Avery Dennison History & Historical Profile

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Avery Dennison Corporation 150 North Orange Grove Boulevard Pasadena, CA 91103-3596 Phone: 626-304-2000 Fax: 626-304-2192

February 2020 Summary: Avery Dennison (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials. The company's products, which are used in nearly every major industry, include pressure-sensitive materials for labels and graphic applications; tapes and other bonding solutions for industrial, medical, and retail applications; tags, labels and embellishments for apparel; and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions serving retail apparel and other markets. Headquartered in Glendale, California, the company employs more than 30,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Reported sales in 2019 were $7.1 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

October 2013 Summary: Avery Dennison Corporation engages in the production and sale of pressure-sensitive materials worldwide. Many of these products are appropriate for the fashion industry. Its Pressure-sensitive Materials segment offers pressure-sensitive label and packaging materials, graphics and graphic films, reflective products, and tapes and performance polymers. This segment markets its products under the Fasson, JAC, Avery Dennison, and Avery brands to label printers and converters for labeling, decorating, fastening, and electronic data processing applications in the home and personal care, beer and beverage, durables, pharmaceutical, wine and spirits, and food market industries. The company's Retail Branding and Information Solutions segment provides branding and information solutions, including creative services, brand embellishments, graphic tickets, tags, labels, and sustainable packaging solutions; and information solutions, such as radio-frequency identification-enabled inventory accuracy, visibility and loss prevention solutions, price ticketing and marking, brand protection, and security solutions, as well as care, content, and country or origin compliance solutions. This segment serves retailers, brand owners, apparel manufacturers, distributors, and industrial customers. It also offers specialty tapes, engineered films, pressure-sensitive postage stamps, and other converted products to original equipment manufacturers, tier suppliers, and packaging converters; and pressure-sensitive adhesive products to medical supply and device manufacturers, and healthcare providers. In addition, Avery Dennison provides printable media and other products comprising copiers, ink-jet and laser printer labels, related computer software, laser printer cards, and index products, as well as binders, dividers, and sheet protectors. The company was formerly known as Avery International Corporation and changed its name to Avery Dennison Corporation in 1990. Avery Dennison Corporation was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

September 2007 Summary: Avery Dennison is a global leader in pressure-sensitive labeling materials, office products and retail tag, ticketing and branding systems. Based in Pasadena, Calif., Avery Dennison is a FORTUNE 500 Company with 2006 sales of $5.6 billion. Combined with Paxar, Avery Dennison now employs more than 30,000 individuals in approximately 50 countries worldwide who develop, manufacture and market a wide range of products for both consumer and industrial markets. Products offered by Avery Dennison include: Fasson brand self-adhesive materials; Avery Dennison and Paxar brand products for the retail and apparel industries; Avery brand office products and graphics imaging media; specialty tapes, peel-and-stick postage stamps, and labels for a wide variety of automotive, industrial and durable goods applications

On March 22, 2007, Avery Dennison announced a definitive agreement to acquire Paxar for $30.50 per share in a cash transaction valued at approximately $1.34 billion. With the acquisition of Paxar, Avery Dennison's Retail Information Services (RIS) business is expected to represent about 24 percent of Avery Dennison's revenues - up from 12 percent before the combination. Paxar reported sales last year of $881 million. Avery Dennison said it will provide additional information on the anticipated financial benefits of the transaction, including expected sources and timing of cost synergies, during its regularly scheduled quarterly earnings release on July 24, 2007.

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