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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| NYSE: SON S&P 400 Component | |
| Industry | Packaging |
| Founded | 1899 |
| Founder | MajorJames Lide Coker |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Howard Coker(CEO) |
| Revenue |  US$5.237 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)[1] |
| US$255.592 Million (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)[1] | |
| US$207.241 Million (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)[1] | |
| Total assets |  US$5.277 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)[1] |
| Total equity | US$1.910 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)[1] |
Number of employees | 21,000[2] (2017) |
| Website | www |
Sonoco Products Company is an American provider of diversified consumerpackaging, industrial products, protective packaging, and packagingsupply chain services and the world's largest producer ofcomposite cans, tubes, and cores. The company was founded in 1889 asSouthernNoveltyCompany with annualized net sales of approximately $7.3 billion. Sonoco has 19,900 employees in more than 335 operations in 33 countries, serving more than 85 nations.[3] The company is headquartered inHartsville, South Carolina, and is South Carolina's largest corporation in terms of sales.[4]
Sonoco is a member of the New York Stock Exchange Century Index and theS&P 400.
Sonoco is the world's largest producer of tubes, cores, and fiber concrete columns under the brand name Sonotube concrete forms[5] and a leading manufacturer ofblow-molded plastic containers, consumer and industrialthermoformed plastic packaging, engineeredmolded andextrudedplastic products, rigid paperboard containers, and convenience closures.
Sonoco's operations consist of its consumer packaging businesses, including Global Rigid Paper and Closures, Global Flexibles, and Global Plastics; its Global Services division, which provides high-impact retail displays and packaging supply chain management; its Industrial Converted Products businesses, which manufacture tubes and cores and reels for the wire and cable industry, produces uncoated recycled paperboard globally for Sonoco's fiber-based packaging divisions and external converters, and includes Sonoco Recycling, one of the world's largest recyclers; and its Protective Packaging division, which produces highly engineered, custom-designed protective, temperature-assurance, and retail security packaging.
In September 2023, it was announced Sonoco has completed the acquisition of theUS packaging company RTS Packaging from itsholding company,WestRock for $330 million.[6]
In December 2024, it was announced that Sonoco entered an agreement to sell its Thermoformed Flexible Packaging business (TFP) to TOPPAN Holdings, for approximately USD 1.8 billion.[7]
Sonoco was named the top global packaging company for sustainability and corporate responsibility in the 2011 and 2012 the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. The firm also receivedSustainable Asset Management (SAM) Gold Class Awards in SAM's Sustainability Yearbook in 2011, 2012, and 2013, was named one of the Top 100 Corporate Citizens by Corporate Responsibility Magazine in 2011 and 2012, and has been listed among the United States's 500 largest publicly traded companies in Newsweek magazine's "Green Rankings" for three consecutive years.[citation needed]
Sonoco Recycling annually collects approximately 3 million tons of old corrugated containers, various grades of paper, metals and plastics. The company also provides recycling programs for many large consumer product companies in the U.S. .
