PHILADELPHIA, March 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown 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 speak to the investment community at the Deutsche Bank Basic Industries Conference at The Grand Hyatt in New York City on March 31, 2003.

PHILADELPHIA, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) announced today that the European Patent Office ("EPO") upheld Crown's European SuperEnd(TM) beverage end patent (EP 0 828 663 B1), with slight modification, against an opposition lodged by a competitor. The EPO Opposition Division upheld claims covering Crown's commercial SuperEnd(TM) beverage ends and its proprietary seaming technology. This decision reinforces SuperEnd's(TM) leadership position and protects this proprietary technology for Crown and its licensees. The EPO's decision will become final

PHILADELPHIA, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., has accepted for purchase and payment, pursuant to its offer to purchase, all of the notes which were validly tendered and not validly withdrawn as of the expiration of the offers at 12:01 a.m., New York City time, on Wednesday, March 5, 2003. A preliminary count by the depositary shows that the following notes were validly tendered and not validly withdrawn as of the expiration of the offers:

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) announced today that it has priced $2.1 billion of senior secured notes, which was upsized from an original announced deal size of $1.75 billion. The $2.1 billion consists of $1.085 billion of 9-1/2% second priority senior secured notes due 2011, euro 285 million of 10-1/4% second priority senior secured notes due 2011 and $725 million of 10-7/8% third priority senior secured notes due 2013.