Hillenbrand, Inc. Announces First-Quarter Earnings Release Date and Conference Call

BATESVILLE, Ind., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hillenbrand, Inc. (NYSE: HI) will announce its first-quarter earnings results before the market opens Thursday, Feb. 5, 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 that day at 8 a.m. ET. The webcast is available through the Investor Relations section of the company's Web site at http://ir.hillenbrandinc.com . To access the conference call, listeners in the United States may dial 1-877-857-6144, and international callers may dial 1- 719-325-4797. A replay of the call will be available until midnight ET, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009, by dialing 1-888-203-1112 in the United States or 1- 719-457-0820 internationally, and using the confirmation code 7415505.

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

SOURCE Hillenbrand, Inc.

Released January 22, 2009