Silgan Holdings Increases Dividend by 9.1% and Declares Quarterly Dividend

Silgan Holdings Inc.

, a leading supplier of rigid packaging for consumer goods products, announced today that based on its continued strong financial performance and business prospects its Board of Directors declared a $0.12 per share quarterly cash dividend, payable on March 26, 2012 to the holders of record of the common stock of the Company on March 12, 2012. This represents a 9.1% increase in the Company's quarterly cash dividend, which the Company has increased every year since it began paying cash dividends in 2004