Ball Corporation Board Elects Michael J. Cave as New Member

Ball Corporation’s board of directors elected Michael J. Cave, retired senior vice president from The Boeing Company, to serve as a director of the corporation.

Cave served Boeing for 31 years, most recently as president of Boeing Capital Corp., a wholly owned Boeing subsidiary responsible for arranging, structuring and providing financing for Boeing’s commercial airplane and space and defense products. Prior to that, he served as senior vice president of business development and strategy for the corporation; senior vice president and general manager for Boeing’s commercial airplane programs; chief financial officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, and vice president of finance for Boeing Information, Space & Defense Systems. Cave currently serves on the board of directors for Harley-Davidson, Inc. and Aircastle Limited.

The board also declared a cash dividend of 13 cents per share, payable Dec. 15, 2014, to shareholders of record as of Dec. 1, 2014. Ball will report its third quarter 2014 earnings on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014.