Sonoco

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. The company is headquartered in Hartsville, South Carolina, and is South Carolina's largest corporation in terms of sales.

In Fortune Magazine's 2013 World's Most Admired Companies, Sonoco ranked first in financial soundness in the packaging and container sector. Sonoco is a member of the New York Stock Exchange Century Index and the S&P 400.

Operations

Sonoco is the world's largest producer of composite cans, tubes, and cores, 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.