Hillenbrand Schedules Second-Quarter 2011 Earnings Call for May 5

BATESVILLE, Ind., April 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Hillenbrand, Inc. (NYSE: HI) will host a conference call and simultaneous webcast with investors and financial analysts Thursday, May 5, at 8 a.m. ET to discuss the results for the second quarter of fiscal 2011, which ended March 31, 2011. The webcast will be available at http://ir.hillenbrandinc.com and will be archived on the company's Web site through May 5, 2012, for those unable to listen to the live webcast.

To access the conference call, listeners in the United States and Canada may dial 1-877-548-7914, and international callers may dial 1-719-325-4901. A replay of the call will be available until midnight ET, Thursday, May 19, 2011, by dialing 1-888-203-1112 in the United States and Canada or 1-719-457-0820 internationally, and using the replay passcode 3660640.

Hillenbrand will issue a press release reporting its results after market close Wednesday, May 4. The full text of the release and financials also will be available on the company's website at www.HillenbrandInc.com.

ABOUT HILLENBRAND, INC.

Hillenbrand, Inc. (www.HillenbrandInc.com) is a diversified enterprise with multiple subsidiaries focused around two separate operating businesses. Batesville Casket (www.batesville.com) is 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. K-Tron International (www.ktroninternational.com) is a recognized leader in the design, production, marketing and servicing of material handling equipment and systems. The company serves many different industrial markets through two product lines. The Process Group focuses primarily on feeding and pneumatic conveying equipment, doing business under two main brands: K-Tron Feeders and K-Tron Premier. The Size Reduction Group concentrates on size reduction equipment, conveying systems and screening equipment, operating under three brands: Pennsylvania Crusher, Gundlach and Jeffrey Rader.  HI-INC-F

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