Hillenbrand Announces Third-Quarter Earnings Release Date and Conference Call

BATESVILLE, Ind., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hillenbrand, Inc. (NYSE: HI) will announce its third-quarter earnings results before the market opens Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009. The full text of the release and financials will be available on the company's Web site at www.HillenbrandInc.com.

The company will hold a conference call and simultaneous webcast with investors and financial analysts the same day at 8 a.m. ET. During the event, management will discuss the results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2009, which ended June 30. The webcast is available through the Investor Relations section of the company's Web site at http://ir.hillenbrandinc.com and will be archived on the company's Web site through Aug. 11, 2010, for those unable to listen to the live webcast.

Participants may listen to the conference call by dialing 1-877-719-9795 (1-719-325-4783 for international callers). A replay of the call will be available through midnight Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009, at 1-888-203-1112 (1-719-457-0820 for international callers). Please use the confirmation code 6524514.

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ABOUT HILLENBRAND, INC.

Hillenbrand, Inc. (www.HillenbrandInc.com) is the holding company for Batesville Casket Company, a leader in the North American death care industry through the sale of funeral services products, including burial caskets, cremation caskets, containers and urns, selection room display fixturing and other personalization and memorialization products. HI-INC-F

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Released July 29, 2009