---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000008818-25-000001"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVY"
cik: "0000008818"
company_name: "Avery Dennison Corp"
filed_at: "2025-01-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T19:18:23.062270+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Martha N. Sullivan resigns from Avery Dennison board effective Dec 31, 2024

## Summary
- Martha N. Sullivan, a 12-year Board member, resigned effective December 31, 2024.
- Resignation is to pursue new professional opportunities, not due to any disagreement with Avery Dennison.
- No replacement named; Board size reduced by one.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000008818-25-000001
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVY
- cik: 0000008818
- company_name: Avery Dennison Corp
- filed_at: 2025-01-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8818/000000881825000001/0000008818-25-000001-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8818/000000881825000001/avy-20241227.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000008818-25-000001.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Martha N. Sullivan resigned as Director at Avery Dennison Corp.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On December 27, 2024, Martha N. Sullivan, a 12-year member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Avery Dennison Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), notified the Company’s Executive Chairman, its Chief Executive Officer, the Board’s Lead Independent Director and the Board’s Governance Committee Chair of her decision to resign from the Board effective December 31, 2024 to pursue new professional opportunities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8818/000000881825000001/0000008818-25-000001-index.htm

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