Avery Dennison Corporation

Pasadena, CA United States

  (NYSE: AVY)

Company Description

Avery Dennison is easy to label: It's a global leader in the making of adhesive labels used on packaging, mailers, and other items. Pressure-sensitive adhesives and materials account for more than half of its sales. Under the Avery Dennison and Fasson brands, it makes papers, films, and foils coated with adhesive and sold in rolls to printers. The company also makes school and office products (Avery, Marks-A-Lot, HI-LITER) such as notebooks, three-ring binders, business forms, tickets, and imprinting equipment. Perhaps its most widely used products are the self-adhesive stamps used by the US Postal Service since 1974. In 2011 it agreed to sell its Office and Consumer Products business to 3M for $550 million.