PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) announced that it has completed the sale of its fragrance pump manufacturing business located in Thomaston, Connecticut to Rexam PLC for approximately $107 million in cash subject to a net asset adjustment. Net proceeds from the transaction were used to reduce outstanding short-term indebtedness. The Thomaston plant...

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) will release its earnings for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2001 before trading begins on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, February 14, 2002. The Company will hold its customary conference call to discuss these results at 11 a.m. (EST) the same day...

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. (NYSE: CCK; Paris Bourse) announced today that Governor Schweiker of Pennsylvania signed into law a bill that limits the asbestos-related liabilities of Pennsylvania companies such as Crown that incurred those liabilities because they are successors by corporate merger to companies that had been involved with asbestos. The bill was...

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. (NYSE: CCK; Paris Bourse) today announced an agreement to sell its fragrance pump manufacturing business located in Thomaston, Connecticut to Rexam PLC for approximately $107 million subject to a net asset adjustment. Net proceeds from the transaction will be used to reduce outstanding short-term indebtedness. The Company expects to...