New Beverage Can Plant Planned to Support Strong Customer Demand in Region PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) ( www.crowncork.com), announces that it will construct a new beverage can plant in Kechnec, in eastern Slovakia. The new plant, which will be operational in Q4 2009, will have an initial capacity of 750 million cans a...

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), announced today that John W. Conway, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer and Alan W. Rutherford, Vice Chairman, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer will address the KeyBanc Basic Materials & Packaging Conference in Boston, Massachusetts on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 and Timothy J. Donahue, Senior...

PHILADELPHIA, July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) ( www.crowncork.com) announces that it has signed a license agreement with Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd. for it to manufacture and sell SuperEnd(R) beverage ends for the Japanese market. Crown's patented design uses 10% less metal than traditional beverage ends, providing significant sustainability advantages. To date, Crown and its licensees...

PHILADELPHIA, July 16, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008. Second Quarter Highlights Net Sales grew 10.4% to $2,196 million Gross Profit improved 23.1% to $352 million Segment income rose 28.0% to $247 million Earnings per diluted share increased 13.0% to $0.61...

PHILADELPHIA, July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) will release its earnings for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008 after the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, July 16, 2008. The Company will hold a conference call to discuss these results at 9:00 a.m. (EDT) on Thursday, July 17, 2008. The dial-in...

PHILADELPHIA, June 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) ( https://www.crowncork.com) announces the construction of a new beverage can plant on its existing food can manufacturing site in Casablanca, Morocco. Operational in late 2009, the plant will produce aluminum beverage cans with an initial capacity of 700 million cans a year. The facility is being designed to accommodate...

PHILADELPHIA, May 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), announced today that John W. Conway, Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer and Timothy J. Donahue, Senior Vice President-Finance will address the JPMorgan 3rd Annual Basics & Industrials Conference on Wednesday, June 4, 2008. The Conference will take place at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers...

PHILADELPHIA, May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), announced today that Timothy J. Donahue, Senior Vice President- Finance, will address the Goldman Sachs Basic Materials Conference in New York City on Thursday, May 22, 2008. The Conference will take place in the Goldman Sachs Convention Center at 32 Old Slip in New York City. The presentation will begin...

PHILADELPHIA, April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), announced today that Timothy J. Donahue, Senior Vice President-Finance, will address the Bank of America 2008 BASics/Industrials Conference in New York on Thursday, May 8, 2008. The Conference will take place at the New York Palace Hotel in New York, NY. The presentation will begin at 8:40 a.m. (EDT). A...

Gross Profit Improves by More Than 19% PHILADELPHIA, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) today announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008. Net sales in the first quarter grew to $1,863 million, up 8.8% over the $1,713 million in the first quarter of 2007. The increase in sales was primarily due to...

PHILADELPHIA, March 27, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) will release its earnings for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008 after the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, April 16, 2008. The Company will hold a conference call to discuss these results at 9:00 a.m. (EDT) on Thursday...

PHILADELPHIA, March 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), announced today that Timothy J. Donahue, Senior Vice President- Finance, will address the Lehman Brothers 2008 High Yield Bond and Syndicated Loan Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida on Thursday, March 13, 2008. The Lehman Brothers Conference will take place at the Disney Yacht and Beach Club in Lake Buena...

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) announced today that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $500 million of the Company's common stock through the end of 2010. Stock repurchases under this program may be made in the open market or through privately negotiated transactions, and at times and in such...

PHILADELPHIA, Jan 30, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2007. During the fourth quarter of 2007, the Company changed its method of accounting for the cost of inventories in its United States operations from the last-in, first-out (LIFO) method to...

PHILADELPHIA, Jan 07, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) will release its earnings for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2007 after the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, January 30, 2008. The Company will hold a conference call to discuss these results at 9:30 a.m. (EST)...

PHILADELPHIA, Dec 17, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) ( www.crowncork.com) announced today that Raymond L. McGowan, Jr., age 55, has been selected to replace Frank J. Mechura, age 64, as President of its Americas Division effective January 1, 2008. Mr. McGowan will report to John W. Conway, Crown's Chairman and Chief Executive...

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) announced today that it has completed its previously announced accelerated share repurchase agreement with BNP Paribas. Pursuant to the agreement, the Company purchased 4,234,077 shares of its common stock for $100 million. To date in 2007, the Company has purchased 4,974,892 shares for $118 million. About Crown Holdings, Inc. Crown...

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), announced today that Timothy J. Donahue, Senior Vice President- Finance will address the Longbow Research Paper & Packaging Conference at 9:20 am Central Time (10:20 am EST) on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at the ADA Conference Center in Chicago. A live web cast of the event will be available to...

Gross Profit Improves by 20% PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) today announced its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2007. Third Quarter Results Net sales in the third quarter rose to $2,153 million, up 7.6% over the $2,001 million in the third quarter of 2006. The increase was primarily...

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