Feb 06, 2008. /Lesprom Network/. Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, today announced that M. Jack Sanders has been elected executive vice president, Industrial, according to Harris E. DeLoach Jr., chairman, president and CEO. In this new position, Sanders, has global operating responsibility for all of the Company’s businesses which serve industrial markets, including Sonoco’s tubes and cores, paper, wire and cable reels, protective packaging, paperboard specialties and recycling. He reports to DeLoach and continues to serve on the Company’s executive committee. Sonoco is a $4.0 billion global manufacturer of industrial and consumer products and provider of packaging services, with approximately 335 operations in 35 countries, serving customers in some 85 nations.