Sonoco Awarded New Pack Center Business in U.S., Mexico, Poland
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Sonoco (Hartsville, S.C., USA) Chairman, President, and CEO Harris DeLoach Jr. and Charles J. Hupfer, senior VP and CFO, told the New York investment community last week that the company would be expanding its Global Packaging Services business in the U.S., Mexico, and Poland in 2010. DeLoach explained that in the third quarter of 2009, Sonoco took over operation of a distribution center for General Mills in Pennsylvania, and by the second quarter of 2010 the company will be opening a new 1.5 million ft2 distribution center in Walton County, Ga. "At this new dedicated center, we will be handling a number of services for General Mills' family of food products for shipments throughout the Southeast, and for the first time we'll be performing food filling services," he said.
DeLoach also announced that Sonoco has entered into an agreement to provide packaging services for the LEGO Group at a new pack center that is scheduled to open in early 2010 in Monterrey, Mexico. Sonoco currently provides packaging services for LEGO in Poland, for various retail products, new product launches, and the company's consumer on-line brick ordering service. In addition, Sonoco will be handling pack center work in Poland for Henkel Adhesive consumer products.
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