Crown Holdings Completes EMPAQUE Acquisition


PHILADELPHIA – Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), a global leader in consumer packaging, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of EMPAQUE, a leading Mexican manufacturer of aluminum cans and ends, bottle caps and glass bottles for the beverage industry, from Heineken N.V.



EMPAQUE, headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, currently operates two beverage can plants, a plant that manufactures beverage can ends, aluminum closures and bottle caps, a glass bottle plant and a glass service facility in Mexico, with a total of approximately 1,500 employees.



About Crown Holdings, Inc.



Headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, Crown Holdings, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of packaging products for consumer marketing companies around the world. Crown makes a wide range of metal packaging for food, beverage, household and personal care and industrial products and metal vacuum closures and caps. As of December 31, 2014, the Company operated 149 plants located in 40 countries, employing 23,024 people. For more information, visit www.crowncork.com.



For more information, contact:

Thomas A. Kelly, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, (215) 698-5341, or Thomas T. Fischer, Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Affairs, (215) 552-3720.



SOURCE Crown Holdings, Inc.



Web Site: http://www.crowncork.com

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