PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) ( www.crowncork.com), today announced that its Brazilian subsidiary, CROWN Embalagens S.A., plans to build a new $60 million beverage can plant in Brazil. The new facility is expected to be operational in the second quarter of 2011 and will have an initial annual capacity of 700 million cans. The...

PHILADELPHIA, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009. Second Quarter Highlights -- Gross profit improved to 16.2% of net sales -- Segment income rose to 11.8% of net sales -- Diluted earnings per share increased 6.6% to $0.65 Commenting on the results, John W. Conway...

PHILADELPHIA, June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown), a leading supplier of packaging products worldwide, announced today that its subsidiary, CROWN Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd has acquired a beverage can production facility located northeast of Ho Chi Minh City in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam from Interfood Shareholding Company (VNSE: IFS). Interfood will retain a minority investment interest...

PHILADELPHIA, June 29, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) today said it has been notified of an unsolicited "mini-tender" offer by TRC Capital Corporation, a private Canadian investment company, to purchase up to three million shares of Crown's common stock, which represents about 1.9% of Crown's outstanding common stock. Crown noted that TRC's unsolicited offer of...