Avery Dennison Corp

Overview

Avery Dennison Corp. is a global materials-science and digital-identification company. Its Materials Group supplies pressure-sensitive label and graphics materials, tapes, and other functional bonding products; its Solutions Group provides labels, tags, tickets, RFID and item-level identification products, equipment, and related services. These offerings serve markets including apparel, retail, food and grocery, and logistics.[1]+2

The company describes its purpose as creating products and solutions that advance industries and help address complex challenges. Founded in 1935, Avery Dennison reported 2025 net sales of $8.9 billion; its company profile describes operations in more than 50 countries and approximately 35,000 employees.[4]+5 [1]+8

Products & services

Avery Dennison’s Materials Group supplies pressure-sensitive label materials, including RFID-inlay labels; graphic and reflective films; performance tapes and other adhesives for industrial, medical and other uses; and fastening solutions. Named product brands include Fasson®, JAC® and Avery Dennison® label materials and tapes, Avery Dennison® and Mactac® graphics, and Avery Dennison® reflective products. Applications include vehicle wraps, architectural films, and bonding for automotive, building and construction, and electronics markets.[4]+2

The Solutions Group offers apparel and brand embellishments, graphic tickets, tags and labels, sustainable packaging, item-level RFID, visibility and loss-prevention solutions, price ticketing and marking, care/content/country-of-origin labeling, and brand-protection and security solutions. Vestcom® provides shelf-edge productivity and media offerings; related equipment, services and supplies are also available.[6][4] Avery Dennison’s R&D capabilities include adhesives, films, inks and release liners, as well as coating, laminating and printing technologies; Solutions development includes RFID, embellishments and digital and data solutions.[10]

Specific examples include AD CleanFlake™ labels, designed to separate from PET containers during recycling without leaving adhesive residue on PET flakes; one product construction specifies PET-recycling compatibility at 70–90°C, subject to density conditions for the label, ink and varnish.[11][12] The AD-237r6 UHF RFID inlay is specified at 860–960 MHz, with a 70 × 15 mm antenna and Impinj Monza R6 chip.[13] Its atma.io Connected Product Cloud assigns unique digital product IDs and tracks and manages product events.[14]

For FY2025, Materials Group sales were $6,093.3 million and Solutions Group sales were $2,762.2 million, respectively about 68.8% and 31.2% of reported total net sales of $8,855.5 million (shares calculated from reported figures).[15] [4]+11

Geographic presence

For 2025, Avery Dennison reported net sales of $2.751 billion in the U.S. (31.1% of total), $2.457 billion in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (27.7%), $2.727 billion in Asia (30.8%), $567 million in Latin America (6.4%), and $353 million in “Other” (4.0%); the report does not further specify the geography in that last category.[16][17]

At year-end 2025, the company had approximately 35,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Nearly 20,000 employees—about 58% of the workforce—were in Asia Pacific; approximately 83% were outside the U.S. and 67% were in emerging markets. The company reported that about 71% worked in manufacturing-facility operations or directly supported them.[18][17]

The 2025 report lists Materials Group facilities in the U.S. and in Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand and the U.K. Its Solutions Group facilities are listed in the U.S. and in Bangladesh, China, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico and Vietnam. The principal executive office is in Mentor, Ohio.[19]+2 [16]+5

Business segments

Avery Dennison reports two business segments. **Materials Group** supplies pressure-sensitive label and graphics materials and includes label materials, graphics and reflective materials, and functional bonding materials and tapes used in industries such as automotive, construction and electronics. **Solutions Group** provides identification, branding and information solutions, including digital identification and data management, product branding and embellishment, and retail productivity and pricing solutions; its UHF RFID offerings serve markets including apparel, logistics, food and general retail.[1][5]

For FY2025, Materials Group generated $6,093.3 million, approximately **68.8%** of the two segments’ combined net sales to unaffiliated customers; Solutions Group generated $2,762.2 million, approximately **31.2%**.[22][15] The latest reported current-year comparison is the first half of 2026: Materials recorded $3,445.4 million, or approximately **72.4%**, and Solutions $1,316.0 million, or approximately **27.6%**, of combined segment sales.[23]

The company also discloses revenue categories within its segments, rather than as additional reportable segments. In 2025, Materials sales included $5,332.2 million from labels, graphics and reflectives; $547.2 million from performance materials; and $213.9 million from other. Solutions sales comprised Apparel and other ($1,811.8 million) and Identification Solutions and Vestcom ($950.4 million).[24][15] [1]+5

Company history

Ray Stanton “Stan” Avery founded Avery Adhesives in Los Angeles in 1935, after inventing a self-adhesive label. The company opened its first company-owned factory in Monrovia in 1948 and began expanding internationally in 1955.[7][25]

The company changed its name to Avery Products Corporation in 1964 and to Avery International in 1976. In 1990, Avery International merged with Dennison Manufacturing Company and adopted the name Avery Dennison Corporation.[7][25]

Avery Dennison expanded through acquisitions, including Paxar in 2007, Smartrac’s RFID transponder business in 2020 and Vestcom in 2021. In 2023, it acquired Thermopatch, Lion Brothers and Silver Crystal, broadening its apparel embellishment offerings.[26]+3 [7]+5

Sources

• Avery Dennison Corp — Full financial report (2025 Y)
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