Bay Cities Container

Bay Cities was established in July of 1956 in Los Angeles by Mr. Bill Hanan, CEO and Founder. Beginning his selling career in the box business in 1946 for Wilson Paper Company, Bill then moved to National Container as a commissioned representative, which later became Nekoosa Packaging. To provide the smaller quantities, it was necessary to buy from various sheet plants. BillÕs customers wanted mill quality and the various sheet plants did not produce mill quality. It was for this reason that a manufacturing plant, Arrow Container & Packaging Corporation was formed in 1967, a subsidiary of Bay Cities.While associated with National Container, Bill became aware that many of his customers wanted more from a corrugated company than just brown boxes. They wanted supplementary packaging. After a brief period of time, during which he tried representing various folding cartons and specialty packaging items, he sensed there was a lack of coordination in providing these different packaging components. In order to satisfy that need, he formed Bay Cities Container Corporation.