Ball to Announce First Quarter Earnings on April 29
March 29 2004 - 11:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Ball to Announce First Quarter Earnings on April 29 BROOMFIELD,
Colo., March 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Corporation will
announce its first quarter earnings on Thursday, April 29, 2004,
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 800-726-5421. International callers should
dial 212-748-2797. For those unable to listen to the live call, a
taped rebroadcast will be available until midnight Mountain Time on
May 6, 2004. To access the rebroadcast, dial 800-633-8284 (domestic
callers) or +1-402-977-9140 (international callers) and enter
21189605 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://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=BLL&script=1010&item_id=869168
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 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 andBrazil; 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, 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:
Investors, Ann 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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