Overview
Crown Holdings, Inc. is a global packaging manufacturer focused primarily on metal packaging. Its products include aluminum and steel beverage cans and ends, food cans, aerosol packaging, closures, and transit-packaging products such as protective packaging, strapping, equipment and automation. Its four reportable segments are Americas Beverage, European Beverage, Asia Pacific and Transit Packaging.[1][2][3]
Crown reported 2025 net sales of $12.365 billion and approximately 23,000 employees at year-end, operating 179 facilities in 39 countries. Its footprint includes beverage-can operations across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific.[4][5][6][7][8][9] The company traces its origins to Crown Cork & Seal, founded in 1892; Crown Holdings, Inc. was formed as a public holding company in 2003. Its stated mission is to manufacture “best-in-class packaging” while championing “best-in-class teams.” [10][11][12] [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][10][11][12]
Products & services
Crown Holdings’ products include aluminum and steel beverage cans and ends, including slim and sleek formats, with expanded printing and decorating options. It also makes metal food cans and ends, aerosol cans and ends, and metal closures in assorted shapes and sizes for food, personal-care, household, and industrial products. Crown’s global beverage-can business accounted for approximately 73% of consolidated net sales, a broader measure than the specific beverage-can product line in its sales table.[13][14]
Its transit-packaging products include manual, semi-automatic, and automatic equipment and tools for applying or removing strapping and film, as well as steel and plastic strapping, industrial film, protective airbags, edge protectors, and honeycomb products. Crown also provides customer consultation and product-development support, line implementation and quality assurance, and engineering and technical assistance for packaging design and production.[2][13][15]
In 2025, reported product sales were $8.535 billion for metal beverage cans and ends (about 69.0% of total sales), $2.026 billion for transit packaging (16.4%), $943 million for metal food cans and ends (7.6%), $428 million for other products (3.5%), and $433 million for other metal packaging (3.5%). Percentages are calculated from total sales of $12.365 billion.[16] [13][14][2][15][16][16][16][16][16][16]
Geographic presence
Crown Holdings’ 2025 filing reports that international operations generated approximately 61% of consolidated net sales. Its Americas Beverage operations serve the U.S., Brazil, Canada, Colombia and Mexico; the segment reported $5.615 billion in 2025 sales, about 45.4% of company sales. European Beverage operates across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, with facilities listed in countries including France, Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey and the U.K. The segment reported $2.325 billion, about 18.8% of sales.[17][7][18][8][19]
Asia Pacific beverage-can operations span Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam; the segment reported $1.096 billion in 2025 sales, about 8.9% of the total. Transit Packaging has a broad international footprint, with facilities listed across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa; its sales were $2.026 billion, about 16.4%. The Other segment consists primarily of North American tinplate businesses and beverage tooling/equipment operations in the U.S. and U.K.; sales were $1.303 billion, about 10.5%.[20][21][3][19]
At year-end 2025, Crown reported approximately 23,000 employees worldwide, allocated by segment: 6,000 in Americas Beverage, 4,000 in European Beverage, 3,500 in Asia Pacific, 7,000 in Transit Packaging and 2,500 in other business units. The company’s global-locations page lists 179 facilities in 39 countries and identifies headquarters in Tampa, Florida (corporate/Americas and Transit Packaging), Singapore (Asia Pacific) and Baar, Switzerland (Europe).[6][22] [17][7][18][8][19][19][20][21][3][19][19][19][6][22]
Business segments
Crown Holdings reports four business segments. For the six months ended June 30, 2026, Americas Beverage—beverage cans and ends, steel crowns, glass bottles and aluminum closures—generated $3,229 million, or approximately 46.6% of consolidated net sales.[23][24] European Beverage manufactures aluminum beverage cans and ends for customers across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa; it generated $1,323 million, or about 19.1%.[25][24]
Asia Pacific includes beverage-can operations and non-beverage packaging, primarily food cans and specialty packaging; its $634 million in sales represented about 9.1%.[26][24] Transit Packaging provides automation and equipment technologies, protective packaging, and steel and plastic consumables; its $1,033 million represented about 14.9%.[27][24] These shares are calculated using consolidated net sales of $6,927 million as the denominator.[24]
Crown also reported $708 million of “Other” sales, approximately 10.2% of the total, including North American tinplate businesses and beverage tooling and equipment operations. “Other” is not listed as a fifth reportable segment.[28][24] [23][24][25][24][26][24][27][24][24][28][24]
Company history
Crown’s history began in 1892, when William Painter patented the crown cork and founded Crown Cork & Seal in Baltimore. The company expanded its canmaking operations over subsequent decades, introducing high-speed three-piece canmaking in 1930 and reaching 60 plants worldwide by 1977.[10]
From 1990 through 1996, Crown made a series of major acquisitions, including portions of Continental Can, CONSTAR and CarnaudMetalbox, expanding its international packaging operations.[10] In 2003, Crown Cork & Seal formed Crown Holdings, Inc. as a public holding company, with Crown Cork & Seal becoming its wholly owned subsidiary.[11]
Crown continued expanding through acquisitions, including Mivisa in 2014, EMPAQUE in 2015 and Signode in 2018.[29][30][31] In 2021, it sold 80% of its European Tinplate business to KPS, retaining a minority stake; the remaining interest was to be sold as part of the 2024 sale of Eviosys to Sonoco.[32][33] [10][11][29][30][31][32][33]
Sources
- CROWN HOLDINGS, INC. — Full financial report (2025 Y)
- www.crowncork.com[10]
- www.crowncork.com[11]
- us-jobs.crowncork.com[12]
- www.crowncork.com[22]
- CROWN HOLDINGS, INC. — Full financial report (2026 Q 2)
- www.crowncork.com[29]
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- www.crowncork.com[31]
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