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Ball Declares Dividend; Shareholders Elect Board Members

Thursday 23. April 2009 - Ball Corporation's (NYSE:BLL) board of directors today declared a cash dividend of 10 cents per share, payable June 15, 2009, to shareholders of record on June 1, 2009.

Ball’s shareholders re-elected to the board Robert W. Alspaugh, R. David Hoover and Jan Nicholson at the company’s annual meeting of shareholders held today. Alspaugh, Hoover and Nicholson were re-elected to serve three-year terms expiring in 2012.

Shareholders also voted to ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent public accountants of Ball Corporation for 2009.

Ball will announce its first quarter results on Thursday, April 23, before the market opens. Conference call details are listed below.