PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) today announced that it has signed an agreement to license Showa Aluminum Can Corporation to produce and sell SuperEnd(R) beverage can ends for the Japanese market. The agreement was reached with the assistance of Marubeni Techno-Systems Corp., a Japanese trading company. Crown's patented SuperEnd(R) beverage end design uses 10%...

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) announced today that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $150 million of the Company's common stock through the end of 2007. Stock repurchases under this program may be made in the open market or through privately negotiated transactions, and at times and in such amounts...

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) announced today that Karen E. Berigan has been promoted to Vice President, Corporate Risk Management. Ms. Berigan has 15 years experience in the field of risk management and has been with the Company since 2000. She previously served as Director, Corporate Risk Management. She will continue to be responsible...

Almaty plant to produce 33cl and 50cl beverage cans PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CROWN Bevcan Europe & Middle East, a division of Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown), today announced plans to build a new beverage can production facility in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan. Located in the Burundai suburb of Almaty and adjacent to local customer filling...