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Product & Service

Semester 2 Packaging
Marketing Management
Part 1
Definition

Product Packaging Service Packaging

“All the activities of designing & Service packaging refers to all activities
producing the container for a product” required to be added to deliver the core
product or extend the core product
- Philip Kotler
experience.

Packaging is the science, art and


Packaging material filled and used at the
technology of enclosing or protecting
point of sale to extend the core value
products for distribution, storage, sale,
proposition
and use.
Roles of Product & Service Packaging

Customer Experience = Product Packaging + Service Packaging

• Branding & Visibility • Customer Product Evaluation


• Storage & Usage • Buying Experience
• Transportation & Logistics • Usage & Ownership Experience
• Information & Compliance • Loyalty & Retention
Product Packaging for Retail
• Brand positioning • Visibility on store shelves
• Convey brand image through visual design • Differentiate from competition
• Strengthen brand proposition through • Aid customers’ discovery process
promotional designs • Maximise visibility with optimal stacking
• Facilitate brand recall with reminder visibility • Storage Efficiency
at usage location
• Facilitate stacking (weight capacity)
• Product information
• Maximise space utilization
• Product content, expiry, origin etc
• Minimize weight
• Usage tips & options
• Ensure product safety till expiry date
• Product usage
• Design & form factor to improve usage
experience
• Design to facilitate home storage & re-usage
Service Packaging for Retail
• Customer Decision-Making • Ownership experience
• Encourage product demo, trial & testing • Product guides & handbooks (physical &
(special tester packaging, demo staff) digital)
• Provide financing facilities • Digital apps & interfaces
• Facilitate purchase logistics • Warranty, maintenance & servicing packages
• Shopping experience • Loyalty & referral programs
• Shopping location conveniences to encourage • Upsell & buy-back offers
walk-ins (parking, water etc)
• Product / brand specific conveniences to
imbibe “pride of purchase” (branded carry-
bags etc)
• Merchandising & add-on products (physical &
digital)

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