of the exchange of furnishing units 14 is carried out in each case according to the remaining adjustments of apparatus 10 subject to the containers to be furnished and the necessary furnishing type in this way apparatus 10 can quickly and easily be changed over from a glue labeling to a direct printing labeling so that the different containers and their furnishings can be processed without extensive processes for changeover by apparatus 10 in the present embodiment furnishing units 14 have a separate drive which is connected with the main drive of apparatus 10 furthermore the power supply for furnishing units 14 can be carried out by an inductive power supply rail systems or cable connections would be also possible not shown in the figures which supply furnishing units 14 with energy fig3 shows maintenance area 24 the furnishing units can automatically approach maintenance area 24 if an error is detected on furnishing units 14 thereby an error message is transmitted from apparatus 10 simultaneously to the coupled furnishing unit 14 and to storage area 20 by means of this error message furnishing unit 14 uncouples itself automatically and transports itself into maintenance area 24 via transport unit 23 a signal is transmitted simultaneously to storage area 20 the storage area transports a functional furnishing unit 14 for exchange via the feeding and withdrawing unit 22 to apparatus 10 this functional furnishing unit 14 is of the same type such as defect unit 26 such error messages can for example arise in such a case when.