Item 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

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(a) Financial Statements, Financial Statement Schedule and Exhibits

(1)

Financial statements filed as part of this report are listed on the accompanying Index to Financial Statements.

(2)

All financial statement schedules are omitted since the required information is not present or is not present in amounts sufficient to require submission of the schedule, or because the information required is included in the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto.

(3)

Exhibits filed as a part of this report are listed on the accompanying Exhibit Index. Each management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement required to be filed as an exhibit to this Form 10-K is identified as such on the Exhibit Index and incorporated herein by reference.

(b) The exhibits required to be filed by Item 601 of Regulation S-K are set forth on the accompanying Exhibit Index and incorporated herein by reference.

**SIGNATURES **

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Dated: February 24, 2016

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and as of the dates indicated.

**POWER OF ATTORNEY **

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below does hereby constitute and appoint Anne L. Bramman and Susan C. Miller, and each of them, with full power of substitution, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact to act for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign this Annual Report on Form 10-K and any or all amendments or supplements thereto, and to file each of the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in order to effectuate the same as fully, to all intents and purposes, as he or she could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or substitutes, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and as of the dates indicated.

**AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION

INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS **

Data incorporated by reference from the attached portions of the 2015 Annual Report to Shareholders of Avery Dennison Corporation:

Except for the Consolidated Financial Statements, Statement of Management Responsibility for Financial Statements, Management's Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting and Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm listed above, and certain information referred to in Items 1, 5, 6, 7, and 7A of this report that is expressly incorporated herein by reference, our 2015 Annual Report to Shareholders is not to be deemed "filed" as part of this report.

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**AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION

EXHIBIT INDEX

For the Year Ended January 2, 2016 **

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(1)

Unless otherwise noted, the File Number for all filings is File No. 1-7685.

Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement required to be filed as an exhibit to this Form 10-K pursuant to Item 15(b) of Form 10-K.

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Filed herewith.

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