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Colyer Named Vice President, Global Industrial Converting
HARTSVILLE, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2009--
Sonoco (NYSE: SON), one of the largest diversified global packaging
companies, today announced that M. Jack Sanders has been named executive
vice president, Consumer, effective January 1, 2010, according to Harris
E. DeLoach, Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer.
Sanders, 56, will succeed Charles Sullivan, 66, who is retiring
effective March 31, 2010.
“Jack has demonstrated strong operations leadership during his 22-year
career with Sonoco and will be tasked with continuing to grow our global
consumer packaging and services businesses,” said DeLoach. “I want to
personally thank Charles for all he has done over the past decade in
building Sonoco’s consumer business into the industry’s only total
solutions packaging and services provider. During his tenure, Sonoco’s
consumer-related sales and operating profits have nearly doubled and now
represent approximately 58 percent of the Company’s total business.”
In this new management assignment, Sanders will have global operating
responsibility for all of Sonoco’s businesses serving consumer markets,
including Global Rigid Paper and Closures, Global Rigid Plastics, Global
Flexible Packaging and Global Packaging Services. Prior to this
appointment, he was executive vice president, Industrial, responsible
for the Company’s vertically integrated global industrial converting and
paper operations.
A 1976 graduate of Louisiana State University with a BS degree in
finance, Sanders joined Sonoco in 1987 as national sales and marketing
manager, Wire and Cable Reels. In 1991, he was named general manager for
Sonoco’s Protective Packaging division and was promoted to division vice
president and general manager of Protective Packaging in 1998. Sanders
was elected a corporate officer and named vice president, Industrial
Products, North America in 2001. He was subsequently named vice
president, Global Industrial Products in 2005, senior vice president in
2006 and executive vice president in 2008.
Sullivan joined Sonoco in 2000 after 19 years of service with Cargill,
an international marketer and processor of agricultural, financial and
industrial products, including positions as regional director of Cargill
Asia/Pacific and as president of Cargill’s Salt Division. A native of
Hartsville, S.C., Sullivan serves on the board of directors of the
Clemson University Foundation and recently completed serving as chairman
of the Coker College Board of Trustees. He is a past chairman of the
Associate Member Council of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA)
and was on the President’s Advisory Council of the GMA. He previously
served as chairman of the Salt Institute and as a member of its CEO
Council and is active in a number of community organizations.
Effective with this change, DeLoach also announced that all of the
Company’s global industrial businesses will report directly to him. In
addition, John Colyer has been named vice president, Global Industrial
Converting, reporting to DeLoach. In this new position, Colyer, 48, will
have responsibility for the Company’s global tubes and cores, protective
packaging, wire and cable reels and paperboard specialties.
Colyer joined Sonoco in 1983 and has held numerous business leadership
and manufacturing positions at Sonoco in businesses serving industrial
and consumer markets. Prior to this appointment, he was vice president,
North America Converting. He also served as vice president, Industrial
Products division (IPD), North America, and served as division vice
president and general manager, IPD, North America since 2006. In 2004,
he became division vice president of manufacturing, IPD, North America.
He is a graduate of Southern Oregon State University with a BS degree in
business administration.
About Sonoco
Founded in 1899, Sonoco is a $4.1 billion global manufacturer of
industrial and consumer products and provider of packaging services,
with more than 300 operations in 35 countries, serving customers in some
85 nations. Sonoco is a proud member of the Dow Jones Sustainability
World Index. For more information on the Company, visit our Web site at http://www.sonoco.com/.
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Roger Schrum, 843-339-6018
roger.schrum@sonoco.com