Caraustar Receives Lance Supplier of the Year Award

Caraustar scored 100 percent for all review categories and for the four quarters of 2006. The company also received the award in 2005 and seven times over the past several years.

12/05/07 Caraustar Industries, Inc. was recently honored with the prestigious Lance Supplier of the Year Award in recognition of its quality conformance, service, inventory controls and value-added contributions in the manufacture of paperboard cartons and knock down folding blanks (flat sheet paperboard also known as KDF blanks) required for packaging many of the Lance leading brand name snack food products, including its sandwich crackers and cookies, and nuts. All suppliers for Lance are reviewed on a quarterly basis on a score of 0 to 100 percent and receive a final evaluation at year end. Caraustar scored 100 percent for all review categories and for the four quarters of 2006. The company also received the award in 2005 and seven times over the past several years.

Caraustar has been one of the primary suppliers for Lance for over 30 years. Its Randleman Carton Plant, Randleman, NC, is the primary manufacturing facility that supplies approximately 85 percent of the Lance paperboard name brand snack food packaging requirements.