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General introduction 3 1.1.2. Marketing roles of packaging Despite the generally negative view on packaging in light of the environment, packaging fulfils a number of key roles in consumer markets and their corresponding supply-chains. From a marketing perspective, primary packaging plays a pivoting role in the product benefit proposition and communication thereof. This primary packaging is defined as the packaging that surrounds the product in the retail environment (e.g., the bottle surrounding soda drink), and is also referred to as sales packaging, retail packaging or consumer packaging. The marketing role of packaging is of great importance for highly competitive Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), which are defined as single (or limited) use, low priced consumer products. They consist to a large extent of food products and other daily-use consumer goods (
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