Vantaggi
Crown is in a good market with enough inertia to sustain itself with moderate growth potential. Growth potential could be more significant with key changes in management team.
Svantaggi
Owner and family disconnected from true company situation as it relates to morale, technical direction, and project management and implementation. Some facilities are in dire straights quality and product wise but this is buried in how things report up. Jim III is a good man best i can tell but the company is so big he has to trust others to steer the company. Some of those people he trusts have real ethical problems and have very unethical directors and managers. It's 50-50 chance if you get a good or bad manager or director to work for. At Crown it is as much about WHO you know as it is WHAT you know. Poor quality issues plague certain products and that is embarrassing.