products company . sonoco products company type public nyse son industry packaging founded 1899 founder major james lide coker headquarters hartsville south carolina united states key people m. jack sanders president and ceo revenue 4.9 billion usd number of employees 19 900 website http www.sonoco.com founded in 1899 sonoco products company nyse son is a united states based international provider of diversified consumer packaging industrial products protective packaging and packaging supply chain services and the world s largest producer of composite cans tubes and cores . with annualized net sales of approximately 4.9 billion sonoco has 19 900 employees in more than 335 operations in 33 countries serving more than 85 nations . 1 the company is headquartered in hartsville south carolina and is south carolina s largest corporation in terms of sales . 2 in fortune magazine s 2013 world s most admired companies sonoco ranked first in financial soundness in the packaging and container sector . 3 sonoco is a member of the new york stock exchange century index and the s & p 400 . contents 1 operations 2 sustainability 3 administration employees 4 references 4.1 further reading 5 external links operations edit sonoco is the world s largest producer of composite cans tubes and cores citation needed and a leading manufacturer of blow molded plastic containers consumer and industrial thermoformed plastic packaging engineered molded and extruded plastic 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 . sustainability edit 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 received sustainable 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 . 4 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. . administration employees edit major james lide coker founded the southern novelty company in 1899 which became sonoco in 1923 . charles w. coker president 1970 1990 ceo 1970 1998 and chairman 1976 2005 . harris e. deloach jr. executive chairman of the board and former ceo previous to m. jack sanders . m. jack sanders current president and chief executive officer ; elected in 2013 . references edit http finance.yahoo.com q pr s son http www.carolinalive.com news story.aspx id 722495 http money.cnn.com magazines fortune mostadmired 2011 snapshots 544.html http greenrankings.newsweek.com newsweek s 100 greenest large american companies further reading edit doubles malcolm c 2005 . a century plus a history of sonoco products company . hartsville s.c. coker college press . isbn 0970364415 . external links edit sonoco products company official site . sonoco products forbes bio . sonoco products co. son yahoo finance bio . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sonoco & oldid 743807305 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangepackaging companiespulp and paper companies of the united statesmanufacturing companies established in 1899companies based in south carolinaamerican companies established in 1899hidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 11 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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