Continental Can Company History

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“Driving Product Development Through Innovation, Acquisitions & Diversification
Within a Packaging Giant”. A hard cover book.

The development of the book and contents continues to advance and evolve as more research, facts and information is obtained.

The current Table of Contents (under on-going improvements) is as follows:
1. Introduction / Dedication / Acknowledgements
2. Table of Contents
3. Preface
4. The Inception of an Industry
  1. Prelude – commercialization of can making
  2. The Playing Field
  3. The Tin Plate Gang
  4. The Norton Brothers
  5. The Tin Can Gang
  6. The Creation of ACC
  7. The Creation of CCC
  8. Getting its footings
5. A Public Race for Domination – Norton / Hartlieb / Conway
  1. The Sanitary Can
  2. CCC becomes a Public Traded Company
  3. Organic Growth
  4. The Government Investigates
  5. CCC Acquisitions and Expansion
  6. Geographic Diversification
  7. A Focus on Equipment Manufacturing
  8. General Packaging – Significant Product Proliferation
  9. The Oil Can
  10. The Application of Advertisement
  11. The Beer Can
  12. Continental Can Canada, Inc.
  13. Licensing and Technical Relationships
  14. Government Intervention
  15. Standardization and Industrial Engineering
  16. Diversification into Closures
  17. Machine Design
6. Wartime, Unions and Packaging Diversification – Eggerss / Conway
  1. Fibre Drum Diversification
  2. War Time Efforts
  3. Expansion Across All Products
  4. Labor Relations / Unions
  5. Expansion of the Equipment Division
  6. The Paper Cup Diversification
  7. The Plastic Diversification
  8. Aerosol Diversification
  9. Heller / Standards and Accounting Systems
7. Significant Packaging Diversification / the General Clay years
  1. A New Transformational Leadership
  2. Developing Staff, Management and Organizational Culture
  3. The Idea Plan
  4. More Government Intervention
  5. Soft Drink Diversification
  6. Citrus Diversification
  7. Paper Diversification
  8. Further Plastic Diversification
  9. Flexible Packaging Diversification
  10. More Marketing and Advertisements
  11. Aircraft / Military / Missile Diversification
  12. Further Closure Diversification – White Cap
  13. Significant Paper Diversification – Robert Gair
  14. Glass Diversification – Hazel-Atlas
  15. The Technical Centre Consolidation
8. Consolidation / The Fogarty Years
  1. Organizational Archetype and Culture
  2. The Plastic Blow Molded Diversification
  3. Easy Open End Unit Diversification
  4. Two Piece Can Diversification
  5. Litigation
  6. Environmental Concerns
  7. A Fork in the Packaging Road
  8. Conoweld and Conoplant Strategies
  9. The Growth of the Forest Industries Group
  10. The Dynamics of the Diversified Group
9.Further Packaging Diversification / The Hazard Years
  1. The SLW Acquisition
  2. The TDV Acquisition
  3. Europemballage
  4. The Teepak Acquisition
  5. International Operations
  6. Two Piece Can Direction
  7. The Plastic PET Bottle Diversification
10.Conglomerate Type Diversification / The Hatfield Years
  1. The Downturn in the Metal Can
  2. Recycling and “Ban the Can” Movement
  3. Environmental Issues
  4. Consolidating Corporate Offices
  5. The Plastics Ventures Group
  6. Rebranding Continental – Change in Corporate Image & Diversification
  7. Downsizing the Research Group
  8. The Insurance / Finance Group
  9. The Energy Group
  10. An Automotive Group
11. A Defocussing from Packaging / The Smart Years
  1. The Sale of the Brown Paper Group
  2. The Sale of Continental Group of Canada
  3. The Sale of PET
  4. More Energy Diversification
  5. More Financial Services Diversification
  6. No Poison Pill Strategy
  7. The ERISA Litigations
  8. The Sale of the Company
12. What Can We Make on these Assets / The Kiewit Years
  1. Downsizing and Refocussing
  2. The Sale of the Insurance Group
  3. The Sale of the Energy Group
  4. Growth of Two Piece Can
  5. The ERISA Litigations Continue
  6. The Sale of CCC USA Food and Beverage
  7. The rest of the Garage Sale
13.The Rest of the Band, the Roadies, and other Events
  1. Sales and Order Centres
  2. Marketing and Product Development
  3. Research
  4. CTS and CESD
  5. Graphic Arts, CIRCA and CONTEX
  6. Engineering
  7. Corporate, Divisional and Administrative
  8. Human Resources and Industrial Relations
  9. Purchasing, Traffic and Warehousing
  10. A View to the Communities CCC operated in
  11. Extraordinary Events
14. Notes
15. Bibliography and References
16. Photograph References
17. Timelines