Sonoco Products

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Sonoco Products Company
Type Public (NYSE)
Founded 1899
Founder Major James Lide Coker
Headquarters Hartsville, South Carolina, United States
Key people Harris E. DeLoach, Jr.
chairman, president and chief executive officer
Industry Packaging
Revenue $3.7 billion (USD)
Employees 17,600
Website http://www.sonoco.com/

Sonoco Products Company (NYSE: SON) is a major producer of different types of commercial and consumer product packaging. The company is based in Hartsville, South Carolina, U.S.A. It is also the United States' third largest paper producer. It was formerly known as Southern Novelty Company.

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[edit] Notable employees

  • Major James Lide Coker, founded Carolina Fiber Company in 1890 which became Sonoco in 1899
  • James Lide Coker Jr., president from 1900 until 1918
  • Charles Westfield Coker, president from 1918 until his death in the fall of 1931
  • James Lide Coker III, president from 1932 to 1950
  • Charles Westfield Coker, Jr., president from 1950 until 1970
  • Charles W. Coker, president and CEO from 1970 until 1998, chairman from 1998 to 2002
  • Harris E. DeLoach, Jr., current chairman, president and chief executive officer

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[edit] Campus

Sonoco has a beautiful campus with a cafeteria on site for hourly and salary workers. A main feature is the Centennial Statue that occupies the center of the parking circle at the main entrance. The statue depicts workers that represent the different divisions of the company. The base of this statue slowly rotates so that a different figure is presented on any given day or hour.

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The company has approximately 17,700 employees in over 35 different countries.

[edit] Benefits

Sonoco uses Blue Cross Blue Shield and has one of the better employee healthcare plans in the region. Sonoco offers several different plans with reasonable rates. The only downside to the Sonoco healthcare plan is their decision to use mail order only for maintenance medication which puts a strain on lower income families due to the minimum three month prescription requirement. This decision has also had an impact on the community with several independent pharmacies closing as a result.

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