General Info

Solo Cup Company is a more than $2 billion company headquartered in Highland Park, Ill. The company focuses exclusively on the manufacture of disposable tableware and packaging for the consumer/retail, food service, packaging and international markets. Its line of disposables is made from plastic, paper and foam. The company creates products under the Solo, Sweetheart, Fonda, Hoffmaster and Lily brand names. The company operates facilities in Europe, Asia, North America and Central America. Solo Cup Company was established as the Paper Container Manufacturing Company in 1936. The company began manufacturing a paper cone cup known as the Solo Cup, for which the company was renamed, during the 1940s. In 2006, Forbes listed Solo as the 132nd-largest private company.