FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - November 2, 2001

A new four-page, full-color brochure profiling AVERY DENNISON InfoChain Express^®™, the Web-based supply chain management solution, is now available from Avery Dennison Retail Information Services. Accompanying the brochure are separate data sheets targeted to three major user categories — apparel manufacturers, retailers and retail vendors.

Avery Dennison InfoChain Express^®™ seamlessly connects trading partners, including apparel manufacturers, retailers, vendors and freight consolidators, and enables them to exchange and access data in real time. It expedites information flow among supply chain trading partners, eliminating the need for multiple, linear EDI systems. InfoChain Express^®™ users can transmit and receive purchase orders electronically, scan merchandise to facilitate error-free packing, print price tickets and carton labels on site or at service bureaus, and generate and transmit advance shipping notices (ASNs).

In addition to complete product information, the brochure contains a full-page diagram that depicts the InfoChain Express^®™ network and the links it establishes among various trading partners. Also included is a bulleted list summarizing the product's key user benefits.

Avery Dennison Retail Information Services offers worldwide solutions to industry for product identification. Products and services include Web-based supply chain management solutions, service bureaus, in-house imprinting systems and software, fully and partially preprinted tags, labels and label forms, sequential bar code tags and labels, electronic article surveillance (EAS) tags and labels, fastener products and consulting services. Major markets include retail, apparel, softlines and hardgoods.