACT,
Beth Roberts, +1 (305) 406 4832