Avery Dennison Now Shipping Additional "Bugs Bunny" Self-Adhesive Postage Stamps.PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 1997-- Company Produces 100 Million Stamps To Meet Demand Avery Dennison Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) produces pressure-sensitive materials (such as self-adhesive labels), office products, and various paper products. R. Stanton Avery founded Avery in 1935. Avery Dennison Corporation was created in 1990 by merger of Avery and Dennison. Corp. Wednesday announced that it has begun shipping 100 million additional "Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny is an animated rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Warner Bros., one of which, 1958's Knighty Knight Bugs " commemorative stamps to post offices nationwide. To keep up with demand for the highly popular 32-cent stamp, the Postmaster General POSTMASTER GENERAL. The chief officer of the post office department of the United States. Various duties are imposed upon this officer by the acts of congress of March 3, 1825, and July 2, 1836, which will be found under the articles Mail; Post Office and Postage. authorized a reprint less than a month after the stamp was first issued in May. Avery Dennison initially printed 265 million "Bugs" stamps, which was the largest run in the U.S. Postal Service's commemorative program this year. This reprint, combined with an initial printing overrun of 13 million stamps, brings the total number of "Bugs" stamps issued to date to 378 million. Featured in the USPS's recently launched Stampers program to reinvigorate re·in·vig·o·rate tr.v. re·in·vig·o·rat·ed, re·in·vig·o·rat·ing, re·in·vig·o·rates To give new life or energy to. re stamp collecting among children, "Bugs" was the natand converted by the company's Security Printins and label systems. Based in Pasadena, Calif., the company makes a wide range of products for consumer and industrial markets, including Avery-brand office automation products, Fasson-brand self-adhesive materials, peel-and-stick postage stamps This is a list of postage stamps that are especially notable in some way. The best-known stamps:
CONTACT: Avery Dennison, Pasadena Media Relations: Diane B. Dixon, 818/304-2118 dixondiane@averydennison.com or Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. : Wayne H. Smith, 818/304-2001 |
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