Hormel Foods awards Silgan Containers its Spirit of Excellence Award for fifteenth consecutive year

Woodland Hills , Calif. (June 3, 2008) —Silgan Containers was recognized by Hormel Foods Corporation with its Spirit of Excellence Award for the fifteenth consecutive year. Silgan is one of only two companies to have earned the honor consecutively during that period of time.

Steve Jensen, corporate purchasing manager, Hormel Foods presented the award recently at Silgan’s flagship Ft. Dodge , Iowa plant. Jensen was accompanied by Russ Potter, vice president of operations, Mike Devine, director of operations and Jim Snee, director of purchasing.

“We hold our suppliers to the highest standards and Silgan Containers consistently meets or exceeds our expectations by providing us with great packaging solutions and service. We are pleased to present them with another excellence award,” Snee says.

Silgan supplies a wide variety of metal and plastic packaging to Hormel Foods for products including SPAM®, Dinty Moore® Beef Stew, Mary Kitchen® Hash, Hormel® Chili and Stagg® Chili.

“We are honored to once again receive this award from Hormel Foods. Silgan Containers has been Hormel Foods’ supply partner for more than 80 years. We value this partnership and strive to provide both product and service excellence on a consistent basis,” says Rick Brewer , senior vice president of sales and marketing, Silgan Containers.

Criteria factored into qualifying for the Spirit of Excellence Award include: ability to meet requirements, ability to make timely deliveries, provide accurate

administrative support and maintain inventories. The awarding committee also looks for

value-added benefits, including customer support, awareness of environmental concerns and sales representative performance. A universal measurement system has been in place since 1990 to ensure every supplier is held to the same standards.

Silgan first won the award in 1993, and has continued to earn it consecutively since then. Additionally, Silgan was the recipient in 2006 of Hormel’s No. 1 Award for the third time. This is an honor that is only given every five years to suppliers meeting stringent five point requirements.

Silgan Containers, a subsidiary of Silgan Holdings, is the largest manufacturer of metal food containers in North America, with approximately half of the U.S. unit volume in 2007 and net sales of $1.68 billion. Silgan’s partnership approach, supported by quality, service, technology, low-cost producer position, strategically-located geographic locations and extensive consumer research, is the cornerstone of its strong customer relationships.

Silgan Containers manufactures and sells steel and aluminum containers and ends that are used primarily by processors and packagers for food products, such as soup, vegetables, fruit, meat, tomato based products, coffee, seafood, adult nutritional drinks, pet food and other miscellaneous food products. For more info visit: www.silgancontainers.com.

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Media Contacts: Carolyn Takata Sophia Dilberakis

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(818) 710-2420 (312) 787-5800

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Please forward sales inquiries to:

Silgan Containers Corporation

21800 Oxnard St # 600

Woodland Hills , CA 91367

Phone: (818) 348-3700

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