Ball Corp (BALL)

Crown is the other large global maker of aluminium beverage cans and bids for the same filling contracts with brewers and soft-drink bottlers in North America, Europe and Brazil, the three regions where Ball earns almost all of its sales.

Ardagh Metal Packaging makes only beverage cans and ends, for the same European and North American beverage brands Ball supplies, and is named as a competitor in Crown's own filing alongside Ball.

CANPACK is the privately held Polish can maker that is the number-two beverage can supplier in Europe and has been adding plants in the United States and the Middle East, directly targeting Ball's customers in those markets.

Trivium, a private Dutch group, competes with Ball's Personal & Home Care division in extruded aluminium aerosol cans and bottles sold to deodorant, hairspray and household-product brands.

Through its Metal Container unit Silgan supplies metal cans to large North American beverage and food fillers, competing with Ball for the same packaging budgets of consumer-goods customers.