Ball to Announce Second Quarter Earnings on July 28
July 01 2005 - 1:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
Ball to Announce Second Quarter Earnings on July 28 BROOMFIELD,
Colo., July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Corporation (NYSE:BLL)
will announce its second quarter earnings on Thursday, July 28,
2005, before trading begins on the New York Stock Exchange. At 9
a.m. Mountain Time on that day (11 a.m. Eastern), Ball will hold
its regular quarterly conference call on the company's results and
performance. R. David Hoover, Ball's chairman, president and chief
executive officer, will host the call. The North American toll-free
number for the call is 888-328-2938. International callers should
dial 415-537-1912. For those unable to listen to the live call, a
taped rebroadcast will be available until 10 p.m. Mountain Time on
Aug. 4, 2005. To access the rebroadcast, dial 800-633-8284
(domestic callers) or +1-402-977-9140 (international callers) and
enter 21250498 as the reservation number. To listen to the call via
Web cast, please use the following URL for the live call and for
replay: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-
eventDetails&c=115234&eventID=1092714 A written transcript
of the call will also be posted within 48 hours of the call's
conclusion to Ball's Web site at http://www.ball.com/ in the
investor relations section under "presentations." Ball Corporation
is a supplier of high-quality metal and plastic packaging products,
primarily for the beverage and food industries. The company also
owns Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., which develops
sensors, spacecraft, systems and components for government and
commercial markets. The company employs more than 13,200 people and
reported 2004 sales of $5.4 billion. Forward-Looking Statements The
information in this news release contains "forward-looking"
statements and other statements concerning future events and
financial performance. Words such as "expects," "anticipates,"
"estimates," and variations of same and similar expressions are
intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause
actual results to differ materially from those expressed or
implied. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or
revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise. Key risks and
uncertainties are summarized in the company's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, especially in Exhibit 99.2 in
the most recent Form 10-K. These filings are available at our Web
site and at http://www.sec.gov/. Factors that might affect our
packaging segments include fluctuation in consumer and customer
demand; availability and cost of raw materials, particularly the
recent significant increases in resin, steel, aluminum and energy
costs, and the ability to pass such increases on to customers;
competitive packaging availability, pricing and substitution;
changes in climate and weather; fruit, vegetable and fishing
yields; industry productive capacity and competitive activity; lack
of productivity improvement or production cost reductions; the
German mandatory deposit or other restrictive packaging laws;
changes in major customer or supplier contracts or loss of a major
customer or supplier; international business risks, including
foreign exchange rates, tax rates and activities of foreign
subsidiaries; and the effect of LIFO accounting on earnings.
Factors that might affect aerospace segment include: funding,
authorization and availability of government contracts and the
nature and continuation of those contracts; and technical
uncertainty associated with segment contracts. Factors that could
affect the company as a whole include those listed plus:
acquisitions, joint ventures or divestitures; regulatory action or
laws including environmental and workplace safety; governmental
investigations; goodwill impairment; antitrust and other
litigation; strikes; boycotts; increases in employee benefits and
labor costs; rates of return projected and earned on assets of the
company's defined benefit retirement plans; reduced cash flow;
interest rates affecting our debt; and changes to unaudited results
due to statutory audits or management's evaluation of the company's
internal control over financial reporting. DATASOURCE: Ball
Corporation CONTACT: Investors, Ann. T. Scott, +1-303-460-3537, ,
or Media, Scott McCarty, +1-303-460-2103, , both of Ball
Corporation Web site: http://www.ball.com/
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