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Sonoco Products Co. (SON)On Nov 27: 27.84  Down 0.37 (1.31%)  
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Sonoco Products Co.
1 North Second Street
Hartsville, SC 29550
United States - Map
Phone: 843-383-7000
Fax: 843-383-7008
Web Site: http://www.sonoco.com

DETAILS 
Index Membership:S&P 400 MidCap
S&P 1500 Super Comp
Sector:Consumer Goods
Industry:Paper & Paper Products
Full Time Employees:17,500

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
Sonoco Products Company provides industrial and consumer packaging products, and packaging services primarily in the United States, Europe, and Canada. It manufactures rigid paper and plastic packaging products, including composite paperboard cans, paperboard pails, single-wrap paperboard packages, fiber cartridges, bottles, jars, tubs, cups, trays, and squeeze tubes; aluminum and steel closures for composite, metal, and plastic containers; and printed flexible packaging products. The company also provides tubes and cores comprising paperboard tubes, cores, roll packaging, molded plugs, pallet components, concrete forms, void forms, and rotary die boards; and paper products consisting of recycled paperboard, chipboard, tubeboard, lightweight corestock, boxboard, linerboard, specialty grades, and recovered paper. Sonoco’s packaging services comprise packaging supply chain management services, including custom packing, fulfillment, primary package filling, scalable service centers, and brand artwork management; and designing, manufacturing, assembling, packing, and distributing temporary, semi permanent and permanent point-of-purchase displays, as well as contract packaging and co-packing services. In addition, the company produces wire and cable reels, including steel, nailed wooden, plywood, recycled, and poly-fiber reels; molded and extruded plastics; paperboard products consisting of glass covers, coasters, and other paper amenities; and protective packaging products. It serves food and non food, automotive, beverage, confectionery, electronic, cosmetic, fragrance, healthcare, home and garden, liquor, medical, office supply, over-the-counter drug, personal care, sporting goods, tobacco, wire and cable, household appliances, leisure, textile, and other consumer and industrial packaging markets. The company was formerly known as the Southern Novelty Company. Sonoco Products Company was founded in 1899 and is based in Hartsville, South Carolina.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    Sonoco Products Co.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 6-Nov-09 is better than 80.1% of S&P 400 companies and 91.4% of Materials companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. Harris E. DeLoach Jr., 64
    Exec. Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer, Pres and Member of Exec. Committee
    $ 1.58M $ 0
    Mr. Charles J. Hupfer , 62
    Chief Financial Officer and Sr. VP
    $ 593.00K $ 0
    Mr. Jim C. Bowen , 58
    Sr. VP of Recycling & Internal Supply
    $ 558.00K $ 0
    Mr. Charles L. Sullivan Jr., 65
    Exec. VP of Global Consumer Packaging & Services Group
    $ 726.00K $ 0
    Mr. M. Jack Sanders , 55
    Head of Global Industrial Converting Bus.es and Exec. VP of Industrial
    $ 709.00K $ 0
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-08 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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