Profile: Edgar L. Smith Jr – founder and CEO of World Pac Paper, LLC

Edgar L. Smith Jr – founder and CEO of World Pac Paper, LLC. PHOTO/Black Enterprise Magazine

Edgar L. Smith Jr is the founder and CEO of the Cincinnati, Ohio-based company World Pac Paper, LLC.

Smith launched the company in 2004, and the company is projected to attain revenues of US$ 42 million in 2012.

Prior to launching World Pac Paper, LLC., in 2004, Smith was a vice president, national sales with Coca-Cola North America.

Smith, was selected by the Columbus District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), as the 2010 Small Business Person of the Year for the State of Ohio and Region V of the United Sates, which covers Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.

Under Smith, World Pac Paper, LLC has grown and become an Inc. 500 company and award signing national distributor of high quality printing, packaging and specialty papers and packaging solutions. The company serves the Fortune 500/1000, commercial printers, catalogers, book and magazine publishers, integrated and independent corrugated converters, folding carton/rigid box manufacturers, tube winders, laminators, paper converters and the foodservice industry.

World Pac Paper, LLC is a Certified Minority Enterprise. (MBE)