secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Avery Dennison Corp (AVY)
CIK:        0000008818
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-06-03T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000008818-24-000013
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Avery Dennison appoints former WestRock CFO Ward Dickson to board, as Audit Chair
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- Ward Dickson appointed to Board effective June 1, 2024; named Chair of Audit Committee and member of Finance Committee.
- Dickson was EVP and CFO of WestRock Company ($20.3B revenue) from 2015-2021, and previously held finance roles at Cisco Systems.
- Received prorated grant of 753 restricted stock units vesting on first anniversary of grant date.
- Appointment strengthens financial and packaging-industry expertise on the board.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8818/000000881824000013/0000008818-24-000013-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8818/000000881824000013/avy-20240531.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000008818-24-000013

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