MIAMI, Jan. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 February 22, 2019, and a payment date
of March 15, 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 March 1, 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 February 22, 2019.
About Carnival Corporation & plc
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 105 ships with
242,000 lower berths visiting over 700 ports around the world, with
20 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.
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