Awards and Accolades

2011

  • Named one of the 25 Top Companies for Leaders in North America by Aon Hewitt, The RBL Group and "Fortune" for a fourth consecutive time 
  • Named a Platinum Fit-Friendly Company by the American Heart Association
  • Rated as the top packaging company and the top company in the Materials Sector in Newsweek's 2011 Green Rankings, and listed in the top 40% of the United States’ 500 largest publicly traded companies for a third consecutive year
  • Included in the 2011-2012 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for a third consecutive year
  • Listed at 519 on the 2011 Fortune 1000 List
  • Named 2010-2011 Philanthropist of the Year by The Pee Dee Chapter of the American Red Cross for the Company's 2010-2011 donations to provide relief in Darlington County, S.C., Haiti, Japan, New Zealand and Alabama
  • Ranked as number 14 in Flexible Packaging's seventh annual Top 25 Converters listing
  • Listed at number 12 in its Southeastern Corporate Sustainability Rankings by Green Business WORKS
  • Awarded Gold Class status for 2011 by SAM (Sustainability Asset Management) in its Sustainability Yearbook 2011
  • Named one of 2011’s Top 100 Corporate Citizens by Corporate Responsibility magazine
  • Received Monarch Butterfly program certification from the Mexican Paper Chamber for production of paperboard, tubes and cores from 100 percent recycled fiber at ICD plants and paper mills in Mexico
  • Sonoco’s point-of-purchase display business was one of just five vendors named a TharpeRobbins Award of Excellence winner two consecutive years

2010

  • Included in the 2010-2011 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for a second consecutive year
  • Listed in the top 25% of the United States’ 500 largest publicly traded companies in Newsweek magazine’s “Green Rankings” for a second consecutive year in 2010
  • Named the Top Investor Relations Company in the Paper and Packaging Sector by Investor Relations magazine in its All America 2011 Executive Team Rankings
  • Named one of 2010’s Top 10 Most Trustworthy Public Companies and the most trustworthy company in the Industrial Products sector by Trust Across America™ (TAA). TAA also named Sonoco Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Harris DeLoach one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior in 2010.
  • Received two 2010 Design of the Times Silver Awards for point-of-purchase displays for a distinctively shaped floor stand designed and produced for Cadbury Adams USA’s launch of Dentyne Pure™ gum and a colorful PDQ counter display for the launch of Cadbury Adams’ Stride® Shift™ gum
  • Named a Gold Level Fit Friendly Company for the second time in two years by the American Heart Association for championing the health of its employees at work and working to create a culture of physical activity in the workplace
  • Sonoco’s Strykow, Poland, service center was named central Poland’s safest workplace by Poland’s National Labour Inspectorate
  • Sonoco Chairman and CEO Harris DeLoach was inducted into the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame in 2010 
  • Listed as number 13 on Flexible Packaging magazine’s 2010 Top 25 Converters List.
  • One of only 36 companies to receive Abbott’s prestigious Supplier Excellence Award for outstanding performance in supplying quality materials, equipment and services in 2009
  • Recognized with a Gold Award in Printing Achievement from the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) for the 5.2-oz. Stabilo flexible bag the Company’s Global Flexibles business designed and produced for Werther’s® Original Caramel Chocolate candies. Also received a Silver Printing Achievement Award for its Halls® Nite cough drop flexible bag. 
  • Received a U.S. Print Quality Award in the Cartons/Paperboard/Top Coated category from the Packaging and Label Gravure Association Global for its vibrant, four-color Marlboro Blend No. 54 100s cigarette package. 
  • Food and Beverage magazine named Sonoco’s Linearpak® rigid paperboard container for Target’s Archer Farms® cereal a category buster.
  • Named the “SAM Sector Mover” in the Container and Packaging Sector for achieving the largest year-over-year sustainability performance improvement of the companies in the sector’s top 15%. Also awarded the SAM Bronze Class status for attaining a total score within 5% ofthe SAM Sector Leader.

2009

  • Included in the 2009-2010 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index
  • Listed in the top 25% of the United States' 500 largest publicly traded companies in Newseek magazine's 2009 "Green Rankings"
  • Named one of 2009's Top 100 Corporate Citizens by Corporate Responsibility magazine
  • Fortune magazine named Sonoco one of the top five Most Admired companies in the packaging industry.
  • Recognized for a third consecutive time as one of North America’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders 
  • DiversityPlus magazine recognized Sonoco’s Director of Supplier Diversity, Marc Ensign, as one of its 2009 Champions of Diversity. Sonoco, Ensign and his team were honored for quadrupling the Company’s diversity spend in the last five years.
  • Service award supplier Tharpe Robbins presented employees at Sonoco’s Statesville, N.C., point-of-purchase facility with a 2009 Award of Excellence for Outstanding Partnership. Only 10 of Tharpe Robbin’s 900 suppliers receive the award each year.

 

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