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Avery Dennison
built 656 days ago
Avery Dennison is one of the pioneers in the pressure-sensitive technology and innovative self-adhesive solutions for consumer products and label materials. Company generates revenues from four business segments namely Pressure-Sensitive Materials (57%), Office and Consumer Products (20%), Retail information services (12%) and other specialty converting business (11%).
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In 1997 Avery Dennison filed a lawsuit against Four Pillars Enterprises Ltd., accusing the Taiwanese firm of fraud and espionage. The lawsuit came after two top executives of Four Pillars were arrested in the United States and charged with economic espionage, money laundering, and mail fraud. The case involved a former Avery Dennison researcher, Victor Lee, who testified during the trial that he had passed on trade secrets to Four Pillars while working as a paid "consultant" for the firm (and while still working for Avery Dennison). Among the secrets involved were chemical formulations for Avery's diaper tape, self-stick postage stamps, and battery labels. In 1999 both the company and the executives were convicted, although the judge in the case threw out 18 of the 21 charges brought against Four Pillars and the executives. In early 2000 Four Pillars was fined $5 million, one of the executives received six months of home confinement and 18 months of probation, and the other was placed on one year of probation.
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Avery Dennison began using Six Sigma in the Fasson Roll operation in 1998. It didn’t take long for the initiative to stick, and it soon spread throughout the company. Today, Six Sigma and Lean manufacturing are the foundation for driving productivity improvements across the company. The annual reports and press releases continually highlight the impact Six Sigma has on the company, their suppliers, and their customers.
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Avery Dennison's new RFID business will be headed by Mathew Mellis, who will hold the title VP, RFID and specialty converting. Mellis, a 25-year veteran at Avery Dennison, led the company's industrial and automotive products business for the past 14 years. Stan Drobac, VP of RFID applications, will continue to lead the division's sales, marketing, and research and development actitivites and will report to Mellis, says the manufacturer.
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Fluid, a Macromedia alliance partner, developed the Avery Photo ID System for Avery Dennison. The user interface was authored and designed in Flash, which then runs in a Director application that provides local system access to a MySQL database and Tomcat application server. Flash provided Avery with an obvious cross-platform solution, which has built-in webcam support and browser support. The Director layer enables access to the native operating system, which provides greater print control, the ability to disable windowing features from the operating system, and integrates with external devices such as business card scanners. Fluid used Flash and the same kiosk code to develop a web-deployed version of the Avery solution.
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The year in which Avery Dennison became a reality, 1990, was not a good one for the new company. Sales increased only 1 percent, from $2.4 billion to $2.6 billion, and net income declined from $114.2 million to a scanty $5.9 million. But as CEO Miller's reorganization began to take effect, Avery Dennison's bottom line improved. By 1995, revenues had increased to more than $3 billion, and profits burgeoned to $143.7 million.
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