Listen Live to Ball Presentation at Smith Barney Citigroup Conference
December 01 2003 - 11:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Listen Live to Ball Presentation at Smith Barney Citigroup
Conference BROOMFIELD, Colo., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball
Corporation , one of the world's leading suppliers of metal and
plastic packaging to the beverage and food industries, will speak
to the investment community on Dec. 4, 2003, at the Smith Barney
Citigroup Global Paper, Forest Products and Packaging Conference to
be held at Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City. R. David
Hoover, Ball's chairman, president and chief executive officer,
will speak at the conference. Ball's presentation is scheduled to
begin at 2:55 p.m. Eastern. To listen to the presentation live via
Web cast, use the following URL:
http://www.veracast.com/ssb/2003/paper/01111182.cfm A replay of the
presentation will be available approximately two hours after the
presentation ends and will be accessible for 30 days. Ball
Corporation is one of the world's leading suppliers of metal and
plastic packaging to the beverage and food industries. The company
also owns Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. With the addition
of Ball Packaging Europe at the end of 2002, Ball expects 2003
sales of approximately $4.9 billion, with approximately $4.4
billion from its two packaging segments and approximately $500
million from its aerospace and technologies segment.
Forward-Looking Statements The information in this news release
contains "forward-looking" statements. Actual results or outcomes
may differ materially from those expressed or implied. As time
passes, the relevance and accuracy of forward-looking statements
contained in this release may change. The company currently does
not intend to update any particular forward-looking statement
except as it deems necessary at quarterly or annual release of
earnings. Please refer to the Form 10-Q filed by Ball Corporation
on Nov. 10, 2003, for a summary of key risk factors that could
affect actual results or outcomes. Factors that might affect the
packaging segments of the company are: fluctuation in consumer and
customer demand; competitive packaging material availability,
pricing and substitution; the weather; fruit, vegetable and fishing
yields; company and industry productive capacity and competitive
activity; lack of productivity improvement or production cost
reductions; regulatory action or laws, including the German
mandatory deposit or other restrictive packaging laws and
environmental and workplace safety regulations; availability and
cost of raw materials, energy and transportation; the ability or
inability to pass on to customers changes in these costs,
particularly resin, steel and aluminum; pricing and ability or
inability to sell scrap; international business risks (including
foreign exchange rates and tax rates) particularly in the United
States, Europe and in developing countries such as China and
Brazil; and the effect of LIFO accounting on earnings. Factors that
may affect the aerospace segment are: funding, authorization and
availability of government contracts and the nature and
continuation of those contracts; and technical uncertainty
associated with aerospace segment contracts. Factors that could
affect the company as a whole include those listed plus: successful
and unsuccessful acquisitions, joint ventures or divestitures and
the integration activities associated therewith including the
integration and operation of the business of Schmalbach-Lubeca AG,
now known as Ball Packaging Europe; the inability to purchase the
company's common stock; insufficient or reduced cash flow;
regulatory action or laws including those related to corporate
governance and financial reporting, regulations and standards;
actual and estimated business consolidation and investment costs
and the net realizable value of assets associated with these
activities; goodwill impairment; changes in generally accepted
accounting principles or their interpretation; litigation;
antitrust, intellectual property, consumer and other issues;
strikes; boycotts; increases in various employee benefits and labor
costs, specifically pension, medical and health care costs incurred
in the countries in which Ball has operations; rates of return
projected and earned on assets of the company's defined benefit
retirement plans; interest rates and level of company debt,
including floating rate debt; terrorist activities, war or
catastrophic events that disrupt or impact production, supply or
pricing of the company's goods and services, including raw
materials and energy costs, or disrupt or impact the credit and
financing of the company's businesses; and U.S. and foreign
economic conditions. DATASOURCE: Ball Corporation CONTACT: media,
Scott McCarty, +1-303-460-2103, , or investors, Ann Scott,
+1-303-460-3537, , both of Ball Corporation Web site:
http://www.veracast.com/ssb/2003/paper/01111182.cfm Web site:
http://www.ball.com/
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