---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-002319"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CUK"
cik: "0001125259"
company_name: "CARNIVAL PLC"
filed_at: "2025-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T04:29:05.425534+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Sara Mathew to step down from Carnival boards at 2025 annual meeting in April

## Summary
- Sara Mathew will not stand for re-election at the 2025 Annual Meetings of Shareholders.
- She will step down from the Boards of Carnival Corporation and Carnival plc at the conclusion of the meetings expected in April 2025.
- Her decision is to focus on other business ventures; no replacement has been named.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-002319
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CUK
- cik: 0001125259
- company_name: CARNIVAL PLC
- filed_at: 2025-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1125259/000110465925002319/0001104659-25-002319-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/815097/000110465925002319/tm252805d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-002319
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-002319.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-002319.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sara Mathew departed as Director at CARNIVAL PLC.
  - Action: not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 9, 2025, Sara Mathew notified Carnival Corporation and Carnival plc (together, the “Company”) that she has made the decision not to stand for re-election at the 2025 Annual Meetings of Shareholders to allow her to focus on her other business ventures.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1125259/000110465925002319/0001104659-25-002319-index.htm

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