Crown Beverage Packaging Mexico Honored By MillerCoors As Its 2018 Supplier Of The Year And Most Valuable Plant

Crown Beverage Packaging Mexico Honored By MillerCoors As Its 2018 Supplier Of The Year And Most Valuable Plant

Crown wins Supplier of the Year award for the second time in three years

Publish Date
Friday, August 30, 2019
Yardley, PA – August 30, 2019. MillerCoors has recognized Crown Beverage Packaging Mexico, a business unit of Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) (www.crowncork.com), as its 2018 Packaging Materials Supplier of the Year and Packaging Materials Most Valuable Plant. The double-award win signifies a first for Crown, who previously received MillerCoors’ Packaging Materials Supplier of the Year award in 2016...

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Crown Opens New U.S.-Based Graphics Studio To Optimize Package Design And Speed Time To Market For Beverage Brands

Easy-to-access facility offers one-stop-shop for customers

Publish Date
Friday, August 16, 2019
Yardley, PA – August 16, 2019 — To help North American beverage brands maximize the impact of their packaging graphics and expedite product launches, Crown Beverage Packaging North America, a business unit of Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) (www.crowncork.com), has opened the doors to a new graphics studio. Located in Ambler, PA, the 14,000-sq.-ft. facility features cutting-edge technologies that...

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Add Some Pop To Life!

Crown’s Accents™ variable printing technology helps Italian brewery connect with younger demographic

Publish Date
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Yardley, PA – July 30, 2019. Life is colorful, life is fun. Throw in a bit of POP and you have pretty much summed up the ethos of Italian craft brewer Baladin as it looks to engage millennials with the country’s very first craft beer in cans, branded POP (short for popular beer). Passionate owner and brewer Teo Musso –...

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The Water of Life

Publish Date
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Uisge Beatha – Gaelic for water of life – preceded the common modern term “whisky,” and on National Scotch Day (July 27), we celebrate the spirit’s enduring popularity. According to the Scotch Whisky Association, the drink’s first appearance was in the Exchequer Rolls lists of 1494. It was documented that Friar John Cor received ‘Eight bolls of malt wherewith to...

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Raise a Can for National Beer Day

Publish Date
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Aside from tried-and-true water, beer is one of the oldest beverages in the history of humankind. The development of cereals for foodstuffs is the most likely source of its origins. The wild yeasts present in the air would start the fermentation process when the cereals themselves became wet, making pioneer craft brewers among those that were living around 12,000 years...

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Looking Back on a Successful BrauBeviale 2018

Publish Date
Monday, March 18, 2019
From November 13-15, 2018, over 40,000 beverage industry decision makers gathered at BrauBeviale, in what was the show’s most fruitful year in its history. We used the show as a platform to connect with current and potential customers, showcase our broad range of innovations, including interactive packaging, and demonstrate the role metal packaging can play in building brands. One of...

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Danone Unveils New "4U" Line of Carbonated Juices and Teas in Brazil in Sleek Style Beverage Cans from Crown

Launch marks the brand’s debut in the natural beverage market

Publish Date
Friday, February 8, 2019
Yardley, PA – February 8, 2019. To deliver new beverage options to consumers seeking healthier alternatives, Danone Waters Brazil has partnered with Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) ( www.crowncork.com ) to launch its newest brand, 4U by Danone. Debuting in the Brazil market in November, the 4U line features two carbonated juices and two flavored teas, all made with...

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Elevating Wine and Spirits Brands with Innovative Packaging

Publish Date
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Packaging plays a key role in differentiating brands and driving sales throughout the beverage industry. However, for wine and spirits brands, which operate at the top tier of the spectrum, the importance of packaging is intensified. These premium products often epitomize leisure and luxury. As such, they need to project an outward appearance of high quality, elegance and sophistication. When...

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Packaging for the Senses

Publish Date
Monday, January 21, 2019
Consumer demand drives product proliferation across a wide variety of food and beverage categories. In order to keep their interest at point of sale, brands are increasingly going the extra mile to capture consumer attention. On second thought, let’s change that to five miles – representing the five senses that manufacturers can tap into with metal packaging solutions. First, there...

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Add More ‘Experience’ to Your Brand

Publish Date
Monday, January 7, 2019
Engagement between brands and consumers has never been greater. Modern technology has enabled a new generation of shoppers, who are able to comment on, share and review their experiences in real-time. This dialogue means that ‘brand experience’ is no longer shaped by the few, but by many. With the appetite for interaction increasing steadily in our digitally driven world, now...

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Neon green Mountain Dew can
Yardley, PA – December 13, 2018. Mountain Dew, a PepsiCo International brand, has launched a special edition 33cl package featuring fluorescent inks in the Middle East. Designed to attract consumer attention and boost sales in the hot summer season, the ultra-bright green color on the can accentuates the bold Mountain Dew logo and reinforces the brand’s image. The neon color...

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Crown Scores a Home Run on the 2018 Awards Field

Publish Date
Monday, November 26, 2018
Yardley, PA – November 20, 2018. In the last few weeks, Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) ( www.crowncork.com ), has received several prestigious industry awards for innovations that help advance the global beverage can industry. The awards recognize Crown technologies that create new opportunities to interact with consumers at the point of consumption, strengthen brand loyalty, provide differentiation at...

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New Decorative Finishes from Crown Help Beverage Brands Boost Shelf Presence, Build Consumer Loyalty

Finishes on Display at BrauBeviale 2018, Hall 4, Stand 4-237

Publish Date
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Yardley, PA – November 13, 2018. Crown Bevcan Europe & Middle East, a business unit of Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) ( www.crowncork.com ), is debuting several decorative finishes at BrauBeviale 2018 (Hall 4, Stand 4-237) to help beverage brands enhance visual appeal and foster greater interaction with consumers. The finishes are an extension of Crown’s “Colourful World” technology...

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Crown to Feature a Raft of Innovations at BrauBeviale

Publish Date
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Crown Bevcan Europe & Middle East will return to BrauBeviale , Nuremberg (November 13-15) this year with a raft of unique packaging technologies that can help beverage brands distinguish themselves on retail shelves. Advances in shaping and decoration and alternative can sizes will be the key focus at Stand 4-4237, which demonstrate unique ways that brands build connections with today’s...

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A Glowing Solution for Halloween Spooks

Publish Date
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
This year, 74% of Americans will spend a total of $2.4 billion on Halloween decorations for their homes. To help all food and beverage manufacturers get in on the fun, Crown offers a range of decorative techniques to dress up the packaging of products that consumers love. Imagine inks with phosphorescent pigments that glow in the dark, embossing and debossing...

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Supporting the World of Whisky

Publish Date
Friday, July 27, 2018
Get ready to celebrate! July 27th is Scotch Whisky Day, offering the perfect opportunity to enjoy this popular spirit and learn about its versatility. Over the years, the distillation process has been refined, and some might say perfected, by a growing number of distillers in Scotland. The end result is what many would refer to as the national alcoholic drink...

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Crown Triumphs at the 2018 IMDA Awards

Stand-out, brand-building designs for coffee, cookies, soft drinks and beer recognized for printing and decorating excellence

Publish Date
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Philadelphia, PA – July 26, 2018. Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) ( www.crowncork.com ) walked away from the 2018 International Metal Decorators Association (IMDA) Excellence in Quality competition with five awards, including the event’s top prize, the Grand Award. The tally also made Crown the most honored company at this year’s event. A Christmas package created for a coffee...

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Fact Tab and Front

CrownConnect™ Facilitates New Industry-First “Almond” Blockchain Technology For Fact Water

The technology facilitates greater brands transparency and consumer interaction

Publish Date
Friday, June 15, 2018
Philadelphia, PA – June 15, 2018. In a first for the beverage industry, Crown Bevcan Europe & Middle East, a business unit of Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) (www.crowncork.com), is launching its CrownConnect ™ technology in conjunction with FACT - an all-natural sparkling drink. Each can will be marked with a 2D unique scannable code, making FACT beverage cans the first ever to be produced with a unique digital identity.

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