secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     SONOCO PRODUCTS CO (SON)
CIK:        0000091767
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-04-16T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000091767-26-000016
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Sonoco shareholders elect all directors, approve say-on-pay, incentive plan; reject political spending proposal
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- All 11 director nominees elected with at least 72.9M votes for each; highest against tally was 3.0M for Richard Kyle.
- PricewaterhouseCoopers ratified as auditor for FY2026 with 84.3M votes for (94.8% of votes cast).
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with 72.0M for (94.8% excluding broker non-votes).
- Amendment No. 1 to 2024 Omnibus Incentive Plan approved with 72.5M votes for.
- Shareholder proposal on political spending transparency not approved: 31.6M for, 42.7M against.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000009176726000016/0000091767-26-000016-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000009176726000016/son-20260415.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000091767-26-000016

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