Hillenbrand Announces First-Quarter Earnings Release Date and Conference Call

Hillenbrand, Inc. will announce its first-quarter earnings results before the market opens Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. 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 first quarter of 2010, which ended Dec. 31, 2009. The webcast will be available at https://ir.hillenbrandinc.com/ and will be archived on the company's Web site through Feb. 4, 2011, for those unable to listen to the live webcast.

To access the conference call, listeners in the United States may dial 1-877-856-1961, and international callers may dial 1-719-325-4799. A replay of the call will be available until midnight ET, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010, by dialing 1-888-203-1112 in the United States or 1-719-457-0820 internationally, and using the confirmation code 6311654.

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

First Call Analyst:
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SOURCE: Hillenbrand, Inc.

CONTACT: Mark R. Lanning, Vice President, Investor Relations, and
Treasurer of Hillenbrand, Inc., +1-812-934-7256, [email protected]

Web Site: https://www.hillenbrandinc.com/