Packaging Services: ABS business counts
ANZSIC class 7320, in the Administrative and Support Services division.
- Actively trading businesses in Packaging Services (ANZSIC class 7320) across Australia, June 2025
- 1,052 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, June 2025.
- Actively trading non-employing businesses in Packaging Services (ANZSIC class 7320) across Australia, June 2025
- 560 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, June 2025.
- ABS business entries in Packaging Services (ANZSIC class 7320) across Australia: counted at June 2025 but not June 2024
- 149 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, 2024-25.
- ABS business exits in Packaging Services (ANZSIC class 7320) across Australia: counted at June 2024 but not June 2025
- 151 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, 2024-25.
About these figures
- These ABS figures count actively trading businesses, not workers, sites or venues, each in its main state or territory.
- Entries and exits compare two 30 June counts. They are not counts of openings and closures.
- The ABS adjusts its counts slightly to protect confidentiality, so a small number or a zero is approximate, not proof that no such business exists.
Summary of the ABS class definition
In this class, the ABS counts businesses mainly engaged in packing goods in bottles, cans, cartons, collapsible tubes, plastic sachets, plastic film or bags or other containers or materials on a contract or fee basis.
Examples the ABS lists:
- Apparel and textile folding and packaging service
- Bottling drinking liquid
- Bottling or rebottling wine or spirits
- Bottling other liquid
- Contract packing or filling
- Crating service
- Kit assembling and packaging service
- Packing fresh fruit and vegetables
- Packing pharmaceutical and medical products
- Shrink wrapping service
The ABS counts businesses mainly engaged in this related work in other classes:
- blending wine or spirits are included in the appropriate classes of Group 121 Beverage Manufacturing
- manufacturing drinking liquids are included in the appropriate classes of Division C Manufacturing
- manufacturing pharmaceutical and medical products are included in Class 1841 Human Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Product Manufacturing
The ABS page for class 7320 gives the full definition and what the class leaves out.
By employment size
| Businesses | Count |
|---|---|
| All businesses | 1,052 businesses |
| Non-employing | 560 businesses |
| 1 to 4 employees | 221 businesses |
| 5 to 19 employees | 155 businesses |
| 20 to 199 employees | 110 businesses |
| 200 or more employees | 6 businesses |
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, June 2025. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
By turnover
| Businesses | Count |
|---|---|
| Zero to less than $50k | 221 businesses |
| $50k to less than $200k | 253 businesses |
| $200k to less than $2m | 323 businesses |
| $2m to less than $5m | 107 businesses |
| $5m to less than $10m | 60 businesses |
| $10m or more | 88 businesses |
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 3, June 2025. Checked 16 Oct 2026.
Entries and exits, 2024-25
| Businesses | Count |
|---|---|
| At the start of the year | 1,054 businesses |
| ABS business entries | 149 businesses |
| ABS business exits | 151 businesses |
| At the end of the year | 1,052 businesses |
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, 2024-25. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
By main state or territory
| Businesses | Count |
|---|---|
| New South Wales | 354 businesses |
| Victoria | 303 businesses |
| Queensland | 182 businesses |
| Western Australia | 91 businesses |
| South Australia | 104 businesses |
| Tasmania | 10 businesses |
| Australian Capital Territory | 5 businesses |
| Northern Territory | 3 businesses |
| Other Territories or Currently Unknown | 0 businesses |
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, June 2025. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Sources
Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2: Businesses by main state by industry class by employment size ranges (8165DC02.xlsx). Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, June 2021 to June 2025, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Released 16 December 2025, checked 15 October 2026.
Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 3: Businesses by main state by industry class by turnover size ranges (8165DC03.xlsx). Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, June 2021 to June 2025, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Released 16 December 2025, checked 16 October 2026.
Correspondence, GCCSA 2021 to GCCSA 2026 (CG_GCCSA_2021_GCCSA_2026.csv). Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 4, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Released 22 July 2026, checked 15 October 2026.
Greater Capital City Statistical Areas digital boundary file, 2026 (GCCSA_2026_AUST_SHP_GDA2020.zip). Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 4, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Released 22 July 2026, checked 15 October 2026.
Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), 2006 (Revision 2.0): the detailed classification. Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), 2006 (Revision 2.0), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Released 26 June 2013, checked 16 October 2026.
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