Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE:AVY) 150 North Orange Grove Boulevard Pasadena, CA 91103 Phone: (626) 304-2000 Fax: (626) 792-7312 http://www.averydennison.com
Avery Dennison Corporation was incorporated in 1977 in the state of Delaware as Avery International Corporation. The Company's businesses include the production of pressure-sensitive materials, office products and a variety of tickets, tags, labels and other converted products. The reporting segments are: Pressure-sensitive Materials, Retail Information Services and Office and Consumer Products. The Pressure-sensitive Materials segment manufactures and sells Fasson, JAC-, and Avery Dennison-brand pressure-sensitive materials, Avery-brand graphics and graphic films, Avery Dennison-brand reflective products, and performance polymers. The business of this segment is generally not seasonal, except for certain outdoor graphics and reflective products and operations in Western Europe. Pressure-sensitive materials consist mainly of papers, plastic films, metal foils and fabrics, which are coated with Company-developed and purchased adhesives, and then laminated with specially coated backing papers and films. The Retail Information Services segment designs, manufactures and sells a variety of price marking and brand identification products for retailers, apparel manufacturers, distributors and industrial customers on a worldwide basis. The brand identification products include woven and printed labels, graphic tags and barcode tags. The Company's information management products include price tickets, carton labels, RFID tags and printing applications for supply chain and security management. The solution enabling products of the Company include barcode printers, molded plastic fastening and application devices and security management products. The Office and Consumer Products segment manufactures and sells a range of Avery-brand printable media and other products. This segment's products are generally sold through office products superstores, mass market distributors, wholesalers and dealers. It manufactures and sells a range of Avery-brand products for office, school and home uses: printable media, such as copier, ink-jet and laser printer labels, related computer software, ink-jet and laser printer card and index products; and organization, filing and presentation products, such as binders, dividers and sheet protectors. It also offers a range of other stationery products, including writing instruments, markers, adhesives and specialty products under brand names such as Avery, Marks-A-Lot and HI-LITER. The extent of product offerings varies by geographic market. Other specialty converting businesses include its specialty tape, industrial, performance films and automotive products, business media, RFID and security printing businesses. It uses various raw materials, mainly paper, plastic films and resins, as well as specialty chemicals. The main trademarks of the Company are Avery, Fasson, Avery Dennison. The Company competes with Raflatac, a subsidiary of UPM-Kymmene; Morgan Adhesives, SML Group, Checkpoint Systems, Inc. and Shore To Shore, Inc. Acco Brands Corporation, Esselte Corporation and manufacturers of private brands. Due to the nature of it business, it is subject to environmental, health, and safety laws and regulations, including those related to the disposal of hazardous waste from its manufacturing processes.
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