HARTSVILLE — Sonoco has been named a North America Top Company for Leaders by Hewitt Associates, The RBL Group and Fortune magazine.
Sonoco was ranked 20th on this year’s list of Top Companies for Leaders in North America, Cindy Hartley, senior vice president of human resources, said Friday.
Conducted by Hewitt Associates, a global consulting and outsourcing company, in partnership with The RBL Group, a strategic human resources and leadership systems advisory firm, and Fortune magazine, Top Companies for Leaders is a study of organizational leadership in the world. A panel of independent judges selected and ranked winners based on criteria including strength and depth of leadership practices, culture, examples of developing world-class leaders, business performance and company reputation.
“Sonoco is extremely honored to be named a Top Company for Leaders for the third consecutive time, and to be the only packaging company on the list,”
Hartley said in a press release issued by the company. “We have always believed that ‘People Build Businesses’ and know that at the most successful companies, managers play the primary role in selecting, developing and retaining leaders. That’s why at Sonoco, managers, not human resources, are responsible for developing their employees.”
Other companies making the 2009 list of Top Companies for Leaders in North America were IBM, Procter & Gamble, General Mills, McKinsey, McDonald’s, General Electric, Colgate-Palmolive, Deere, Whirlpool, 3M, Cargill, Target, Eli Lilly, PepsiCo, American Express, Lockheed Martin, Intel, DaVita, FedEx, Cummins, VF, Capital One Financial, Hewlett-Packard and Raytheon.
“All global companies today are facing a number of complex business and economic challenges. Through our research, it’s clear that Top Companies such as Sonoco do not abandon key leadership and talent efforts in favor of short-term goals,” said Bob Gandossy, global practice leader of Hewitt’s Leadership Consulting practice, said in the release. “Leaders at these organizations are passionate and committed. They have an intense focus on talent, and their leadership programs are practical, relevant and aligned with business goals — in both good times and bad.”
Sonoco, founded in 1899 and headquartered in Hartsville, is a $4.1 billion global manufacturer of consumer and industrial packaging products and provider of packaging services, with more than 300 operations in 35 countries serving customers in some 85 nations. It is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. For more information, visit its Web site, www.sonoco.com.
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