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Packaging involves designing and producing the tin or bottle for a product. Packaging contains two levels. The primary packaging is the container for each individual product. For instance, A&W uses bottle with variety of sizes to fill the root beers. Plastic bottle can prevent leakage problem and can keep it once couldn’t finish it at once. The secondary packaging contains the quality of the product. A&W uses different colours and designs to wrap the bottle to differentiate the function of products. For example, white is for “Diet Root Beer with Cream Soda” and golden is for “Root Beer with Cream Soda”. The difference of packaging designs conveys the characteristics of the brand. Besides, this packaging can provide correct and useful information

Packaging has become key to the success of a product as proven by kellogg’s cereal, many alcohol brands, and almost as many toilet paper brands. Thomas Hine’s article What’s in a Package explains the reasoning behind packaging why it is an influential as it is. Without packaging most products would be nothing. Companies have learned how to appeal to human emotions in order to increase the sales of their products. These are things that the average person does not even realize catches them because it is done subconsciously. Without the amount of time that is put into designing packages most products would not be as informative as they are now. Customers would have to spend more time looking at things to figure out if that is really what they want. With the competitive atmosphere packaging has created it makes shopping that much quicker and rakes in more profits for the companies. Thomas Hine has given people an inside look at how important packaging really is and has shed a completely different like on consumerism

Consumers are creatures of habit: they buy the same products time and time again, and such is their familiarity with big brands, and the colors and logos that represent them, that they can register a brand they like with barely any conscious thought process. The packaging of consumer products is therefore a crucial vehicle for delivering the brand and the product into our shopping baskets.

In Tanzania, there are various research studies on the impact of packaging as a tool of attracting customers. Also, its importance made government to set a platform of setting and improving the packaging standards at the Ministry of Trade and Industry under Packaging Technology Center (PTC). The least we can report here, is the deliberations made by stakeholders in the East African Community (EAC) Dried Fruits and Vegetables Region Stakeholders Workshop in Morogoro 2010, it was felt that for a Tanzanian business to penetrate into foreign markets the aspects of packaging are vital

After passing stages of the design process and discussions with the brand owners about the structure of the packaging design in accordance with the characteristics of the food; the visual identity (logo, graphic images, colors and typography); the ease and cheapness of the cost of print production of packaging design and the convenience brought by the target audience, finally selected the three designs below is considered best meet design criteria.

To differentiate the brand from competition, labels and packaging would be used. Moreover, all visual communication tools and promotional items featuring the brand logo and

Unilever, founded in 1929, is an Anglo–Dutch multinational consumer goods company. Its headquarters are in London, England and in Rotterdam, Netherlands as well. It is the world's third-largest consumer goods company as of 2012. It is also one of the oldest multinational companies in the world, its products include food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. And these products are available in 190 countries.

“The post-war suburbanization, growth in families and income, the birth of national TV advertising, consolidation of consumer product companies, and the explosion of national retailers, all led to a single new development, the creation of brands to support these changes in consumer lifestyle (Shear, 2009).” Package design or brand creation was greatly influenced by this drastic change in consumer lifestyle (Shear, 2009). Designers started using enticing slogans such as “quick ‘n’ easy” or “heat ‘n’ serve” along with their products such as pump action bottles, ready-made packs etc. all to catch the eye of their would-be-buyer (Young & Young, 2004; pp.39 – 41). The actual product wasn’t that much different when it came to face value, that is why the packaging that held it would have to be recognisable and communicate to the consumer that the product they are about to buy is better than any competitor out there (Young & Young, 2004; pp.39 – 41).

In contrast to the American market, the emergence of new competitors on the European market seemed to have the potential of a much more powerful impact. The European customer was not that “educated” about the product and many regarded packaging supplies as “expendable commodities”, making the price in this market a key driving determinant of purchase choice. In this context, the decision to diversify by enlarging the product line into uncoated bubble packaging material would have a lesser effect on firm’s image. Also, faced

has a market reach and presence in over 100 countries and operates out of 50. Offices

The essay reveals the concept about the importance of labeling and packaging in marketing. Packaging and labeling is the methodology of enfolding and savings the items from storage, shipping and for future utilization. Customer while purchasing the product consider the quality of the product, but apart from that also put attention

An important tool in marketing, to a successful product, is its company brand name. Today the impact on branding a product has greatly increased the interest of the researchers and the academics. A brand name of a product arouses emotion, memories and a close relationship with the customer. On the other hand, global branding has a greater impact on the customers throughout the world. When it comes to globalization, the growing and expanding of a business solely depends on the brand of the product.

However today, it is not enough to optimize the cost of packaging. They are aware that they must offer a product concept in an innovative packaging to meet the new challenges of a saturated market, to differentiate from the new generation of consumers and fight global economic threats.

Hindustan Unilever Limited which has a heritage of over 80 years of corporate existence in India is one of the largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company in India. It has a rich history, with a belief in values and an eye on growth. This approach has helped its business grow. They build their brands and develop products based on the customer insights, innovation and relentless marketing and design. The company is committed to reduce the environmental footprint and increase its positive social impact making sustainable living a commonplace.

In the image below is an image with simple packaging which MUJI is known for, MUJI wants the consumer to cherish more of the product than the packaging itself.