| Type | Public (NYSE) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Packaging |
| Founded | 1899 |
| Founder(s) | Major James Lide Coker |
| Headquarters | Hartsville, South Carolina, United States |
| Key people | Harris E. DeLoach, Jr. chairman and chief executive officer M. Jack Sanders president and chief operating officer |
| Revenue | $4.1 billion (USD) |
| Employees | 17,300 |
| Website | http://www.sonoco.com/ |
Founded in 1899, Sonoco Products Company (NYSE: SON) is a global provider of a variety of consumer packaging, industrial products, protective packaging and packaging supply chain services. With estimated sales of approximately $5 billion, the Company has more than 19,000 employees working in 340 operations in 34 countries, serving some of the world's best known brands in some 85 nations. Sonoco is the world's largest producer of composite cans, tubes and cores and a leader in rigid paperboard containers and convenience closures. The Company is also a leading manufacturer of blow-molded plastic containers, consumer and industrial thermoformed plastic packaging, engineered molded and extruded plastic products. Sonoco was named one of 2011's Top 100 Corporate Citizens by Corporate Responsibility Magazine, has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index 2009 – 2010, 2010 – 2011 and 2011 – 2012, and was listed in the United States' 500 largest publicly traded companies in Newsweek magazine's "Green Rankings" for three consecutive years. Sonoco also received a SAM (Sustainable Asset Management) Gold Class Award in SAM's Sustainability Yearbook 2011 and has been recognized four times as one of North America's Top Companies for Leaders.
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