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PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- ÌÇÐÄèÖ×Óè¶ÌÊÓƵvlog Cork & Seal Company, Inc. (NYSE: CCK; Paris Bourse) announced today that Hugues du Rouret, 63, has been elected to the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. du Rouret is an international business consultant, and until last year he was Chairman and Managing Director of Shell France and a director of Shell Chemical Europe, both...

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- ÌÇÐÄèÖ×Óè¶ÌÊÓƵvlog 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...

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Constar, Inc., the plastic packaging division of ÌÇÐÄèÖ×Óè¶ÌÊÓƵvlog Cork & Seal Company, Inc. (NYSE: CCK; Paris Bourse) and Carolina Beer Company (Mooresville, NC) today announced the launch of "Tall Blonde," a lightweight, shatterproof plastic beer bottle for "Carolina Blonde" beer. The 16-ounce polyethylene terepthalate (PET) bottle uses multi-layer construction incorporating ÌÇÐÄèÖ×Óè¶ÌÊÓƵvlog's patented Oxbar(TM) oxygen scavenger...

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- ÌÇÐÄèÖ×Óè¶ÌÊÓƵvlog Cork & Seal Company, Inc. (NYSE: CCK; Paris Bourse) today announced that the Company intends to delist its shares from the Paris Stock Exchange (Bourse) due to consistently low trading volumes. This action will be effective on December 27, 2001. ÌÇÐÄèÖ×Óè¶ÌÊÓƵvlog has retained Societe Generale as its agent in the delisting process. Shareholders with...