---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000091767-25-000017"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SON"
cik: "0000091767"
company_name: "SONOCO PRODUCTS CO"
filed_at: "2025-04-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T12:52:58.759922+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sonoco shareholders re-elect all 12 directors, approve auditor and say-on-pay, reject political spending proposal

## Summary
- All 12 director nominees elected with 71.4M to 75.2M votes for each; no director received less than 71.4M for.
- PricewaterhouseCoopers ratified as independent auditor for FY2025 (84.3M for, 4.4M against).
- Advisory say-on-pay approved (71.0M for, 4.2M against, 356k abstentions).
- Shareholder proposal on political spending transparency rejected (46.1M against, 27.1M for).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000091767-25-000017
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SON
- cik: 0000091767
- company_name: SONOCO PRODUCTS CO
- filed_at: 2025-04-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000009176725000017/0000091767-25-000017-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000009176725000017/son-20250416.htm

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