Huntington Ingalls Industries to Hold Annual Shareholders' Meeting


ADVISORY, April 24, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What: Huntington Ingalls Industries' Annual Shareholders' Meeting
   
When: 2 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, May 1, 2013
   
Where:  The Grand Magnolia Ballroom & Suites
  3604 Magnolia St.
  Pascagoula, MS 39567
   
RSVP: Beci Brenton, Huntington Ingalls Industries,
  (202) 264-7143 or Beci.Brenton@hii-co.com 

Please RSVP by noon on Tuesday, Apr. 30. Media are asked to meet Beci Brenton outside in the front of the Grand Magnolia no later than 2 p.m. The itinerary will be as follows:

2:00-2:30 HII Business Meeting (open to HII shareholders only)
   
2:30-2:45 Remarks from HII President and CEO Mike Petters (open to media) 
   
2:45-3:15 Shareholders' question-and-answer period (media are asked to hold all questions for the media availability)
   
3:30 Media availability with Mike Petters and Tom Fargo, HII chairman of the board of directors. This will occur upon the adjournment of the meeting and may be earlier than 3:30.

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) designs, builds and maintains nuclear and non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and provides after-market services for military ships around the globe. For more than a century, HII has built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder at its Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding divisions. Employing about 37,000 in Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and California, HII also provides a wide variety of products and services to the commercial energy industry and other government customers, including the Department of Energy.