WESTMINSTER, Colo.,
Jan. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball
Corporation (NYSE: BLL) today announced that The Ball Foundation
will donate $1 million and deploy
other disaster relief efforts to support communities in
Colorado devastated by the recent
wildfires.
To support victims of the Marshall fire, Ball coordinated
with the governor's office to ensure any support was directed at
the most local and targeted level, and will contribute $1 million to the Community Foundation Boulder
County, benefiting the Boulder County Wildfire Fund, which is
working closely with local government and
nonprofit partners to coordinate, align resources
and fill gaps to support those most impacted by
the wildfire. The Ball Foundation will match employee
donations as part of the company's ongoing community giving support
efforts in addition to working with local partners, to assess
local clean drinking water needs and will distribute canned water
as needed.
"Our thoughts are with everyone impacted by the terrible
wildfire that hit our home state of Colorado last week," said John Hayes, chairman and CEO of Ball. "Many Ball
employees live and work in the areas impacted by the sudden
wildfire outbreak and have experienced the devastation firsthand.
This is our community and we're committed to helping with recovery
and rebuilding efforts both financially and by mobilizing our
employee base through volunteer recovery efforts."
Ball employs approximately 7,000 people in Colorado and has been part of the community
for over 65 years. Ball's operations have not been impacted
by the fires.
About The Ball Foundation
The Ball Foundation is a
501(c)(3) nonprofit, private foundation. Founded in December 2010,
The Ball Foundation's mission is to provide financial support to
nonprofit organizations that sustain the communities in which we
live and operate by improving and promoting education, recycling
and community engagement. For more information about the Ball
Foundation, please visit our foundation website.
About Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation supplies
innovative, sustainable aluminum packaging solutions for beverage,
personal care and household products customers, as well as
aerospace and other technologies and services primarily for the
U.S. government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ
21,500 people worldwide and reported 2020 net sales of $11.8
billion. For more information, visit www.ball.com, or connect
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update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise. Key factors,
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and
results to be different are summarized in filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including Exhibit 99 in our
Form 10-K, which are available on our website and
at www.sec.gov. Additional factors that might affect: a) our
packaging segments include product capacity, supply, and demand
constraints and fluctuations and changes in consumption patterns;
availability/cost of raw materials, equipment, and logistics;
competitive packaging, pricing and substitution; changes in climate
and weather; footprint adjustments and other manufacturing changes,
including the startup of new facilities and lines; failure to
achieve synergies, productivity improvements or cost reductions;
unfavorable mandatory deposit or packaging laws; customer and
supplier consolidation; power and supply chain interruptions;
changes in major customer or supplier contracts or loss of a major
customer or supplier; inability to pass through increased costs;
political instability and sanctions; currency controls; changes in
foreign exchange or tax rates; and tariffs, trade actions, or other
governmental actions, including business restrictions and
shelter-in-place orders in any country or jurisdiction affecting
goods produced by us or in our supply chain, including imported raw
materials; b) our aerospace segment include funding, authorization,
availability and returns of government and commercial contracts;
and delays, extensions and technical uncertainties affecting
segment contracts; c) the Company as a whole include those listed
above plus: the extent to which sustainability-related
opportunities arise and can be capitalized upon; changes in senior
management, succession, and the ability to attract and retain
skilled labor; regulatory actions or issues including those related
to tax, ESG reporting, competition, environmental, health and
workplace safety, including U.S. FDA and other actions or public
concerns affecting products filled in our containers, or chemicals
or substances used in raw materials or in the manufacturing
process; technological developments and innovations; the ability to
manage cyber threats; litigation; strikes; disease; pandemic; labor
cost changes; inflation; rates of return on assets of the Company's
defined benefit retirement plans; pension changes; uncertainties
surrounding geopolitical events and governmental policies,
including policies, orders, and actions related to COVID-19;
reduced cash flow; interest rates affecting our debt; and
successful or unsuccessful joint ventures, acquisitions and
divestitures, and their effects on our operating results and
business generally.
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