Sonoco Names Sanders Executive VP, Consumer

Sonoco, Hartsville, S.C., USA, has named M. Jack Sanders executive VP, Consumer, effective January 1. Sanders will succeed Charles Sullivan, who is retiring effective March 31. 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 VP, Industrial, responsible for the company's vertically integrated global industrial converting and paper operations. He joined Sonoco in 1987 as national sales and marketing manager, Wire and Cable Reels. In 1991, he was named GM for the company's Protective Packaging division and was promoted to division VP and GM of Protective Packaging in 1998. Sanders was elected a corporate officer and named VP, Industrial Products, North America in 2001. He was subsequently named VP, Global Industrial Products in 2005, senior VP in 2006 and executive VP in 2008.

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