AGM 2026

Apr 29, 2026

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Ball's Annual Meeting of Stockholders. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Mr. Ron Lewis. Please go ahead, sir. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Ball's Annual Meeting of Stockholders. My name is Ron Lewis, and I am the CEO of the company. Ball splits the roles of the Chairman and CEO, and I'm happy to introduce you to Stuart A. Taylor II, Chairman of Ball's board of directors. I'll now turn the meeting over to Mr. Taylor. Mr. Taylor, you may begin, sir. The meeting will please come to order. Before we turn to the formal business of the meeting, I'd like to recognize those in attendance today. With us we have the company's directors and officers, a representative of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the company's independent registered public accounting firm. Ms. Hannah Lim-Johnson, our Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary is serving as our inspector of election. Our agenda for this morning's meeting is as follows. First, we'll have a presentation of the corporate secretary's report, after which we will present the four proposals that are subject to a vote. We will allow a brief period for voting, and we'll close the voting. Finally, we will address relevant questions asked in the room from shareholders about items on today's agenda. Shareholders may vote. may also submit questions during the meeting on the virtual web portal. All relevant questions submitted on the portal will be answered in writing on the investors page of our website after the meeting. Company performance will be addressed on the earnings call scheduled for May fifth, details of which are on the Ball website. The question portal will close when the meeting is adjourned. I will now turn it over to Ms. Hannah Lim-Johnson, Corporate Secretary. The 2026 annual meeting of shareholders has been called by the board of directors for the purpose of voting on the 4 proposals included in our proxy statement. An affidavit has been delivered attesting that a notice of internet availability of the proxy materials was mailed on or about March 17th, 2026 to all shareholders as of the record date. The shareholder list has been made available for examination at the company's headquarters prior to the meeting. These items and the final voting results will be included in the minutes of the meeting. As of the record date, there are 266,153,058 shares of common stock outstanding that are entitled to vote at this meeting. A majority of such shares are present at the meeting in person or by proxy. Therefore, a quorum is present, and the meeting is authorized to transact business. The proposals being voted on are as follows. Proposal 1, the election of 9 directors nominees to serve for a 1-year term expiring at the annual meeting in 2027. Proposal 2, ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as the independent registered public accounting firm for the company for 2026. Proposal 3, approval by a non-binding advisory vote of the compensation of the named executive officers. Proposal 4, approval of an amendment to the amended and restated 2013 Stock and Cash Incentive Plan. We will now conduct the official business of the meeting and will provide time for voting. Shareholders that have voted by proxies or have already voted by internet or telephone and who do not wish to change their vote do not need to take any further action. Any shareholder of record as of the record date who has not yet voted or who wishes to change his or her vote may do so now on the virtual meeting web portal, which has been open for voting since the start of this meeting. We will pause for a moment to permit shareholders to vote. Now that everyone has had the opportunity to vote, the polls are now closed. Since all the votes have been cast in person or by proxy, I will call on Ms. Hannah Lim-Johnson to present the voting results for each of the four proposals. Regarding proposal 1, election of directors. Each nominee for director received a majority of the votes cast at this meeting. Accordingly, all nominees have been duly elected. Regarding proposal 2, ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as the independent registered public accounting firm for the company for 2026. The proposal passed and received a majority of the votes cast. Regarding proposal 3, to approve on an advisory basis the compensation of the company's named executive officers. The proposal passed and received a majority of the votes cast. Regarding proposal 4, to approve an amendment to the amended and restated 2013 Stock and Cash Incentive Plan. The proposal passed and received a majority of the votes cast. Thank you, Hannah. Since there are no other matters before the annual meeting, we have completed the formal business. Before we conclude this meeting, we can respond to any shareholder questions in the room. Any relevant questions that we have received through online platform will be answered in writing on the investor's page of our website after the meeting. Are there any questions in the room? Hearing none, I hereby declare this annual meeting of shareholders adjourned. Thank you for attending. This now concludes the meeting. Thank you for joining, and have a pleasant day.