A package of beverage cans or similar articles wherein the articles are enclosed in multiple row arrangement in a tubular container which forms a carrier and which is fabricated from a blank of foldable sheet material, the blank being cut and scored to provide top, bottom and side walls with pairs of closure forming flaps at the opposite ends of the side walls which closure flaps are adapted to be hinged into end wall closing position and retained in such position by interlocking tongue and slot arrangements in overlapping margins thereof and provision being made for a tear out opening at the bottom of one end wall for dispensing the cans one at a time.