The three largest metropolitan economies (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago) produce more than such countries as Poland, Belgium, Sweden, and Taiwan, to name a few. New York ranks as the 14 th largest economy in the world, ahead of Mexico and South Korea, which have GDPs in excess of $1 trillion.
Description: A program that focuses on the application of scientific, technological, design, and business principles to the development of packages and packaging materials, including raw material production, conversion of raw materials into usable forms, design, distribution, and post-use recycling and reuse.
The purpose of product packaging is to protect the product from damage. Product packaging not only protects the product during transit from the manufacturer to the retailer, but it also prevents damage while the product sits on retail shelves. Most products have some form of packaging. For example, soups must have a container and package while apples may have packaging for transport but not to sell the product from the produce department of the local grocery store.