Avery Dennison Names Susan C. Miller as Vice President and General Counsel

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE:AVY) announced today the promotion of Susan C. Miller to the position of vice president and general counsel, effective June 1, 2007. As general counsel, Miller will assume overall responsibility for general legal matters affecting Company operations, and management responsibility for all attorneys in the Law Department offices in Brea, Calif., Concord, Ohio, Hong Kong, Leiden, The Netherlands, and Buenos Aires. She will join the Corporate Leadership Team and continue to be a member of the Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions Committee. Miller will continue to report to Robert G. van Schoonenberg, executive vice president, chief legal officer and secretary to the Board of Directors. "Sue has been an important contributor to Avery Dennison’s growth during the last 16 years,” said Dean A. Scarborough, president and chief executive officer. "She brings a wealth of knowledge about the Company and its operations to her new position and will play a major role in shaping our corporate and legal strategies in the highly competitive global marketplace.” Miller joined Avery Dennison in 1991 as senior counsel responsible for corporate and securities law matters. She moved to Hong Kong to establish the Company's Law Department office in Hong Kong, and served as senior counsel, Asia Pacific, from 1995 to 1998. In this role, Miller was a key member of the Asia Pacific management team and played a significant role in a number of start-up operations and growth initiatives in China and Southeast Asia. In 1998, Miller was promoted to assistant general counsel and relocated to the Corporate office where she joined the Law Department leadership team and became a key participant in Company acquisitions and divestitures. She also served as principal attorney for various Corporate departments, Performance Polymers, RFID Division, and the Avery Research Center. Avery Dennison is a global leader in pressure-sensitive labeling materials, office products and retail tag, ticketing and branding systems. Based in Pasadena, Calif., Avery Dennison is a FORTUNE 500 company with 2006 sales of $5.6 billion. Avery Dennison employs approximately 22,000 individuals in 49 countries worldwide who apply the Company's technologies to develop, manufacture and market a wide range of products for both consumer and industrial markets. Products offered by Avery Dennison include Avery-brand office products and graphics imaging media, Fasson-brand self-adhesive materials, peel-and-stick postage stamps, reflective highway safety products, labels for a wide variety of automotive, industrial and durable goods applications, brand identification and supply chain management products for the retail and apparel industries, and specialty tapes and polymers.