Sonoco reshapes consumer packaging leadership

Sonoco Products Company has brought its planetary user packaging activities nether 1 absorption set-up, with Ernest Haynes taking complaint arsenic planetary user packaging president.

In the role, Haynes volition oversee the company's biggest concern area, which records astir $5.2bn successful yearly revenue.

The part includes 98 sites crossed 25 countries and employs 11,250 people.

Haynes volition study to Sonoco president and CEO HowardCoker.

Coker said: "I'm pleased to person an experienced person similar Ernest taking implicit this important role. He has astir 30 years of operating and commercialized enactment astatine Sonoco and volition bring the champion of our Americas and EMEA/APAC businesses unneurotic to leverage our technology, proviso concatenation and probe and improvement to conscionable the changing needs of our planetary customers."

Haynes joined Sonoco successful 1997 and has worked successful elder positions successful some its user and concern operations.

Before this change, helium led Sonoco's user portion successful the Americas and served arsenic president of metallic packaging North America aft the Ball Metalpack acquisition successful 2022.

Haynes said: "I'm excited by the accidental to further turn our beardown metallic and insubstantial tin businesses astir the world.

"This caller operation simplifies and improves the ratio of our operating exemplary enabling our teams to amended collaborate, innovate and grow. I americium passionate astir fostering a civilization of innovation and ensuring world-class manufacturing, prime and method work for our brands worldwide."

The concern insubstantial packaging conception volition stay nether the enactment of James Harrell, president.

Sonoco EMEA/APAC president Sean Cairns is departing the concern aft 17 years astatine the institution and 30 years successful the packaging sector.

In the erstwhile year, Sonoco combined its metallic packaging and rigid insubstantial containers businesses wrong 1 user packaging operation based connected geography.

That statement comprises 2 divisions: user packaging EMEA/APAC and user packaging Americas.

"Sonoco reshapes user packaging leadership" was primitively created and published by Packaging Gateway, a GlobalData owned brand.