• The Coca-Cola Company presented Sonoco with its 2007 Partners in the Promise Award for its support of Coca-Cola’s second-tier diversity initiative. 
  
  
• Customer British Petroleum received Advance Auto Parts’ 2007 Grand Vendor Award for the three-level, cost-effective Castrol GTX motor oil Sonopop display system created by Sonoco CorrFlex, Sonoco’s point-of-purchase display unit.
  
  
• Sonoco moved to 550 on the 2007 Fortune 500 List, up from 563 in 2006 as a result of 10.5 percent year-over-year sales growth.
  

April 2008

• Philip Morris presented Sonoco’s Keating Gravure with its Supplier of the Year for Excellence in Innovation Award. Calling Sonoco one of its top two most innovative suppliers, Phillip Morris recognized Sonoco for cutting-edge product development through 2007. Sonoco Trident also played a critical role in helping this customer improve product quality and reduce time to market.
  
  
• Sonoco's work on the labels for 20-ounce bottles of Boeing 787 Dreamliner Premiere Water received an award in the Flexographic Technical Association's 2008 Excellence in Flexography Awards Competition.
  
  
• For reducing accidents and improving safety statistics, Sonoco Recycling was honored by the National Private Truck Council with a second place prize in the category of local operation, large fleet, in the council's 2008 Fleet Safety Award Program.
  
  
• Sonoco CorrFlex won 11 Outstanding Merchandising Awards (OMA) for designing innovative temporary, semipermanent and permanent displays at the 50th Annual Point of Purchase Advertising International (POPAI) design competition held in Chicago.
  
  
• At its annual Mercury Awards banquet, the South Carolina chapter of the Public Relations Society of America recognized Sonoco’s 2006 annual report with a Silver Wing Award. Sonoco’s employee safety campaign, Will Today Be the Day?, received a Mercury Award of Merit.
  

March 2008

• In its 2008 Achievement Awards, the Flexible Packaging Association presented Sonoco's new, peelable Ultrapeel convenience closure, designed especially for heat-and-eat foods, with a Gold Award.
  
   
• In its March 17 issue, Fortune magazine listed Sonoco as its sixth most admired company in the packaging, containers industry for the second consecutive year. 
  
  
• Eastman Chemical Company, based in Kingsport, Tenn., presented the company's Newport, Tenn., industrial products facility with the coveted 2007 Eastman Supplier Excellence Award, which signifies consistent performance in furnishing Eastman with high-quality materials and services and working on Eastman's behalf to improve its efficiency and competitiveness. 
  
  
• Sonoco Recycling's Columbia, S.C., U.S. facility was recognized as a City of Columbia Green Business member for installing energy-saving light bulbs, composting, and minimizing truck idling while providing recycling service to 10 South Carolina counties.
  

January 2008

• CRO (Corporate Responsibility Officer) magazine named Sonoco one of the 10 Best Corporate Citizens in the Paper sector in 2007.

See also:
2007 awards and accolades
2006 awards and accolades
2005 awards and accolades