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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ 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/ -- ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ 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/ -- ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ 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 ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ 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/ -- ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ 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...