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Ball Corporation (BLL)On Oct 10: 31.17  Up 0.42 (1.37%)  
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Ball Corporation
10 Longs Peak Drive
Broomfield, CO 80021-2510
United States - Map
Phone: 303-469-3131
Fax: 303-460-2315
Web Site: http://www.ball.com

DETAILS 
Index Membership:S&P 500
S&P 1500 Super Comp
Sector:Consumer Goods
Industry:Packaging & Containers
Full Time Employees:15,500

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
Ball Corporation provides metal and plastic packaging to the beverage, food, and household products industries. It offers aluminum and steel beverage cans for carbonated soft drinks, beer, energy drinks, and other beverages. The company also produces two-piece and three-piece steel food containers for packaging vegetables, fruit, soups, meat, seafood, nutritional products, pet food, and other products; and polyethylene terephthalate and polypropylene plastic containers used primarily in beverage, and food packaging, as well as high density polyethylene and polypropylene containers for industrial and household product applications. In addition, it develops spacecraft, sensors and instruments, radio frequency systems, and other technologies for the civil, commercial, and national security aerospace markets. Further, the company provides technical services and products to government agencies, prime contractors, and commercial organizations for a range of information warfare, electronic warfare, avionics, intelligence, training, and space systems needs. It has operations in North America, Europe, the People’s Republic of China, Argentina, and Brazil. The company was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    Ball Corporation's Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 1-Oct-08 is better than 34% of S&P 500 companies and 77.8% of Materials companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. R. David Hoover , 62
    Exec. Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer and Pres
    $ 3.61M $ 1.49M
    Mr. Raymond J. Seabrook , 57
    Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Exec. VP
    $ 1.15M $ 1.71M
    Mr. John A. Hayes , 43
    Chief Operating Officer and Exec. VP
    N/A N/A
    Mr. John R. Friedery , 52
    Pres of Metal Beverage Packaging, Americas and Asia
    N/A N/A
    Mr. Hanno C. Fiedler , 62
    Director, Chairman of the Supervisory Board for Ball Packaging Europe Gmbh and Member of Fin. Committee
    N/A N/A
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-07 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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