Sonoco Products (NYSE:SON) (NYSE:SON) is a global packaging company headquartered in Hartsville, South Carolina. Founded in 1899 as the Southern Novelty Company, Sonoco has developed into a diversified provider of packaging products and services for consumer and industrial markets.
The company produces consumer packaging such as rigid paper and plastic containers, metal cans, flexible packaging, thermoformed packaging, closures, and packaging displays. Its industrial packaging activities include paper tubes and cores, protective packaging, molded foam products, pallets, and other materials used to protect, store, and transport goods. Sonoco also provides packaging design, supply-chain, and other related services for manufacturers and consumer-product companies.
Sonoco serves customers across a broad range of industries, including food and beverage, household and personal care, healthcare, construction, and industrial products. Through manufacturing and operations in North America and international markets, the company supplies packaging solutions to customers in geographies around the world.
