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Item 5.02.
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Effective January 1, 2015, Djalma Novaes Jr. will succeed Raymond L. McGowan, Jr. as President of Crown Holdings, Inc.’s (the “Company”) Americas Division. Mr. Novaes previously served as President of the Company’s joint venture, CROWN Embalagens Metalicas da Amazonia S.A. (“Crown Brazil”), since April 2014. Mr. Novaes served as the Chief Operating Officer of Fitesa, a subsidiary of Évora S.A., from March 2012 to April 2014. Before that, Mr. Novaes held a number of positions within the
Company, including Director of Operations for Crown Brazil, as well as Area Manager and Vice President of Operations at CROWN Beverage Packaging North America. Mr. Novaes first joined Crown in 1998.
Raymond L. McGowan, Jr. the current President of the Company’s Americas Division informed the Company of his decision to retire in the first quarter of 2015.
There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Novaes and any other person pursuant to which he was selected as an officer. Mr. Novaes does not have any familial relationship with any director or other executive officer of the Company or any person nominated or
chosen by the Company to become a director or executive officer, and there are no transactions in which Mr. Novaes has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
