| Sonoco Products Company (Sonoco) is a manufacturer of industrial and consumer packaging products and a provider of packaging services. The Company operates in four segments: Consumer Packaging, Tubes and Cores/Paper, Packaging Services, and All Other Sonoco. During the year ended December 31, 2010, the Company acquired Associated Packaging Technologies, Inc. (APT), a supplier of thermoformed containers to the frozen food industry, and Madem Reels USA, Inc., a manufacturer of nailed wood and plywood reels for the wire and cable industry, a small tube and core business in Canada and a small tube and core business in Greece. In November 2011, it acquired American Recycling Of South Carolina, LLC. In November 2011, it acquired Tegrant Corporation. |
