Sonoco Products Company - SON- Profile

Sonoco Products Company. The Group's principal activities are to manufacture of industrial and consumer packaging products and to provide packaging services. It operates in four segments: Engineered carriers and paper segment design and develop high-performance paper and composite engineered carriers, fiber-based construction tubes and forms and paperboard. Consumer packaging segment produces round and shaped rigid packaging, both composite and plastic, printed flexible packaging, metal and plastic ends and closures. Packaging services segment provides products and services like point-of-purchase displays, packaging fulfillment and brand management. Other segment products includes like wooden, metal and composite reels for wire and cable packaging, custom designed protective packaging, machinery manufacturing and specialty packaging. On 27-Feb-2006, it acquired the packaging assets and business of Wycon Corporation. Tubes and Cores and Paper accounted for 42% of 2006 revenues; Consumer Packaging, 36%; Packaging Services, 12% & Other, 10%