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Sustainability and
Annual Reports
Notice and
Proxy Statement
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LETTER FROM OUR PRESIDENT & CEO
Deon Stander
Fellow Stakeholders,
Our team at Avery Dennison again delivered strong results
across our businesses last year, achieving top- and bottomline growth at the upper end of our guidance and making
excellent progress toward our long-term strategic and
durability of our portfolio, the resilience of our industryleading market positions, the agility and talent of our global
These factors have and will continue to provide us with
multiple levers to deliver strong results and compound
The strength of our portfolio
Our Materials and Solutions Groups both delivered strong
top- and bottom-line results, once again demonstrating
recovered from downstream inventory destocking, as
expected, our relentless focus on productivity drove
margin expansion, and our continued investment in
innovative materials and digitally enabled packaging
solutions delivered strong growth across high-value
of delivering GDP-plus growth, margin expansion and top
Our base business foundation delivers consistent
results and strong cash ow
Our leadership position in our base businesses remains
productivity initiatives to drive margin improvement and
materials innovation initiatives to expand our market share
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business, our focus on material reengineering, lean operating
In the Solutions business, with apparel industry volumes
having normalized, our apparel growth was strong across all
products and solutions that serve our customers evolving
needs and create potential new avenues of growth and
of our overall portfolio, provides the platform for us to
Our ability to continually expand the value proposition
of our foundational products is a key to our consistent
Catalysts for strong growth and margin expansion
in high-value categories
into high-value categories that can deliver faster, more
further innovation and above-average growth well into
specialty and durable labels, industrial tapes, graphics,
Embelex, Vestcom and our Intelligent Labels platform,
where we are uniquely positioned to enable digital
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build on our well-established position in these categories,
creating a more differentiated and, ultimately, more valuable
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half of our portfolio and have accounted for roughly three
percentage points of our organic sales growth annually
categories continues to expand, we will continue to invest
Solving industry challenges
Much of our forward momentum and growth is now driven
by strategies focused on solving the new and increasingly
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accelerating technological change and evolving consumer
expectations, our customers are increasingly turning
to Avery Dennison for solutions that can optimize their
supply chains, reduce waste, advance the sustainability,
circularity and transparency of their products, and increase
Our efforts in 2024 resulted in new innovations and portfolio
extensions that help our customers expand supply chain
visibility and reduce waste, extend product performance
and lifespan, foster packaging circularity and enable deeper
solutions and advanced materials innovations are making
ideas and the value we create that we have embedded them
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of successful innovation and our path to sustainable long
Advancing sustainability
Sustainability remains a driver of innovation and operational
material circularity, the environmental impact of our
to develop differentiated products and solutions that create
value for our customers by addressing some of their most
environmental impact by eliminating waste and using our
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year advancing our sustainability goals and are largely on
Our commitment to making a positive impact on our
employees and the communities in which we operate is
disaster relief efforts, the Avery Dennison Foundation
supports critical community needs worldwide, including
Creating long-term stakeholder value
exceptional value to all our stakeholders, execute our
clear competitive advantages in both our Materials and
global team, we are uniquely positioned to unlock
substantial growth opportunities in 2025, marking 90
Thank you to our entire Avery Dennison team for their
passion and dedication and to you for your interest in
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report and our 2025 notice and proxy statement and highlights our
water are publicly available on our website esg.averydennison.com
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Contents
SECTION I
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Letter from Our President & CEO
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About This Report
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Our Company
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Our Stakeholders
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Our Values
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Our Business Strategies
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Our Strategies in Action
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Drive outsized growth in high-value categories
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Lead at the intersection of the physical and digital
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Effectively allocate capital and relentlessly
focus on productivity
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Lead in an environmentally and
socially responsible manner
SECTION II
2024 Annual Report
SECTION III
2025 Notice and Proxy Statement
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