Sanders Named President, COO of Sonoco
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Sonoco, Hartsville, S.C.,USA, has named M. Jack Sanders president and COO officer, effective immediately. Sanders will report to Harris E. DeLoach, Jr., chairman and CEO of the company.
In his new role, Sanders will have global operating responsibility for Sonoco's businesses serving consumer markets, including Global Rigid Paper and Closures, Global Rigid Plastics, Global Flexible Packaging, and Global Services. He also will have responsibility for the company's businesses serving industrial markets, including its vertically integrated global industrial converting and paperboard operations. Combined, these businesses operate more than 300 plants in 35 countries.
A 1976 graduate of Louisiana State University with a B.S. in finance, Sanders joined Sonoco in 1987 as national sales and marketing manager, Wire and Cable Reels. In 1991, he was named GM for Sonoco's Protective Packaging division and was promoted to division VP and GM of Protective Packaging in 1998. He was elected a corporate officer and named VP, Industrial Products, North America in 2001. He was subsequently named VP, Global Industrial Products in 2005, SVP in 2006, and EVP in 2008. Prior to this promotion, Sanders served as EVP, Global Consumer, since January 2010.
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