Crown Holdings
Crown is a global leader in consumer and industrial packaging items and equipment design, production, and marketing. Crown's consumer packaging offerings include steel and aluminum cans for food, beverage, household, and other consumer products, glass bottles for beverage products, metal vacuum closures, and steel crowns, which are sold to the soft drink, food, citrus, brewing, household products, personal care, and other industries through Crown's sales organization. Crown's industrial packaging products include steel and plastic strap consumables and equipment, paper-based protective packaging, and plastic film consumables and equipment for the metals, food and beverage, construction, agricultural, corrugated, and general industries.
By 1977, it had grown to become the world's largest can and crown manufacturer outside of the United States, with 60 factories. Crown conducted a series of acquisitions between 1989 and 1997, increasing sales from $1.9 billion to more than $8 billion.
As of December 31, 2018, the Company employed over 33,000 people and operated 241 facilities, as well as sales and service sites, in 47 countries. The company's overall net revenues in 2018 were $11.2 billion, with 72 percent coming from operations outside of the US.
The corporation executed a $3.2 billion refinancing plan around the turn of the century, establishing Crown Holdings as a new public holding company. It offers a wide range of packaging goods, including aerosol cans, beverage packaging, closures and capping, and food cans, as well as promotional and transportation packaging.
Founded: 1892
Headquarters: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Revenue: 11.5 billion USD
Website: https://www.crowncork.com/