EXHIBIT 10.5

                               AMENDMENT TO THE
                             ALLTRISTA CORPORATION
                      EXCESS SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN

     This Amendment is made to the Alltrista Corporation Excess Savings and
Retirement Plan, which was effective as of May 1, 1997 (the " Excess Savings and
Retirement Plan "). This Amendment shall be effective as of June 21, 2001.
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed
to them in the ESRP.

     The Excess Savings and Retirement Plan is hereby amended as follows:

     1.   Subsection (b) of the definition of "Change in Control" set forth in
     Section 7.7 of the Excess Savings and Retirement Plan is amended by
     replacing in its entirety the parenthetical that begins in the third line
     of such Subsection (b) with the following new parenthetical:

     "(other than a director whose initial assumption of office in connection
     with an actual or threatened election contest, including but not limited to
     a consent solicitation, relating to the election of directors of the
     Company, including but not limited to Messrs. Martin E. Franklin and Ian
     G.H. Ashken)"

     2.   Except as herein modified, the Excess Savings and Retirement Plan
     shall remain in full force and effect.