Crown Holdings

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Crown Holdings Incorporated (formerly Crown Cork & Seal Company), founded in 1892 by William Painter, is a Fortune 500 company based in the United States of America. William Painter, an American of British descent, invented the crown cap for bottled carbonated beverages in 1891, and obtained a patent for it on February 2, 1892. From a modest beginning in 1892, the company had emerged as the world’s leading packaging company, and as of December 31, 2004, was operating 185 plants in 43 countries, and had a total of around 27,500 employees. It claims to manufacture one out of every five beverage cans used in the world, and one out of every three food cans used in North America and Europe.

[edit] See also

• Crown cork

[edit] External links

• Crown Holdings, Inc.
• William Painter, the great inventor of the Crown Cap

Philadelphia-based Corporations (Within the Delaware Valley)
Philadelphia-based Fortune 500 Corporations (by size): Sunoco | Comcast | CIGNA | Aramark | Rohm and Haas Company | Crown Holdings Incorporated | Lincoln National Corporation
Philadelphia-based Fortune 1000 Corporations (by size): Companies listed above, plus Sovereign Bancorp | Pep Boys | FMC Corporation
Delaware Valley-based Fortune 1000 Corporations (by size): Companies listed above, plus AmerisourceBergen | DuPont Company | Campbell Soup | Toll Brothers | Unisys | Jones Apparel Group | UGI Corporation | Ikon Office Solutions | Universal Health Services | SunGard Data Systems | Teleflex | Airgas | Vishay Intertechnology | Charming Shoppes | Commerce Bancorp | Hercules Inc. | Genesis HealthCare | Ametek
Philadelphia-based and Delaware Valley-based non-public or externally owned corporations (by size): GlaxoSmithKline (US Operations) | Burlington Coat Factory | Forman Mills

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