Berry Plastics Receives Consents From Holders of a Majority of the Aggregate Outstanding 12 1/2% Senior Secured Notes Due 2006, 12 1/4% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2004, 12 1/4% Series B Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2004, and 11% Senior Subordinated No

Business Wire, June 24, 2002

Berry Plastics Corporation is a leading manufacturer and marketer of injection-molded and thermoformed plastic open-top containers, aerosol overcaps, closures, drink cups, and housewares. The company is headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, and, together with its subsidiaries, has plants in Henderson, Nevada; Iowa Falls, Iowa; Charlotte, North Carolina; Lawrence, Kansas; Suffolk, Virginia; Monroeville, Ohio; Woodstock, Illinois; Streetsboro, Ohio; Baltimore, Maryland; Fort Worth, Texas; Norwich, England; Milan, Italy and a sales office in Mexico City, Mexico.

Certain statements and information included in this release constitute "forward looking statements" within the meaning of the Federal Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of Berry Plastics to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied in such forward looking statements. Additional discussion of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from management's projections, forecasts, estimates and expectations is contained in the companies' SEC filings. The companies do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, or to make any other forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.