Carnival Corporation & plc
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Carnival Corporation & plc is an Anglo-American corporation which is the world's largest cruise operator, comprising 12 cruise brands, including Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Windstar Cruises and Seabourn Cruise Line in North America; P & O Cruises, Cunard Line, Ocean Village and Swan Hellenic in the United Kingdom; AIDA and A'ROSA in Germany; Costa Cruises in Southern Europe;
and P & O Cruises in Australia.
Carnival Corporation & plc, which caters for more than 2 million passengers a year, has headquarters in Miami, Florida, USA and London, England. It is a dual listed company which means that there are two separate holding companies which have different sets of shareholders but share ownership of all the operating companies in the group. Neither of them is a subsidiary of the other.
Carnival Corporation is the larger of the two holding companies. It is incorporated in Panama. Up until 2003 it was a separate company and the market leader in the United States cruise market. CEO Micky Arison and his family own 47% of Carnival Corporation. From 1988 to the late 1990s, the corporation ventured into the world of charter airlines, with Carnival Airlines. Carnival Corporation, which is incorporated in Panama has its primary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
Carnival plc was formerly known as P&O Princess Cruises plc, in which guise it was the leading British based cruise company. Up until 2000 it was a subsidiary of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, but it was demerged on 23 October of that year. It is incorporated in England and Wales. It changed its name after coming together with Carnival Corporation in April 2003. Carnival plc has its primary listing on the London Stock Exchange.
Carnival Corporation's stock is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (Template:NYSE).
Carnival plc's stock is traded on the London Stock Exchange (Template:Lse) and on the New York Stock Exchange (Template:NYSE).
In the year ended 31 December 2004 Carnival had revenue of $9.727 billion and net income of $1.854 billion.
Some notable Carnival Corporation liners include:
- RMS Queen Mary 2 (transatlantic ocean liner)
- RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 -- 1969 (transatlantic, now a cruise liner)
- Carnival Destiny (cruise liner)