Sonoco CorrFlex's Rural Hall Plant Achieves 95 Percent Landfill Diversion
The Company's Rural Hall, N.C., facility recognized with a silver-tier Sonoco Sustainability Star Award Read More
Sustainability is smart business
Sonoco has a strong record in the area of corporate sustainability, reflecting the company's recognition that sustainability is an important issue to our customers, shareholders, and employees.
Sonoco Targets a Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Harris E. DeLoach, Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer, announced a voluntary reduction in greenhouse gas emission of 15 percent from the Company's global manufacturing plants by 2014.
"I am pleased to report that our efforts in 2009 led to an approximate 13 percent reduction," DeLoach said. "We have put in place a global Web-based environmental management system which collects GHG emissions from all of our international manufacturing facilities. We have taken this data, established 2008 as our baseline year, and set a goal of reducing GHG emission from our more than 300 manufacturing facilities by 15 percent by 2014."
CEO Harris DeLoach speaks at Summit
Sonoco's Chairman and CEO, Harris DeLoach, recently spoke at the Food Packaging Technologies Summit, hosted by Packaging Strategies, about the new consumer market and the future of food packaging in an era of change and growth.
Sonoco Hosts First Quarter 2012 Investor Conference Call
Sonoco hosted its regular quarterly investor conference call on Thursday, April 19, to review its financial results for the first quarter of 2012. The Company also issued a news release reporting its first quarter 2012 financial results. Learn more.
Read the First Quarter 2012 Results release.
View the presentation for the conference call.
Sonoco's Annual Shareholders Meeting and 2011 Annual Report
Sonoco's 2011 Annual Report to Shareholders, entitled, "One Company: Infinite Packaging Solutions," is now available in the "Investor Relations" section. Sonoco's Annual Shareholders meeting was held on Wednesday, April 18. Replay of the webcast and presentation are available below.
Listen to a replay of the Annual Shareholders Meeting webcast.
Sonoco Receives Outstanding Marketing at Retail Achievement (OMA) Awards
Sonoco's retail point-of-purchase display and packaging services business won four OMA awards at the Point of Purchase Advertising International (POPAI) 54th annual competition.
Read the release.
Sonoco Included in FORTUNE Magazine's List of World's Most Admired Companies
Sonoco was ranked fourth in the Packaging, Containers segment of FORTUNE's list of the World's Most Admired Companies, up from sixth last year. The Company was reviewed on nine key attributes, including people management, use of corporate assets, social responsibility, quality of management and financial soundness.
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