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About: American Can Company

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The American Can Company was a manufacturer of tin cans. It was a member of the Tin Can Trust, that controlled a "large percentage of business in the United States in tin cans, containers, and packages of tin." American Can Company ranked 97th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts. During its peak of productivity, the American Can Company employed up to 800 people from the surrounding neighborhoods. It was a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1959–1991, though after 1987 it had renamed itself Primerica, a financial conglomerate which had divested itself of its packaging arm in 1986.

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  • The American Can Company was a manufacturer of tin cans. It was a member of the Tin Can Trust, that controlled a "large percentage of business in the United States in tin cans, containers, and packages of tin." American Can Company ranked 97th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts. During its peak of productivity, the American Can Company employed up to 800 people from the surrounding neighborhoods. It was a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1959–1991, though after 1987 it had renamed itself Primerica, a financial conglomerate which had divested itself of its packaging arm in 1986. Primerica, after it was merged with Sanford I. Weill's Commercial Credit Company, would form the basis of what would become Citigroup. The American Can Company had its headquarters at the Pershing Square Building in Manhattan, New York City until 1970, when it moved into a Greenwich, Connecticut facility, which had been developed on 150 acres (61 ha) of wooded land in the late 1960s. In the early 1980s American Can renamed itself and ended its operations in Greenwich. (en)
  • A empresa American Can Company foi uma fabricante de latas estadunidense que existiu de 1901 até 1986. A empresa integrava a Tin Can Trust, conglomerado que controlava uma "grande percentagem do mercado estadunidense de latas, recipientes e embalagens", conforme registro jornalístico de 1913. A American Can Company esteve em 90º lugar no ranking de valores dos contratos militares durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, dentre empresas estadunidenses. A empresa foi membro do Dow Jones Industrial Average de 1959 a 1991, ainda que após 1987 tenha sido rebatizada , um conglomerado financeiro que se despojara de sua ramificação na área de embalagens em 1986. A Primerica, ao se fundir com a empresa Commercial Credit (dirigida pelo banqueiro Sanford Weill), formaria a base do atual Citigroup. A American Can Company esteve sediada em Manhattan, Nova Iorque, até o ano de 1970, quando se transferiu para Greenwich, Connecticut, onde encerrou suas operações na década de 1980. (pt)
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  • American Can Company, 1400 Trombly Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County, MI (en)
  • American Can Company, Boston & Hudson Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD (en)
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  • The American Can Company was a manufacturer of tin cans. It was a member of the Tin Can Trust, that controlled a "large percentage of business in the United States in tin cans, containers, and packages of tin." American Can Company ranked 97th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts. During its peak of productivity, the American Can Company employed up to 800 people from the surrounding neighborhoods. It was a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1959–1991, though after 1987 it had renamed itself Primerica, a financial conglomerate which had divested itself of its packaging arm in 1986. (en)
  • A empresa American Can Company foi uma fabricante de latas estadunidense que existiu de 1901 até 1986. A empresa integrava a Tin Can Trust, conglomerado que controlava uma "grande percentagem do mercado estadunidense de latas, recipientes e embalagens", conforme registro jornalístico de 1913. A American Can Company esteve em 90º lugar no ranking de valores dos contratos militares durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, dentre empresas estadunidenses. (pt)
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