Carnival Corporation & plc Announces Exchange Rate for Quarterly Dividend
MIAMI, March 1, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- On January 24, 2007, Carnival
Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) announced a quarterly cash
dividend of $0.275 (U.S.) per share. The dividend is payable on March 9, 2007,
to shareholders of record on February 16, 2007.
Holders of Carnival Corporation common stock or Carnival plc ADSs will receive a dividend payable in U.S. dollars. The dividend for Carnival plc ordinary shares will be payable in sterling unless shareholders elected to receive the dividend in U.S. dollars by February 16, 2007.
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 March 1, 2007 (US$1 = 50.93725 pence). Accordingly, the dividend payable in sterling on March 9, 2007, will be 14.00774 pence per share.
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, Seabourn Cruise Line, Windstar Cruises, AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard Line, Ocean Village, P&O Cruises, Swan Hellenic, and P&O Cruises Australia.
Together, these brands operate 82 ships totaling 147,000 lower berths with 19 new ships scheduled to enter service between April 2007 and June 2011. 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.
Additional information can be obtained via Carnival Corporation & plc's Web sites at www.carnivalcorp.com and www.carnivalplc.com.
SOURCE Carnival Corporation & plc
US, Tim Gallagher of Carnival Corporation & plc, +1-305-599-2600, Ext. 16000; or
UK, Richard Jacques or Sophie Fitton of Brunswick Group, +44 (0) 20 7404 5959; or
Investors, US & UK, Beth Roberts of Carnival Corporation & plc,
+1-305-406-4832
