Financial Services Authority
TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying Carnival Plc
issuer of existing shares to which voting
rights are attached:
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights Yes
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which
may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting
rights are attached.
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect
to qualifying financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please
specify):
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the BlackRock Inc.
notification obligation:
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if
different from 3.):
5 January 2010
5. Date of the transaction and date on
which the threshold is crossed or
reached:
6. Date on which issuer notified: 6 January 2010
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or Holding has gone above 12%
reached:
8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of Situation Resulting situation
shares if previous to after the triggering
possible the triggering transaction
using the transaction
ISIN
CODE
Number Number Number of % of voting
of of Voting voting rights rights
Shares Rights Number of
shares
Direct Indirect Direct Indirect
GB0031215220 N/A N/A N/A 19,060,602 N/A 11.41%
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Number of
voting rights that
Type of financial Expiration Exercise/Conversion may be acquired % of voting
instrument date Period if the instrument rights
is exercised/
converted.
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial Exercise Expiration Exercise/ Number of % of voting
instrument price date Conversion voting rights rights
period instrument
refers to
CFD 2,330,814 Nominal Delta
1.39%
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights Percentage of voting rights
21,391,416 12.80%
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which
the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively
held, if applicable:
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited - 21,391,416 (12.80%)
Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:
13. Additional information:
14. Contact name: Arnaldo Perez
15. Contact telephone number: 1-305-599-2600