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Sonoco Products Company reports recurring developments tied to its global packaging operations, including Consumer Packaging and Industrial Paper Packaging. News commonly covers quarterly and annual results, guidance, segment performance, portfolio simplification, capital allocation and common-stock dividends.
Company updates also address pricing for uncoated recycled paperboard, tubes, cores and converted paperboard products in North America and EMEA, along with capacity investments such as paper can production and nailed wood reel manufacturing. Sonoco news frequently connects these actions to demand in food, beverage, household, personal care, pharmaceutical, industrial and infrastructure-related packaging markets.
Sonoco (NYSE: SON) will raise prices in its EMEA industrial paper packaging business effective for shipments on or after 15 April 2026. The company will increase uncoated recycled paperboard (URB) by €80 per ton and raise all tube and core product prices by 8%.
Sonoco attributes the move to escalating inflationary pressures across energy, natural gas, fuel, chemicals and additives and says it must pass costs to the market. Sonoco S.a.r.l. operates 19 tubes and core plants and five paperboard mills in Europe.
Sonoco (NYSE: SON) issued its 2025 Annual Report, Form 10-K and proxy and set its 2026 Annual General Meeting for April 15, 2026 in Hartsville, S.C., with an investor webcast available.
Sonoco will release Q1 2026 results on April 21, 2026 after market close and host a conference call/webcast on April 22, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. ET; replays will be available on the Investor Relations website.
Sonoco (NYSE: SON) will implement a $70 per ton price increase for all grades of uncoated recycled paperboard (URB) in the U.S. and Canada, effective with shipments beginning April 3, 2026. The company also will raise prices for all converted paperboard products by 8%, effective with shipments on and after April 15, 2026.
The company attributed the changes to tightening market conditions, higher mill utilization and inflationary input costs, and said it will continue servicing customers with existing quality and reliability standards.
Sonoco (NYSE: SON) held Investor Day on Feb 17, 2026, outlining a 2026–2028 value-creation plan with quantified targets.
Key goals include adjusted EBITDA of ~$1.5 billion by end of 2028, ~200 basis points of margin expansion, cumulative cash flow from operations of ~$2.5 billion, capex ~4% of sales, and a long-term net leverage target below 2.5x. The company reaffirmed >100 years of consecutive dividends and continued share repurchases.
Sonoco (NYSE: SON) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results on Feb 16, 2026, showing broad portfolio transformation progress.
Key highlights: Q4 net sales $1.77B (+29.7% YoY), Q4 GAAP net income $332.2M, Q4 adjusted EPS $1.05, full-year adjusted EBITDA $1.324B, and net debt reduced by $2.7B to about $3.9B (net leverage ~3.0x). The company closed the ThermoSafe sale for $656M and issued 2026 guidance of $5.80–$6.20 adjusted EPS and $1.25–$1.35B adjusted EBITDA.
Sonoco (NYSE: SON) was named to FORTUNE’s World’s Most Admired Companies list on Feb. 16, 2026, ranking first in Innovation, first overall, and third in Packaging.
Sonoco also placed second for use of corporate assets, financial soundness, long-term investment and global competitiveness, and was included in Newsweek’s 2026 America’s Most Responsible Companies list for ESG performance.
Sonoco (NYSE: SON) appointed Craig L. Nix, CPA to its Board of Directors effective Feb. 12, 2026. Mr. Nix is CFO of First Citizens BancShares (Nasdaq: FCNCA) and brings decades of corporate finance, accounting and capital-allocation experience.
He will serve as an independent director, join the Audit Committee and Financial Policy Committee, and will stand for election at Sonoco’s next Annual General Meeting.
Sonoco (NYSE: SON) declared a quarterly common stock dividend of $0.53 per share, payable March 10, 2026, to shareholders of record as of February 25, 2026. The company said this marks its 403rd consecutive quarter and 100th year of dividend payments and the 42nd consecutive year of annual dividend increases. Based on Sonoco's closing price on February 10, 2026, the dividend yields approximately 4.1%, more than double the S&P 500 dividend yield.
Sonoco (NYSE:SON) and ENGIE North America began delivery under a 15-year Virtual Power Purchase Agreement for production from ENGIE’s Big Sampson Wind Project in Crockett County, Texas.
The VPPA covers an estimated 140 megawatts per year, about 83% of Sonoco’s U.S. electricity needs in 2025 and roughly 52% of Big Sampson’s expected output, and is expected to cut Sonoco’s baseline carbon emissions by ~19%.
Sonoco (NYSE: SON) announced that Chief Operating Officer Rodger Fuller will retire effective February 28, 2026 after a 40-year career. Fuller served as COO since 2020 and recently acted as Interim CEO of Sonoco’s Metal Packaging EMEA business through end of 2025. Sonoco will not appoint a replacement COO; instead each business unit president will report directly to Howard Coker, President and CEO. Fuller joined Sonoco in 1985 and held multiple senior operations and commercial roles during his tenure.