Feb 07, 2012. /Lesprom Network/. The Board of Directors of Sonoco declared a regular $.29 per share quarterly common stock dividend. The dividend is payable on March 9, 2012, to shareholders of record as of February 17, 2012, as the company said in a press release received by Lesprom Network. According to Harris E. DeLoach, Jr., Chairman and CEO, this is the 347th consecutive quarter, dating back to 1925, that the Company has paid cash dividends to shareholders. Sonoco is a global provider of a variety of consumer packaging, industrial products, protective packaging and packaging supply chain services.