---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-012955"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SON"
cik: "0000091767"
company_name: "SONOCO PRODUCTS CO"
filed_at: "2025-02-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T22:34:30.198195+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sonoco appoints Scott A. Clark, former Michelin EVP, to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Board increased from 11 to 12 directors, effective Feb. 12, 2025.
- Clark, 59, is a 28-year Michelin veteran, most recently EVP and member of Group Executive Committee.
- He will serve on the Audit and Executive Compensation Committees as an independent director.
- Clark previously served as Chairman and President of Michelin North America.
- He will stand for election at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-012955
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SON
- cik: 0000091767
- company_name: SONOCO PRODUCTS CO
- filed_at: 2025-02-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000110465925012955/0001104659-25-012955-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000110465925012955/tm256275d1_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-012955
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-012955.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Scott A. Clark was appointed as Director at SONOCO PRODUCTS CO.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 12, 2025, upon the recommendation of its Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Sonoco Products Company (the “Company”) approved an increase to the size of the Board from eleven (11) to twelve (12) directors and appointed Scott A. Clark to the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000110465925012955/0001104659-25-012955-index.htm

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