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Sonoco: Products & Companies

Sonoco Products Company is an American provider of diversified consumer packaging, industrial products, protective packaging, and packaging supply chain services and the world's largest producer of composite cans, tubes, and cores. The company was founded in 1889 as Southern Novelty Company with annualized net sales of approximately $7.3 billion. Sonoco…

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Sonoco topic overview

The analysis highlights Products and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Sonoco.

Related topics
16
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
20
Extracted relationships
52
Related term clusters
12
Bridge connections
20

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Operations · 9 topics
Overview · 4 topics
Administration employees · 2 topics
Sustainability · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
1899
Industry
Packaging
Headquarters
Hartsville, South Carolina, United States
Founder
Major James Lide Coker
Key people
Howard Coker (CEO)
Net income
US$207.241 Million (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)

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Overview

Operations

Sustainability

Administration employees

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How Sonoco connects Entity context

The extracted context around Sonoco shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Sonoco → CEO, Charles, Coker, DeLoach Jr, Elected, Executive Chairman, Harris, Howard Coker, Jack Sanders, Major James Lide Coker, President, Rob, Southern Novelty Company, Tiede Another extracted example is Sonoco → Corporate Citizens, Corporate Responsibility Magazine, Dow Jones Sustainability World, Gold Class Awards, Green Rankings, Index, Newsweek, SAM, SAM's Sustainability Yearbook, Sonoco Recycling, Sustainable Asset Management, Top, United States's. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Sonoco

Top relations

related to Administration employees · 14
Sonoco → CEO, Charles, Coker, DeLoach Jr, Elected, Executive Chairman, Harris, Howard Coker, Jack Sanders, Major James Lide Coker, President, Rob, Southern Novelty Company, Tiede
related to Sustainability · 13
Sonoco → Corporate Citizens, Corporate Responsibility Magazine, Dow Jones Sustainability World, Gold Class Awards, Green Rankings, Index, Newsweek, SAM, SAM's Sustainability Yearbook, Sonoco Recycling, Sustainable Asset Management, Top, United States's
related to Operations · 10
Sonoco → Closures, Global Flexibles, Global Plastics, Global Rigid Paper, Global Services, Industrial Converted Products, Protective Packaging, Sonoco Recycling, Sonoco's, Sonotube
Founded · 1
Sonoco → 1899
Founder · 1
Sonoco → Major James Lide Coker
Headquarters · 1
Sonoco → Hartsville, South Carolina, United States
Industry · 1
Sonoco → Packaging
Key people · 1
Sonoco → Howard Coker (CEO)
Net income · 1
Sonoco → US$207.241 Million (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)
Number of employees · 1
Sonoco → 21,000 (2017)

Important terminology

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Important terminology

company products packaging largest coker employees consumer operations founded hartsville president executive industrial world's tubes cores approximately sales sustainability james

Sonoco relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 52 structured relationships around Sonoco. Examples in this analysis include Sonoco → Founded → 1899 and Sonoco → Founder → Major James Lide Coker. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
SonocoFounded18991.00infobox
SonocoFounderMajor James Lide Coker1.00infobox
SonocoHeadquartersHartsville, South Carolina, United States1.00infobox
SonocoIndustryPackaging1.00infobox
SonocoKey peopleHoward Coker (CEO)1.00infobox
SonocoNet incomeUS$207.241 Million (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)1.00infobox
SonocoNumber of employees21,000 (2017)1.00infobox
SonocoOperating incomeUS$255.592 Million (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)1.00infobox
SonocoRevenueUS$5.237 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)1.00infobox
SonocoTotal assetsUS$5.277 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)1.00infobox
SonocoTotal equityUS$1.910 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)1.00infobox
SonocoTraded asNYSE: SON S&P 400 Component1.00infobox
SonocoTypePublic1.00infobox
SonocoWebsitewww.sonoco.com1.00infobox
Sonocois amember of the New York Stock Exchange Century Index and the S0.90text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Sonoco bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Largest, Cores and Operations. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Sonoco
    • Largest
    • Cores
    • Operations
    • Sustainability
    • Tubes
    • World's
    • Century
    • Chain
    • Employees
    • Index
    • Producer
    • Services
  • sonoco
    • Largest
    • Cores
    • Operations
    • Sustainability
    • Tubes
    • World's
    • Century
    • Chain
    • Employees
    • Index
    • Producer
    • Services
  • packaging
    • Cores
    • Industrial
    • Tubes
    • World's
    • Sonoco
    • Largest
    • Chain
    • Producer
    • Protective
    • Services
    • Supply
    • Operations
  • holding company
    • Sonoco
    • Products
    • Packaging
    • Founded
    • Consumer
    • Largest
    • Carolina
    • Net
    • Novelty
    • Producer
    • Sales
    • South
  • james lide coker
    • Ceo
    • Coker
    • Founded
    • Hartsville
    • James
    • President
    • Net
    • Novelty
    • Producer
    • Son
    • South
    • Southern
  • charles w. coker
    • Ceo
    • Founded
    • Hartsville
    • James
    • President
    • Employees
    • Net
    • Novelty
    • Producer
    • Son
    • South
    • Southern
  • r. howard coker
    • Ceo
    • Founded
    • Hartsville
    • James
    • President
    • Employees
    • Net
    • Novelty
    • Producer
    • Son
    • South
    • Southern
  • hartsville, south carolina
    • South
    • Hartsville
    • Largest
    • Coker
    • Employees
    • Net
    • Producer
    • Sales
    • Son
    • Ceo
    • Cores
    • Founded

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Sonoco, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Sonoco with Operations. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Sonoco — Operations · splits 11 ⟂ 10
Sonoco — Overview · splits 16 ⟂ 5
Sonoco — Administration employees · splits 18 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Sonoco

Nodes21
Edges20
Triples52
Avg. degree1.9
Density0.095238
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Sonoco to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Products & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Sonoco · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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