Manufacturing

Sonoco Products Company Corporate Office

Sonoco Products Company is a consumer and industrial packaging company that was founded in 1899 in South Carolina.

Sonoco manufactures composite cans, tubes, and cores, as well as blow-molded plastic containers, consumer and industrial thermoformed plastic packaging, paperboard containers, and convenience closures.

The company operates through the following divisions: Global Rigid Paper and Closures, Global Flexibles, Global Plastics, Global Services, Industrial Converted Products, Protective Packaging, and Sonoco Recycling.

Sonoco offers end-to-end packaging services, which include fulfillment, supply chain management, and point-of-purchase display design and assembly.

The company trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SON, is a member of the S&P 500, is #507 in the Fortune 1000, has 20,000 employees, and had $4.91 billion in revenue in 2013.

Sonoco Products Company

Sonoco Products Company is a consumer and industrial packaging company that was founded in 1899 in South Carolina.

History

Sonoco offers end-to-end packaging services, which include fulfillment, supply chain management, and point-of-purchase display design and assembly.

Joy Global Corporate Office

Joy Global services and manufactures heavy machinery.

The company was founded by Alonzo Pawling and Henry Harnischfeger when they worked at the Whitehill Sewing Machine Company in 1887. In response to equipment issues at the factory, Pawling and Harnischfeger designed and built a line of overhead cranes for manufacturing and warehouse operations.

The company, then known as P&H, diversified into earth moving machines after a bank panic in 1893. after 1911 and the passing of Alonzo Pawling, the company changed its name to Harnischfeger Industries.

Joseph Francis Joy patented a gathering arm type loader in 1919, which was the first device he designed in his aim to mechanize the coal-mining process. With this invention he launched Joy Mining Machinery.

Harnischfeger Industries bought Joy Mining Company in 1994 in a $700 million deal.

Today the company is known as Joy Global. Joy Global makes mining equipment through two subsidiaries: Joy Mining Machinery and P&H Mining Equipment. The company trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol JOY, is a member of the S&P 500, is #493 in the Fortune 500, has 16,600 employees, and had $3.83 billion in revenue in 2013.

Joy Global

Joy Global services and manufactures heavy machinery.

History

Harnischfeger Industries bought Joy Mining Company in 1994 in a $700 million deal.

Ingredion Incorporated sia,

Ingredion Incorporated was created in 1906 by the merger of several leading US corn refiners. The new company was named Corn Products Refining Co, later known as CPC.

Ingredion makes food ingredients as well as industrial products from corn and other starch-based materials. High fructose corn syrup and other sweeteners make up about 40% of the company’s sales.

The company also produces corn starch, corn oil, and corn gluten in manufacturing plants throughout the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Ingredion Incorporated trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol INGR, is a member of the S&P 500, is #412 in the Fortune 500, has 11,300 employees, and had $5.8 billion in revenue in 2013.

Ingredion Incorporated

Ingredion Incorporated was created in 1906 by the merger of several leading US corn refiners. The new company was named Corn Products Refining Co, later known as CPC.

Ingredion makes food ingredients as well as industrial products from corn and other starch-based materials. High fructose corn syrup and other sweeteners make up about 40% of the company’s sales.

The company also produces corn starch, corn oil, and corn gluten in manufacturing plants throughout the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

History

Seaboard Corporation Corporate Office

Seaboard Corporation was founded in 1918 when Otto Bresky bought a flour mill in Atchinson, Kansas. The company became known as Rodney Milling in 1928 when Bresky bought a company by that name and incorporated under it.

In 1959 the company merged with Hathaway Industries to create the new company Seaboard Allied Milling Corporation. Seaboard then began to expand quickly, both nationally and internationally.

Today Seaboard is a diversified agribusiness and transportation firm and has operations in 45 countries in the Americas, Africa, the Caribbean.

In the United States the company sells pork and poultry. Abroad Seaboard trades wheat and soy, operates power plants and feed and flour mills, and grows sugar cane.

Seaboard Corporation is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SEB, is #387 in the Fortune 500, has 11,397 employees, and had $6.55 billion in revenue in 2013.

Seaboard Corporation

In 1959 the company merged with Hathaway Industries to create the new company Seaboard Allied Milling Corporation. Seaboard then began to expand quickly, both nationally and internationally.

Today Seaboard is a diversified agribusiness and transportation firm and has operations in 45 countries in the Americas, Africa, the Caribbean.

History

In the United States the company sells pork and poultry. Abroad Seaboard trades wheat and soy, operates power plants and feed and flour mills, and grows sugar cane.

Seaboard Corporation is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SEB, is #387 in the Fortune 500, has 11,397 employees, and had $6.55 billion in revenue in 2013.

Lorillard Tobacco Company Corporate Office

The Lorillard Tobacco Company was founded in 1760 by Pierre Abraham Lorillard. The company is the country’s oldest continuously operating tobacco company.

The company was a small tobacco company until it was acquired by the American Tobacco Company in 1899 when it formed the new corporation called The Continental Tobacco Company.

Today Lorillard is the #3 cigarette maker in the United States. The company’s most well-known brand is Newport, which is the #2 best selling cigarette in the US. The company’s other brands include Kent, Old Gold, True, and Maverick.

Lorillard Tobacco Company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol LO, is a member of the S&P 500, is #496 in the Fortune 500, has 2,900 employees, and had $5.02 billion in revenue in 2013.

Lorillard Tobacco Company

The Lorillard Tobacco Company was founded in 1760 by Pierre Abraham Lorillard. The company is the country’s oldest continuously operating tobacco company.

The company was a small tobacco company until it was acquired by the American Tobacco Company in 1899 when it formed the new corporation called The Continental Tobacco Company.