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Form 4 SONOCO PRODUCTS CO For: Dec 09 Filed by: Wood Adam

December 13, 2016 5:55 PM EST
FORM 4 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b).
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person *
Wood Adam

(Last) (First) (Middle)
ONE NORTH SECOND ST
P O BOX 160

(Street)
HARTSVILLE SC 29551-0160

(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
SONOCO PRODUCTS CO [ SON ]
5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
Director 10% Owner
X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
VP Paper&Ind EMEA,Asia,ANZ
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
12/09/2016
4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) 2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) 6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price
Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) 2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) 8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) 9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) 10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Dividend Equivalents on Restricted Stock Units $ 0 (1) 12/09/2016   A   54.6     (2)   (2) Common Stock 54.6 $ 54.01 390.2 D  
Explanation of Responses:
1. Each share of Dividend equivalents on Restricted Stock units is the economic equivalent of one share of Sonoco Products Company common stock
2. Acquired quarterly dividend equivalent rights on Restricted Stock which will be settled upon the reporting person's retirement or other termination of service.
Remarks:
wood-poa.txt
By:Elizabeth R. Kremer-Power of Attorney for Adam Wood 12/13/2016
** Signature of Reporting Person Date
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Special Power of Attorney
Forms 3, 4 and 5 under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934




	KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director or
officer, or both, of Sonoco Products Company constitutes and appoints Barry L.
Saunders, John M. Florence, Jr. and Elizabeth R. Kremer, his or her true and
lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution and resubstitution,

and each of them with full power to act without the other for him or her and in
his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to execute and
file, or cause to be filed, with the Securities and Exchange Commission Forms 3,

4 and 5 pursuant to Section 16 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, (the "Act") and any amendment to the foregoing, on his or her behalf,
or on behalf of any trust or other entity that is required by the rules under
Section 16 of the Act, to file reports under Section 16 because of the fact that

said director or officer is a trustee, fiduciary or otherwise, granting unto
said attorneys-in-fact and agents, full power and authority to do and perform
each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done as fully to all
intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying
and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.  The authority granted by this Special Power
of Attorney shall remain in effect as long as the undersigned is required to
file Forms 4 and 5 under the reporting requirements of Section 16. The
undersigned acknowledges that no attorney-in-fact of the undersigned pursuant to

this Special Power of Attorney, by serving in such capacity, is assuming any of
the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Act.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Special Power of
Attorney this sixteenth day of November, 2016.


	Signature:__________________________
       	Typed: 	   Adam Wood



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