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New Beverage Can Plant Planned to Support Strong Customer Demand in Region PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ) ( 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/ -- ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ 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/ -- ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ) ( 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. ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ's patented design uses 10% less metal than traditional beverage ends, providing significant sustainability advantages. To date, ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ and its licensees...

PHILADELPHIA, July 16, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ 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...