Yorker Closures Changes Name to Yorker Packaging

Greenville, S.C.—Yorker Closures, the specialty packaging provider for consumer, industrial, and medical markets, announced today that it has changed its name to Yorker Packaging. Yorker Packaging is the packaging business unit of Jarden Plastic Solutions, a division of Jarden Corporation (NYSE: JAH).

Yorker Packaging’s new name reflects the company's total solutions approach to specialty packaging and reinforces its commitment to continued packaging innovation and growth.

”We have selected our new name to emphasize the breadth of our product offerings and toand to encompass our total product design, prototyping, production, and distribution capabilities,“ said Jim Smeaton, product manager for Yorker Packaging. “With design capabilities provided by our sister division, Jarden Design Associates, Yorker has the capability to provide our customers with much more than they might imagine. We can custom engineer a total solution for them for any packaging challenge—from closures to containers, thermoforming to custom designs—or provide them with an off-the-shelf item to fit their needs.”

Effective January 2005, the new name and logo will appear as shown below and will identify the company’s extensive product portfolio in household and industrial chemical, personal care, health and beauty aids, food containment/packaging, lawn and garden, and medical markets.

For more information, call 1-888-291-5757; or fax us at 864-877-4976 or 879-2739; or log onto www.yorkerpackaging.com.