Carnival Corporation & plc Declares Dividend
Carnival Corporation & plc Declares Dividend
DLC's Second Dividend for Both U.S. and UK Shareholders
MIAMI, June 26 -- Carnival Corporation & plc
(NYSE CCL; LSE)(NYSE: CUK) announced today that its Boards of Directors
declared a quarterly cash dividend of 10.5 U.S. cents per share for the second
quarter of 2003. The dividend is payable on September 12, 2003, to
shareholders of record on August 22, 2003.
Holders of Carnival Corporation common stock or 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 11 a.m. on September 1, 2003. Holders of
Carnival plc ordinary shares wishing to receive their dividend in U.S. dollars
must elect to do so by August 28, 2003.
Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest cruise vacation group in the
world, with a portfolio of 13 cruise brands in North America, Europe and
Australia, comprised of Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland
America Line, Costa Cruises, P&O Cruises, Cunard Line, Windstar Cruises,
Seabourn Cruise Line, Ocean Village, Swan Hellenic, AIDA, A'ROSA, and P&O
Cruises Australia.
Together, these brands operate 68 ships totaling more than 105,800 lower
berths with 15 new ships scheduled for delivery between now and mid-2006.
Carnival Corporation & plc also operates three riverboats on Europe's Danube
River and 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.
Additional information can be obtained via Carnival Corporation & plc's
Web sites at www.carnivalcorp.com and www.carnivalplc.com.
SOURCE Carnival Corporation & plc
-0- 06/26/2003
/CONTACT: Media, in the US, Tim Gallagher, Carnival Corporation & plc,
+1-305-599-2600, ext. 16000; or in the UK, Sophie Fitton or Sarah Tovey, both
of Brunswick Group, 44-0-20-7404-5959, for Carnival; or Investors, in the US
and UK, Beth Roberts, Carnival Corporation & plc, +1-305-406-4832, or
44-0-79-5643-6104, or in the UK, Bronwen Griffiths,
44-0-23-8052-5231, for Carnival/
/Web site: http://www.carnivalcorp.com/
(CCL CUK)