Sonoco Products Co.

Sonoco Products Co. engages in the manufacture of industrial and consumer packaging products and services. It operates through the following segments: Consumer Packaging, Display and Packaging, Paper and Industrial Converted Products, Protective Solutions, and Corporate. The Consumer Packaging segment offers round and shaped rigid containers and trays; extruded and injection-molded plastic products; printed flexible packaging; global brand artwork management; and metal and peelable membrane ends and closures. The Display and Packaging segment consists designing, manufacturing, assembling, packing, and distributing temporary, semi-permanent, and permanent point-of-purchase displays; supply chain management services; retail packaging; and paper amenities. The Paper and Industrial Converted Products segment comprises paperboard tubes, cones, and cores; fiber-based construction tubes; wooden, metal, and composite wire and cable reels and spools; and recycled paperboard, linerboard, corrugating medium, recovered paper, and material recycling services. The Protective Solutions segment provides custom-engineered, paperboard-based and expanded foam protective packaging and components; temperature-assured packaging. The Corporates segment covers restructuring charges, asset impairment charges, gains from the disposition of businesses, insurance settlement gains, acquisition-related costs, non-operating pension costs, interest expense, and interest income. The company was founded on May 10, 1899 and is headquartered at Hartsville, SC.