Listen Live to Ball Presentation at the Lehman Brothers High Yield Bond & Syndicated Loan Conference
March 19 2004 - 9:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Listen Live to Ball Presentation at the Lehman Brothers High Yield
Bond & Syndicated Loan Conference BROOMFIELD, Colo., March 19
/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 at the
Lehman Brothers High Yield Bond & Syndicated Loan Conference at
Disney's Yacht & Beach Club Resort in Orlando, Fla., on March
24, 2004. Scott C. Morrison, vice president and treasurer, will
speak at the conference. Ball's presentation is scheduled to begin
at 7:45 a.m. Eastern. To listen to the presentation live via Web
cast, please go to the following URL:
http://customer.nvglb.com/LEHM002/032204a_by/default.asp?entity=ball.
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 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-K filed by Ball Corporation on March 12, 2004, 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 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, intellectualproperty, 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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