| 1. Packing of goods implies placing them in suitable packets to facilitate their easy and safe handling, to ensure their quantity and quality, to protect them from any kind of damage. | Pacaking facilitates advertising. It lends individuality or identification to the products. It can be used to educate the consumers by telling them about the different uses of the product or the different methods of use. |
| 2. Packing is also used for providing additional information to the consumers about the products such as contents, price, the date of manufacture, date of expiry, brand name, etc. | Packaging must be convenient, attractive, protective and economical. Besides being an ancillary service to the trading activity, packaging is fast developing in a very profitable independent industry |