CRA April 10, 2013. Who is Sonoco? 2 3 Southern Novelty Company Founded May 10, 1899 Hartsville, SC Southern Novelty Company SONOCO.

CRAApril 10, 2013

2

Who is Sonoco?

3

Who is Sonoco?

•Southern Novelty Company•Founded May 10, 1899

•Hartsville, SC

•Southern Novelty Company SONOCO

Sonoco is Global Packaging

Countries with Sonoco operations

5

Sonoco is the Industry’s Only Total Solutions Provider

• Custom design• Packaging

Development Center• Brand artwork

management

• Rigid paper containers• Ends and closures• Flexible packaging• Rigid plastic

containers

• Point-of-purchase displays

• Fulfillment services

• Custom packing• Scalable service

centers

• True Blue

• Sonoco Recycling

6

History of Sonoco Recycling

•Sonoco•1899 – Use of Recovered Fiber

•1920’s – Collection of Recovered Fiber

•Sonoco Recycling•Mid Seventies

• Paper Stock Dealers Acquisition

• Expanded by 8 Facilities

• Mid Eighties• Expanded by 4 Facilities

• Focused on Recovery for Paper Mills

7

History of Sonoco Recycling

•Sonoco Recycling - 1990’s•1995 – First Municipal Single Stream Contract

•First MRF in Columbia, SC

•Sonoco Recycling – 2000 to today•Addition and Expansion of MRF’s

• Raleigh, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Greenville

• Sustainability Focus• S3 – Sonoco Sustainability Solutions

• Focused on Recovery for Paper Mills

8

Sonoco’s use of Recovered Materials

• Composite Cans (Chip/Dough Can containers)• Construction SONOTUBES• Film, tape, and label Cores• Point of Purchase Displays• Recycled Liner Board• Uncoated Box Board

9

Expanding Sonoco’s Business Model

•Global Expansion

•Non-Fiber• Vertical Integration

•Services•Community Outreach/Education

•Logistics

•S3 Process

• Sustainable Packaging Design

10

Sonoco: Total Solutions Provider From Conception to Collection

Sonoco Recycling helps customers create and implement sustainable business solutions:

• Identify cost avoidance opportunities through reducing and diverting materials currently going to landfills

• Convert waste streams to revenue streams by finding alternative uses for the materials

• Provide summary reporting of both productivity improvements and sustainability statistics

• Assurance of safe destruction of branded material

Packaging Design, Innovation& Artwork Management

Complete Consumer Packaging

Retail Merchandising

Packaging Supply Chain Services

Recycling

Sonoco Sustainability Star Awards

11

•Recognition for efforts in landfill

•Gold – achieve 99% landfill diversion

•Silver – achieve 95% landfill diversion

•Bronze –significant waste reduction achievements

•Gold level award recipients to date include:

•Boeing, North Charleston, SC

•Kraft Foods, Philadelphia, PA, LeHigh Valley, PA, Suffolk, VA

•P&G, Auburn, ME

•Unilever, Suffolk, VA

•Fruit of the Loom, Summerville, SC

•Cascades Sonoco, Birmingham, AL

Questions

Mike PopeDirector of [email protected]

12