Avery Dennison Mourns Death of Charles D. Miller

Recognizing the company’s large opportunities outside the United States—among his earliest actions as CEO was renaming the company Avery International—Miller led a vigorous global expansion effort. Throughout his tenure as CEO, he expanded operations and sales in Europe, South America and Asia. His most prescient actions led to the creation of the pressure-sensitive labeling industry in China. He established the company’s first manufacturing operations there in 1994 and, to ensure growth in the use of pressure-sensitive materials, he founded the Avery Dennison Label Converting College near Shanghai to train local commercial printers in their use.