EXHIBIT 32.1


      In connection with the Annual Report of BPC Holding Corporation and Berry
Plastics Corporation (the "Registrants") on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 27, 2003, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the
date hereof (the "Report"), I, Ira G. Boots, the President and Chief Executive
Officer of the Registrants, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as
adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

(1) The Report containing the financial statements fully complies with the
requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended; and

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material
respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Registrants.


/s/ Ira G. Boots
______________________
Ira G. Boots
President and Chief Executive Officer

Date: March 18, 2004