Avery Dennison

Our Vision for Global Leadership: We are committed to being the world leader in products, services and solutions that enable and transform the way consumers and businesses gather, distribute and communicate information. With innovative products and services, well-known brands and leading-edge technologies, we serve a broad and ever-changing spectrum of consumer and industrial markets all over the world--from graphics and packaging, to variable imprinting and automotive, to home and office products. Our products fit the evolving markets of advanced and developing economies--with consumer needs in mind. We will continue to take our technologies and capabilities into new markets around the world. To expand our existing core businesses. Or to create new ones. Aaron Dennison and his father, Andrew Dennison, begin manufacturing paper jewelry boxes in Brunswick, Maine. Henry Sturgis Dennison, grandson of E.W. Dennison, begins 35-year stint as company president. R. Stanton Avery forms Los Angeles-based Kum-Kleen Adhesive Products Co. to produce self-adhesive labels. Avery begins supplying labels to Dennison, which the latter sells under the brand name Pres-a-ply. Henry S. Dennison dies, ending more than 100 years of Dennison family leadership of Dennison Manufacturing. Avery creates a division called Avery Paper Company (later called Fasson), which specializes in producing and selling self-adhesive base materials, often to competing label makers. Jackstädt GmbH, privately held maker of self-adhesive materials based in Germany, is acquired. Aviacionny Nauchno-Tehnicheskii Komplex im. A.N. Tupoleve (Tupolev Aviation and Scientific Technical Complex)