CARNIVAL CORPORATION & PLC ANNOUNCES KIRK LANTERMAN’S DEPARTURE FROM THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
MIAMI - (February 9, 2007) - Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE: CCL; LSE) (NYSE: CUK) announced today that, in accordance with its corporate governance guidelines, A. Kirk Lanterman, a member of its boards of directors, has not been nominated for re-election to the boards of directors, as he has reached the age of 75. Therefore, he will step down from the board of directors following the next annual meetings of shareholders scheduled to be held on April 16, 2007.
Lanterman has been a member of Carnival Corporation's board of directors since April 1992 and a member of the directors of Carnival plc since April 2003. He has served as a non-executive chairman of the board of Holland America Line Inc., a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc, since December 2004. Prior to that, he served as chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Holland America Line Inc from August 1999 until November 2003. He continued as Holland America's chairman of the board and chief executive office until until November 2004.
“Kirk has been an essential part of the growth and success of our company over the past 17 years. Under his strong leadership as president and chief executive officer of Holland America Line, he oversaw the growth and positioning of the line as the premium cruise leader,” said Micky Arison, Carnival Corporation & plc chairman and CEO.
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 81 ships totaling 144,000 lower berths with 20 new ships scheduled to enter service between March 2007 and spring 2011. Carnival Corporation & plc also operates the leading tour companies in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, Holland America Tours and Princess Tours. 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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