Carnival Corporation & plc Declares Dividend, Appoints Board Committee Members and Announces Results of Annual General Meetings
MIAMI, April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Following its annual shareholders meetings and boards of directors meetings held this week in Coral Gables, Fla., Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) has announced the declaration of a quarterly dividend, three board committee appointments, and the results of the resolutions voted on at its annual general meetings.
Quarterly Dividend Declared
On April 23, 2008, the boards declared a dividend of $0.40 per share. The boards approved a record date for the quarterly dividend of May 23, 2008, and a payment date of June 13, 2008.
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, 2008. 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, 2008.
New Board Committee Appointments
Laura Weil was appointed as a member of the Compensation Committees, Richard Capen was appointed as a member of the Health, Environmental, Safety & Security Committees and resigned as a member of the Audit Committees, and Uzi Zucker was appointed as a member of the Audit Committees.
These appointments fill the vacancies arising as a result of the previously announced retirement of Baroness Sarah Hogg as a member of the boards, who decided not to seek re-election at the latest annual meetings of shareholders. The board committee appointments and retirement of Baroness Sarah Hogg became effective April 22, 2008.
Annual General Meeting Results
All of the resolutions recommended by the board of directors were passed at the annual general meetings.
The results of the polls conducted at the annual general meetings will be available shortly on the company's web sites at www.carnivalcorp.com or www.carnivalplc.com.
All resolutions passed by the company other than resolutions concerning ordinary business have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority, and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:
Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS
Tel. No. (0) 20 7676 1000
Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest cruise vacation group in the world, with a portfolio of cruise brands in North America, Europe and Australia, comprised of Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, The Yachts of Seabourn, AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard Line, Ibero Cruises, Ocean Village, P&O Cruises and P&O Cruises Australia.
Together, these brands operate 86 ships totaling more than 162,000 lower berths with 20 new ships scheduled to enter service between July 2008 and June 2012. Carnival Corporation & plc also operates Holland America Tours and Princess 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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