Listen Live to Ball Presentation at the Credit Suisse First Boston Global Basics Conference
March 01 2004 - 2:32PM
PR Newswire (US)
Listen Live to Ball Presentation at the Credit Suisse First Boston
Global Basics Conference BROOMFIELD, Colo., March 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
March 4, 2004, at the Credit Suisse First Boston Global Basics
Conference. R. David Hoover, Ball's chairman, president and chief
executive officer, and John R. Friedery, Ball's senior vice
president and chief operating officer, North American packaging,
will speak at the conference. Ball's presentation is scheduled to
begin at 2:20 p.m. Eastern. To listen to the presentation live via
Web cast, please go to the following URL:
http://www.csfb.com/csfbtv/Americas/globalbasics2004/ball_220pm/index.html
A replay of the presentation will be available approximately two
hours after the presentation ends at http://www.ball.com/ in the
investor relations section and will be accessible for at least 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. Ball
reported 2003 sales of $4.9 billion. 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 theGerman 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 includingthe
integration and operation of the business of Ball Packaging Europe;
the number and timing of the purchases of 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.ball.com/
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