Avery Dennison Produces American Illustrators Commemorative Self-Adhesive Postage Stamps.Business & Lifestyle Editors PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2001 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. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AVY) (PCX (1) A bitmapped graphics file format that handles monochrome, 2-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 24-bit color and uses RLE to achieve compression ratios of approximately 1.1:1 to 1.5:1. Images with large blocks of solid colors compress best under the RLE method. See PC Paintbrush. :AVY) has produced 125 million self-adhesive, gravure-printed, 34-cent postage stamps This is a list of postage stamps that are especially notable in some way. The best-known stamps:
The commemorative stamps, printed in panes of 20 stamps each, were released at a first-day-of-issue ceremony held yesterday at the Society of Illustrators The Society of Illustrators is a professional society based in New York City, founded in 1901. Other major chapters are in Los Angeles and San Diego. The Society is known for its historic East Side New York headquarters (with huge originals by Maxfield Parrish and others on the in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , as part of the society's Founders Day celebration, marking the organization's 100th anniversary. "Illustration is a unique and historic art form that has attracted some of the finest talent in the country," said Philip M. Neal, chairman and chief executive officer of Avery Dennison. "We are pleased to have produced a stamp pane for the U.S. Postal Service that pays tribute to these great artists." Part of the U.S. Postal Service's classic collection, the American Illustrators first-class stamp pane features works by selected illustrators that were recommended by a panel of experts convened by the Society of Illustrators. The stamp designs include artwork originally used for several purposes, including books, advertisements, magazine covers, murals and posters. All of the illustrators featured on the stamp pane are members of the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. The American Illustrators stamp pane was designed by Carl Herrman of Carlsbad, Calif. The stamps were created by using a five-color printing method, which included four process colors of yellow, magenta, cyan and black, combined with a fifth line color of brown. The American Illustrators commemorative stamp was printed on pressure-sensitive material produced by Avery Dennison's Fasson Roll Division. American Illustrators stamps are now available at post offices throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and through U.S. Postal Service Philatelic phi·lat·e·ly n. The collection and study of postage stamps, postmarks, and related materials; stamp collecting. [French philatélie : Greek phil-, philo-, philo- + Greek Centers. Stamps printed by Avery Dennison and issued in early January included "Farm Flag" and "Statue of Liberty Statue of Liberty great symbolic structure in New York harbor. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] See : America Statue of Liberty perhaps the most famous monument to independence. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] See : Freedom " nondenominated rate- change and 34-cent first-class stamps. Other stamps to be printed by Avery Dennison and issued in 2001 include "Bison," a 21-cent 2nd ounce stamp; "Mount McKinley," an 80-cent international rate stamp; and four 34-cent first-class stamps: "Baseball's Legendary Playing Fields," "Carnivorous Plants," "Looney Tunes, That's All Folks" and "Eid Greetings." Avery Dennison has produced self-adhesive postage stamps for the U.S. Postal Service since 1988, with more than 25 billion printed in the past three years alone. The company prints stamps at its Security Printing Division in Clinton, S.C. Avery Dennison is a global leader in pressure-sensitive technology and innovative self-adhesive solutions for consumer products and label materials. Based in Pasadena, the company had 2000 sales of $3.9 billion. Avery Dennison develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of products for consumer and industrial markets, including Avery-brand office products, Fasson-brand self-adhesive materials, peel-and-stick postage stamps, battery labels, reflective highway safety products, automated retail tag and labeling systems, and specialty tapes and chemicals. Forward-Looking Statements Certain information presented in this news release may constitute "forward-looking" statements. These statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. Actual results and trends may differ materially from historical or expected results depending on a variety of factors, including but not limited to price and availability of raw materials, foreign-exchange rates, worldwide and local economic conditions, financial condition and inventory strategies of customers, acceptance of new products, fluctuations in demand affecting sales to customers, and other matters referred to in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. |
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