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Carnival Corporation & plc is a global cruise com-
pany and one of the largest vacation com panies
in the world. Our portfolio of leading cruise
brands includes Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess
Cruises, Holland America Line, and The Yachts of
Seabourn in North America; P&O Cruises, Cunard
Line and Ocean Village in the United Kingdom;
AIDA Cruises in Germany; Costa Cruises in
Europe, South America and Asia; Ibero Cruises
in Spain; and P&O Cruises in Australia. These
brands, which comprise the most-recognized
cruise brands in North and South America, the
United Kingdom, Germany, Southern Europe and
Australia, offer a wide range of holiday and vaca-
tion products to a customer base that is broadly
varied in terms of cultures, languages and leisure-
time preferences. We also own two leading tour
com panies in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon
that complement our cruise operations, Holland
America Tours and Princess Tours. Combined,
our vacation companies attract almost eight
million guests annually.
Carnival’s product offerings provide our guests
with exceptional vacation experiences at an out-
standing value, and our success in this regard
has made us the most profitable company in the
leisure industry. Our company is dually listed on
both the New York Stock Exchange and the London
Stock Exchange under the symbol CCL. Carnival
is the only company in the world to be included in
both the S&P 500 Index in the United States and
the FTSE 100 Index in the United Kingdom.
Headquartered in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. and
London, England, Carnival has over 80,000
employees worldwide. We operate a fleet of
85 ships, and we have another 22 vessels sched-
uled for delivery by 2012. With approximately
160,000 guests and 65,000 crew members, there
are over 225,000 people at sea with Carnival at
any given time.