NEPC trains exporters on product packaging

The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has trained exporters on how to package and label their products for export destinations, including Europe.

Speaking at the training session in Abuja yesterday, the Executive Director of NEPC, Dr Ezra Yakusak, said the training became necessary as a means of facilitating Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) efforts to overcome challenges posed by Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and in particular packaging and labelling for export.

He said the training “has been carefully designed to enable product assessment, transfer of technical skills in packaging and labelling, a unique opportunity for the SME exporters to receive hands-on practical solutions, and an action plan for each of their products.”

Yakusak noted that the council, during an exhibition for Nigerian women exporters and entrepreneurs in the non-oil export space, noticed inherent gaps in Nigeria’s products including poor or inappropriate packaging arising from incorrect cushioning materials, mismatch sizes, misbranding, wrong labelling, incorrect or illegible graphics, infringement on trademarks and lack of barcodes.